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Will AI really destroy humanity?
28Jun By adminNo Comments
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Will AI really destroy humanity?

[ad_1] The warnings are coming from all angles: artificial intelligence poses an existential risk to humanity and must be shackled before it is too late.But what are these disaster scenarios and how are machines supposed to wipe out humanity? - Paperclips of doom - Most disaster scenarios start in the same place: machines will outstrip human capacities, escape human control and refuse to be switched off."Once we have machines that have a self-preservation goal, we are in trouble," AI academic Yoshua Bengio told an event this month.But because these machines do not yet exist, imagining how they could doom humanity is often left to philosophy and science fiction.Philosopher Nick Bostrom has written about an "intelligence explosion" he says will happen when superintelligent machines begin ...
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Alan Turing awardee Yann LeCun says fears of AI threatening humanity are “preposterously ridiculous”
16Jun By adminNo Comments
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Alan Turing awardee Yann LeCun says fears of AI threatening humanity are “preposterously ridiculous”

[ad_1] The debate around the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) is at an all-time high as the European Union passed the AI Regulation bill on Wednesday. For months, many prominent people like Elon Musk and Sam Altman as well as two of the three Godfathers of AI, Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, have been protesting the unprecedented rise of AI and have called for government regulation in space raising concerns of a superintelligent AI causing the extinction of humanity. However, the third Godfather of AI, Yann LeCun, has shunned these fears and has called them “preposterously ridiculous”.Professor LeCun also won the Alan Turing Award in 2018 along with Hinton and Bengio, and they are collectively regarded as the Godfathers of AI. However, LeCun has a different opinion on AI th...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: China warns of AI risks, Elon Musk as Indian groom and more
31May By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: China warns of AI risks, Elon Musk as Indian groom and more

[ad_1] The field of artificial intelligence is one of huge extremes. While on one end, companies like Google and Microsoft are rolling out AI products virtually every day, on the other hand, major protests are taking place that want the rise of AI to be halted. And these protests include major AI researchers including the father of AI Geoffrey Hinton and the man that started the AI craze, the founder and CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman. In a development to the protests, today China also called for security measures against AI, highlighting its risks. In a separate, lighter vein, a digital artist used AI to reimagine Elon Musk as an Indian groom. This and more in our daily AI roundup. Let us take a look.China warns of AI risksThe ruling party of China, the Chinese Communist Party, called for ma...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Google planning AI ads, AI jobs growing fast, more
18May By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Google planning AI ads, AI jobs growing fast, more

[ad_1] There is never a boring day when it comes to the AI world. Every single day, some new technological breakthrough reimagines our current capabilities. And alongside, influential personalities continue to share concerns on how the rise of AI can be the doom of us all. And somewhere in between, AI does something funny or awesome that keeps social media busy for the entire day. And today was no different as reports revealed that Google is working on AI-generated ads to help companies save costs on marketing via Google. A World Economic Forum report highlights that the AI Specialist job will be the fastest-growing jobs in 2023. And an AI artist uses Midjourney to imagine popular celebrities as elderlies. This and more in our daily AI roundup. Let us take a look. Google plans to create...
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Scientists warn of AI dangers but don’t agree on solutions
4May By adminNo Comments
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Scientists warn of AI dangers but don’t agree on solutions

[ad_1] Computer scientists who helped build the foundations of today's artificial intelligence technology are warning of its dangers, but that doesn't mean they agree on what those dangers are or how to prevent them.Humanity's survival is threatened when "smart things can outsmart us,” so-called Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton said at a conference Wednesday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It may keep us around for a while to keep the power stations running,” Hinton said. “But after that, maybe not.” After retiring from Google so he could speak more freely, the 75-year-old Hinton said he's recently changed his views about the reasoning capabilities of the computer systems he's spent a lifetime researching.“These things will have learned from us, by reading all the novels t...
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Godfather of AI says he REGRETS his life’s work, quits Google to warn of AI danger
2May By adminNo Comments
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Godfather of AI says he REGRETS his life’s work, quits Google to warn of AI danger

[ad_1] When it comes to the field of artificial intelligence, three pioneers stand above the rest. Often collectively known as the Godfathers of AI, they are Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, and Geoffrey Hinton. Hinton, in particular, is viewed as a leading figure in the field of deep learning and has published an important paper on the backpropagation algorithm for training multi-layer neural networks. However, in a shocking move, he recently quit his job at Google so he could speak more freely about the risks of AI. In a recent interview, he even said that a part of him regretted all the work he did in the field of artificial intelligence now.In a conversation with The New York Times, Hinton said, highlighting his regret, “I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn't done it, somebo...
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Evil intelligence! 5 big AI DANGERS that can really hurt you badly
4Apr By adminNo Comments
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Evil intelligence! 5 big AI DANGERS that can really hurt you badly

[ad_1] In many ways, the introduction of OpenAI's ChatGPT and other GPT-based tools have become a watershed moment for technology. Now, artificial intelligence can not just understand basic commands and respond to it, it can also think and generate diverse sets of information and give solutions to problems. This makes AI powerful, perhaps too powerful for the good of humanity. And a lot of people are raising their voices around this concern. Recently, Future of Life Institute started a petition to pause all AI activities till a better regulation framework can be created. Some of the notable signatories include Elon Musk, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, Turing Award-winning AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio among others. So, what exactly are the risks people are worried about? Check the 5 threats ...
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