Julius Garcia – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Mon, 09 Jul 2018 01:42:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Do You Trust This Computer https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2018/07/do-you-trust-this-computer Mon, 09 Jul 2018 01:42:45 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/07/do-you-trust-this-computer

Elon Musk Wants You to Watch ‘Do You Trust This Computer?’ in Memory of Stephen Hawking, and It’s Free.

Because “nothing will affect the future of humanity more than digital super-intelligence,” Elon Musk thinks you should watch Chris Paine’s artificial-intelligence movie “Do You Trust This Computer?” And, wouldn’t you know it, the film is streaming for free until later tonight.

Here’s the synopsis: “Science fiction has long anticipated the rise of machine intelligence. Today, a new generation of self-learning computers has begun to reshape every aspect of our lives. Incomprehensible amounts of data are being created, interpreted, and fed back to us in a tsunami of apps, personal assistants, smart devices, and targeted advertisements. Virtually every industry on earth is experiencing this transformation, from job automation to medical diagnostics, even military operations. ‘Do You Trust This Computer?’ explores the promises and perils of our new era. Will A.I. usher in an age of unprecedented potential, or prove to be our final invention?”

Nothing will affect the future of humanity more than digital super-intelligence. Watch Chris Paine’s new AI movie for free until Sunday night at http://doyoutrustthiscomputer.org/watch

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Four cures for automation anxiety https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2018/06/four-cures-for-automation-anxiety Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:22:32 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/06/four-cures-for-automation-anxiety

Robert E. Litan introduces four solutions to concerns about automation’s impact on wages.

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Exclusive footage of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2018/05/exclusive-footage-of-boston-dynamics-atlas-robot Sun, 13 May 2018 17:02:41 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/05/exclusive-footage-of-boston-dynamics-atlas-robot

Boston Dynamics’ Marc Raibert shows off exclusive footage of the Atlas robot. It runs, can move boxes, and much much more.

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You and AI https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2018/05/you-and-ai Sun, 13 May 2018 12:42:43 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/05/you-and-ai

Demis Hassabis, world-renowned British neuroscientist, artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, explores the groundbreaking research driving the application of AI to scientific discovery.

The talk launches the Royal Society’s 2018 series: You and AI, a collaborative effort to help people understand what machine learning and AI are, how these technologies work and the ways they may affect our lives.

For more information on the event series: http://ow.ly/PKug30jWEYV

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Google Just Revealed Game-Changing Artificial Intelligence https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2018/05/google-just-revealed-game-changing-artificial-intelligence Sun, 13 May 2018 00:02:23 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/05/google-just-revealed-game-changing-artificial-intelligence

During Google’s tenth annual Google I/O developers conference CEO Sundar Pichai unveiled a feature for the Google Assistant that will allow it to make phone calls on users’ behalf with realistic sounding voices. This feature is still under development but is a major accomplishment in artificial intelligence.

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Mars Colony Would Be a Hedge Against World War III, Elon Musk Says https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2018/03/mars-colony-would-be-a-hedge-against-world-war-iii-elon-musk-says Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:22:37 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/03/mars-colony-would-be-a-hedge-against-world-war-iii-elon-musk-says

Humanity’s brutal and bellicose past provides ample justification for pursuing settlements on the moon and Mars, Elon Musk says.

The billionaire entrepreneur has long stressed that he founded SpaceX in 2002 primarily to help make humanity a multiplanet species — a giant leap that would render us much less vulnerable to extinction.

Human civilization faces many grave threats over the long haul, from asteroid strikes and climate change to artificial intelligence run amok, Musk has said over the years. And he recently highlighted our well-documented inability to get along with each other as another frightening factor. [The BFR: SpaceX’s Mars Colony Plan in Images].

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Fourth Industrial Revolution https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2018/03/fourth-industrial-revolution Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:22:47 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/03/fourth-industrial-revolution

We need the arts to stimulate debate over the impact of technological breakthroughs on society.

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Amazon’s automated grocery store of the future opens Monday https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2018/01/amazons-automated-grocery-store-of-the-future-opens-monday Sun, 21 Jan 2018 20:02:33 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/01/amazons-automated-grocery-store-of-the-future-opens-monday

By Jeffrey Dastin

SEATTLE (Reuters) — Amazon.com Inc will open its checkout-free grocery store to the public on Monday after more than a year of testing, the company said, moving forward on an experiment that could dramatically alter brick-and-mortar retail.

The Seattle store, known as Amazon Go, relies on cameras and sensors to track what shoppers remove from the shelves, and what they put back. Cash registers and checkout lines become superfluous — customers are billed after leaving the store using credit cards on file.

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TEDGlobal: The computer that can smell explosives https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/tedglobal-the-computer-that-can-smell-explosives Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:42:30 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/tedglobal-the-computer-that-can-smell-explosives

Nigerian Oshi Agabi has unveiled a computer based not on silicon but on mice neurons at the TEDGlobal conference in Tanzania.

The system has been trained to recognise the smell of explosives and could be used to replace traditional airport security, he said.

Eventually the modem-sized device — dubbed Koniku Kore — could provide the brain for future robots.

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This new AI-composed pop song sounds like something from a Spotify playlist https://russian.lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/this-new-ai-composed-pop-song-sounds-like-something-from-a-spotify-playlist Tue, 22 Aug 2017 00:22:42 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/08/this-new-ai-composed-pop-song-sounds-like-something-from-a-spotify-playlist

Note by note, machines are learning to express themselves. But if you think the fusion of artificial intelligence and music is bound to produce soulless, robotic-sounding tunes, Taryn Southern urges you to give our weird future another listen. The singer and internet personality is prepping what she calls the world’s first AI-composed album, I AM AI. Of course, others have dabbled in AI-generated music, and the finished product is not entirely computer-composed (the lyrics and vocal melodies were written by Southern), but the human intervention is minimal. The output isn’t exactly Grammy material, but it’s not far off from something you might hear on a pop playlist on Spotify.

Using AI music creation software by Amper, Southern plugged in various parameters like mood, style, and tempo to auto-compose the underlying chords and instrumentation. The album will even be distributed online through Stem, a platform that allows royalties to be divvied up between various creators. So not only will machines write music in the future, they might even get paid.

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