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May 7, 2018
The Road to Killer AI: ML + Blockchain + IOT + Drones == Skynet?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: bitcoin, drones, Elon Musk, robotics/AI
Lately, there has been a lot of concern about the recent explosion of AI, and how it could reach the point of 1) being more intelligent than humans, and 2) that it could decide that it no longer needs us and could in fact, take over the Earth.
Physicist Stephen Hawking famously told the BBC: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Billionaire Elon Musk has said that he thinks AI is the “biggest existential threat” to the human race.
Computers running the latest AI have already beaten humans at games ranging from Chess to Go to esports games (which is interesting, because this is a case where AI could be better than humans at playing games which were built as software from the ground up, unlike Chess and Go, which were developer before the computer age).
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May 2, 2018
Elon Musk: Automation Will Force Governments to Introduce Universal Basic Income
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: economics, Elon Musk, government, robotics/AI
Recently, Elon Musk had the chance to share his thoughts on universal basic income (UBI) at the World Government Summit in Dubai. At the Summit, Musk had the opportunity to talk about the future, and the challenges the world will face in the next hundred years – including artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and the job displacement expected to come with it.
When asked about the challenges civilization is set to face in the near future, Musk began by noting the threat of artificial intelligences that surpass humanity.
May 1, 2018
8 men and women once sealed themselves inside this enormous fake Mars colony for 2 years — here’s what it’s like today
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, habitats, space travel
A decade before Elon Musk founded his fast-rising rocket company, SpaceX, or spoke publicly about colonizing Mars, a different billionaire captivated the world with Biosphere 2.
Ed Bass, an oil tycoon, spent about $250 million to build and operate that facility as a proof-of-concept for a permanent, self-sustaining habitat on Mars. Four men and four women sealed themselves inside the airtight space in September 1991 and emerged two years later.
The experimental space-age facility served as the stage for a spectacular and controversial story of human endurance.
Apr 27, 2018
Elon Musk Shares Stunning Footage of Comet’s Surface Passing Rosetta
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared footage from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta satellite, which passed by Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in 2016. The archived footage shows spectacular sights from space, and some of the most majestic aspects of our solar system.
Apr 20, 2018
SpaceX will build Mars rockets on an island full of history
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
Elon Musk’s planned BFR Mars rocket finds a home in Los Angeles. It’s oddly fitting for what could be a very historic spacecraft.
Apr 16, 2018
SpaceX Will Make Massive, Mars-Bound ‘BFR’ Rocket at L.A. Port
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. will build its giant in-development rocket, nicknamed “BFR,” at the Port of Los Angeles.
Apr 16, 2018
Elon Musk’s latest SpaceX idea involves a party balloon and bounce house
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, habitats, space travel
Elon Musk took to Twitter Sunday night to announce a new recovery method for an upper stage SpaceX rocket. A balloon — a “giant party balloon” to quote him directly — will ferry part of a rocket to a bounce house. Seriously.
If anyone else proposed this idea they would be ignored, but Elon Musk lately has a way of turning crazy ideas into reality.
It was just in 2012 that SpaceX launched and landed its first rocket and now the company is doing it with rockets significantly larger. And then early this year SpaceX made a surprise announcement that it would attempt to use a high-speed boat and large net to catch part of rocket. And it worked after a failed first attempt.
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Apr 14, 2018
New Trojan Malware Could Mind-Control Neural Networks
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: cybercrime/malcode, Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space
Each new technological breakthrough comes seemingly prepackaged with a new way for hackers to kill us all: self-driving cars, space-based weapons, and even nuclear security systems are vulnerable to someone with the right knowledge and a bit of code. Now, deep-learning artificial intelligence looks like the next big threat, and not because it will gain sentience to murder us with robots (as Elon Musk has warned): a group of computer scientists from the US and China recently published a paper proposing the first-ever trojan for a neural network.
Neural networks are the primary tool used in AI to accomplish “deep learning,” which has allowed AIs to master complex tasks like playing chess and Go. Neural networks function similar to a human brain, which is how they got the name. Information passes through layers of neuron-like connections, which then analyze the information and spit out a response. These networks can pull off difficult tasks like image recognition, including identifying faces and objects, which makes them useful for self-driving cars (to identify stop signs and pedestrians) and security (which may involve identifying an authorized user’s face). Neural networks are relatively novel pieces of tech and aren’t commonly used by the public yet but, as deep-learning AI becomes more prevalent, it will likely become an appealing target for hackers.
The trojan proposed in the paper, called “PoTrojan,” could be included in a neural network product either from the beginning or inserted later as a slight modification. Like a normal trojan, it looks like a normal piece of the software, doesn’t copy itself, and doesn’t do much of anything… Until the right triggers happen. Once the right inputs are activated in a neural network, this trojan hijacks the operation and injects its own train of “thought,” making sure the network spits out the answer it wants. This could take the form of rejecting the face of a genuine user and denying them access to their device, or purposefully failing to recognize a stop sign to create a car crash.
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