Archive for the ‘Elon Musk’ category: Page 240
Apr 8, 2018
Elon Musk Urges People to Watch Chris Paine’s A.I. Movie While It’s Free
Posted by Amberley Levine in categories: education, Elon Musk, robotics/AI
“Do You Trust this Computer?” is a documentary about artificial intelligence and it’s free to stream until tonight.
Chris Paine, the man behind “Who Killed the Electric Car” that looked at General Motors and Tesla, has a new documentary called “Do You Trust This Computer” that looks at how artificial intelligence could threaten the future of humanity. Elon Musk shared the video on Twitter.
Apr 7, 2018
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Has Been Streaming Launches Without Permission
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
Apr 6, 2018
We will all serve under an immortal ROBOT DICTATOR‘, says Elon Musk
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: education, Elon Musk, life extension, robotics/AI
Elon Musk has famously compared AI to ‘summoning the devil’.
Now the Tesla billionaire claims the technology could lead to the creation of immortal robot leaders from which humanity can never escape.
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Apr 3, 2018
Elon Musk and Peter Diamandis
Posted by Bill Kemp in categories: business, Elon Musk, life extension, Peter Diamandis, singularity, sustainability, transportation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f22CGnnhmCI
Elon Reeve Musk is a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, engineer, inventor and investor. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity as well as co-chairman of OpenAI.
He is the founder of SpaceX and a co-founder of Zip2, PayPal, and Tesla Motors. He has also envisioned a conceptual high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop and has proposed a VTOL supersonic jet aircraft with electric fan propulsion. He is the wealthiest person in Los Angeles.
Apr 1, 2018
How does science fiction influence the real world?
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: computing, Elon Musk, space travel, virtual reality
The tech-industry is led by sci-fi nerds who want to create the things they read about, or saw on screen.
We all stand to benefit, provided that is, they can avoid the ethical pitfalls depicted in science fiction.
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Mar 30, 2018
Elon Musk’s Neuralink files permit to build biological research lab
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biological, Elon Musk, neuroscience
Elon Musk’s neurotechnology startup Neuralink filed for permits to build an in-house machine shop and a biological testing laboratory for its facility in San Francisco last year.
The documentation on the company’s 2017 permits was retrieved by Gizmodo, which was able to access Neuralink’s public records. An excerpt of a letter submitted by Neuralink executive Jared Birchall on February 2017 to the city’s planning department gives some clues about the company’s plans for the facility’s proposed machine shop and animal testing lab.
Mar 29, 2018
FCC approves SpaceX plan for 4,425-satellite broadband network
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites
SpaceX has a green light from the FCC to launch a network of thousands of satellites blanketing the globe with broadband. And you won’t have too long to wait — on a cosmic scale, anyway. Part of the agreement is that SpaceX launch half of its proposed 4,425 satellites within six years.
The approval of SpaceX’s application was not seriously in doubt after last month’s memo from FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who was excited at the prospect of the first U.S.-based company being authorized to launch a constellation like this.
“I have asked my colleagues to join me in supporting this application and moving to unleash the power of satellite constellations to provide high-speed Internet to rural Americans,” he wrote at the time. He really is pushing that “digital divide” thing. Not that Elon Musk disagrees:
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Mar 29, 2018
Astro litter-picker launches to help clean up 7,600 tonnes of space junk
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
T he world’s most advanced litter-picker will be launched into space next week to clean up floating debris which is threatening satellites and the International Space Station (ISS).
Surrey University has designed a spacecraft which can grab space junk then pull it into Earth’s atmosphere where it is burned up.
The little craft, named RemoveDebris, is due to launch from the Kennedy Space Centre on Monday, on board one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets.
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Mar 28, 2018
Mars Colony Would Be a Hedge Against World War III, Elon Musk Says
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, climatology, Elon Musk, existential risks, robotics/AI, space travel, sustainability
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].