Krys Hyff – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Fri, 25 Mar 2022 13:03:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 More than 300 new hyperscale datacentres in development globally https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/03/more-than-300-new-hyperscale-datacentres-in-development-globally https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/03/more-than-300-new-hyperscale-datacentres-in-development-globally#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2022 13:03:35 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/03/more-than-300-new-hyperscale-datacentres-in-development-globally

Regardless of Pandemics, Wars, Supply chain shocks…the Planets digital brain capacity continues its near exponential growth.

When added to the 728 hyperscale datacentres that were in operation at the end of 2021 and factoring in [the] many new datacentre plans that will be announced over the next two to three years, we forecast that by the end of 2026 there will be an installed base of nearly 1,200 hyperscale datacentres around the world.

“Almost 40% of the world’s operational hyperscale datacentres are located in the US, and the bulk of the developments in the pipeline will also be US-based, with China and Ireland name-checked as the second and third countries with the most new builds planned.” The future looks bright for hyperscale operators, with double-digit annual growth in total revenues supported in large part by cloud revenues that will be growing in the 20–30% per year range,”


The number of hyperscale datacentre facilities in operation across the world is on course to hit the 1,200 mark by the end of 2026, according to forecast data shared by Synergy Research Group.

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AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/03/ai-suggested-40000-new-possible-chemical-weapons-in-just-six-hours Fri, 18 Mar 2022 21:22:18 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/03/ai-suggested-40000-new-possible-chemical-weapons-in-just-six-hours

For me, the concern was just how easy it was to do. A lot of the things we used are out there for free. You can go and download a toxicity dataset from anywhere. If you have somebody who knows how to code in Python and has some machine learning capabilities, then in probably a good weekend of work, they could build something like this generative model driven by toxic datasets. So that was the thing that got us really thinking about putting this paper out there; it was such a low barrier of entry for this type of misuse.


AI could be just as effective in developing biochemical weapons as it is in identifying helpful new drugs, researchers warn.

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AI computer maker Graphcore unveils 3D chip, promises 500-trillion-parameter ‘ultra-intelligence’ machine https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/03/ai-computer-maker-graphcore-unveils-3d-chip-promises-500-trillion-parameter-ultra-intelligence-machine Thu, 03 Mar 2022 20:22:49 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/03/ai-computer-maker-graphcore-unveils-3d-chip-promises-500-trillion-parameter-ultra-intelligence-machine

A mini brain with trillions of petaflops in your pant pocket? Sounds Good!

“This is what we’re announcing today,” said Knowles. “A machine that in fact will exceed the parametric capacity of the human brain.”

That next-gen IPU, he said, would realize the vision of 1960s compute scientist Jack Good, a colleague of Alan Turing’s who conceived of an “intelligence explosion.”

Those synapses are “very similar to the parameters that are learned by an artificial neural network.” Today’s neural nets have gotten close to a trillion, he noted, “so we clearly have another two or more orders of magnitude to go before we have managed to build an artificial neural network that has similar parametric capacity to a human brain.

The company said it is working on a computer design, called The Good Computer, which will be capable of handling neural network models that employ 500 trillion parameters, making possible what it terms super-human ultra-intelligence.

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China makes world’s most space launches in 2021 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/01/china-makes-worlds-most-space-launches-in-2021 Fri, 21 Jan 2022 03:22:58 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/01/china-makes-worlds-most-space-launches-in-2021

At this rate the CCP will be launching everyday by the end of the decade. Wow.


China became the country that has carried out the most space launch missions in the world over the past year.

The combination of the Shenzhou-13 manned spaceship and a Long March-2F carrier rocket is transferred to the launching area of Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Oct. 7, 2021. (People’s Daily Online/Liu Huaiyu)

The country’s Long March series carrier rockets, Kuaizhou series carrier rockets, as well as those developed by private space firms have made 55 launches and sent over 100 spacecraft into space.

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Chinese Property Giant Said Its Employee of The Year Was Not a Human, But an AI Program https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/01/chinese-property-giant-said-its-employee-of-the-year-was-not-a-human-but-an-ai-program Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:23:12 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/01/chinese-property-giant-said-its-employee-of-the-year-was-not-a-human-but-an-ai-program

At first glance, Cui is depicted as a beautiful young professional in her 20s who joined Vanke’s accounting department in February 2021 and is the recipient of the company’s Best Newcomer Award. Cui has a 91.44 percent success rate in collecting overdue payments. In December 2021, Baixin Bank launched its first virtual employee named AIYA, and Jiangnan Rural Commercial Bank launched its VTM digital employees. Earlier in April 2019, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank introduced its first AI-powered digital employee named Xiaopu, capable of serving its bank users at different posts Notably, China’s first “meta-human” AYAYI made its debut on Chinese e-commerce platform Xiaohongshuin in May 2021. The hyper-realistic digital human garnered three million views on its first post.

According to a 2019 report compiled by Deloitte, a global professional services network, experts predict that using AI at a larger scale will add as much as $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030.Deloitte’s report shows that from 2015 to 2020, the average annual compound growth rate of the global artificial intelligence market was 26.2 percent, while the growth rate of the Chinese AI market during the same period was 44.5 percent. Another report by Deloitte suggests that in 2025 the scale of China’s artificial intelligence industry will exceed $85 billion.

Presently, there are about 2,600 artificial intelligence companies in China. Most located in Beijing’s Haidian District technology hub, The Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), a U.S. think tank, estimated the CCP’s total R&D investment in artificial intelligence in 2018 was between $2 billion and $8.4 billion.


From news anchors to company employees, AI-powered virtual humans have quickly taken over human posts in China.

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Chinese scientists build factory robot that can read minds https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/01/chinese-scientists-build-factory-robot-that-can-read-minds Thu, 06 Jan 2022 04:22:52 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/01/chinese-scientists-build-factory-robot-that-can-read-minds

The robot not only monitored the worker’s brain waves, but also collected electric signals from muscles, as it worked seamlessly together to assemble a complex product, according to its developers at China Three Gorges University’s Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation Technology Centre.

The co-worker did not need to say or do anything when they needed a tool or a component, as the robot would recognise the intention almost instantly, picking up the object and putting it on the workstation, according to the developers.


Trained robot monitored co-worker’s brain waves and muscle signals to predict needs, China Three Gorges University team says in domestic peer-reviewed paper.

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