We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.
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‘Common Sense’ Test Could Lead to Smarter AI
The goal of achieving what is called artificial general intelligence — or the capacity of an engineered system to display human-like general intelligence — is still some time off into the future. Nevertheless, experts in the field of AI have no doubt accomplished some major milestones along the way, including developing AI capable of deep neural reasoning, tactile reasoning, and even AI with rudimentary social skills.
Now, in yet another step toward AI with more human-like intelligence, researchers from IBM, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have developed a series of tests that would evaluate an AI’s ability to use a machine version of “common sense” — or a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge in a manner that is shared by nearly all humans.
Scientists Discovered The Perfect Urinal Toilet Design That Stops Splash Back
Scientists may have found an answer to a unique issue people who can pee standing up face daily. After extensive research, scientists have found a urinal toilet design they say eliminates splashing and mess — you know, when you’re peeing and all of the sudden your pants have caught some strays, too.
San Francisco police to soon deploy robots that can kill
The organization says the machines would only be used in extreme situations where lives are at stake.
Supervisors in San Francisco voted Tuesday to allow city police to use potentially lethal remote-controlled robots in emergency situations, according to a report by Mission Local.
A dystopian future?
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The vote was eight for three against, with opponents saying the move would lead to the further dangerous and unwanted militarization of a police force already too aggressive with minorities.
FIFA World Cup’s high-tech ball just invalidated Ronaldo’s ‘record-breaking’ goal
The soccer star had claimed his head brushed the ball in Portugal’s opening goal against Uruguay.
FIFA has now provided an explanation for why Portugal’s opening goal against Uruguay was not awarded to five-time Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo.
The 37-year-old, the world’s most recognized soccer player, claimed his head brushed the ball during the opening goal against the opponents in Monday’s encounter of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
‘Holdout Humans’: Chilling Glimpse Into Our Future if We Survive Another Million Years
This was an entertaining read for me, maybe some of you will like it too!
Most species are transitory. They go extinct, branch into new species or change over time due to random mutations and environmental shifts. A typical mammalian species can be expected to exist for a million years.
Modern humans, Homo sapiens, have been around for roughly 300,000 years. So what will happen if we make it to a million years?
Science fiction author H.G. Wells was the first to realise that humans could evolve into something very alien.
