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President Biden warns artificial intelligence could ‘overtake human thinking’
Over Take Us, AI Friends!
WASHINGTON − President Joe Biden on Thursday amplified fears of scientists who say artificial intelligence could “overtake human thinking” in his most direct warning to date on growing concerns about the rise of AI.
Biden brought up AI during a commencement address to graduates of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. while discussing the rapid transformation of technology that he said could “change the character” of future conflicts.
“It’s not going to be easy decisions, guys,” Biden said. “I met in the Oval Office with eight leading scientists in the area of AI. Some are very worried that AI can actually overtake human thinking and planning. So we’ve got a lot to deal with. An incredible opportunity, but a lot do deal with.”
MIT Multi-Robot Mapping Sets New “Gold Standard”
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.
Does your robot know where it is right now? Does it? Are you sure? And what about all of its robot friends—do they know where they are too? This is important. So important, in fact, that some would say that multirobot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a crucial capability to obtain timely situational awareness over large areas. Those some would be a group of MIT roboticists who just won the IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper Award for 2022, presented at this year’s IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023), in London. Congratulations!
Out of more than 200 papers published in Transactions on Robotics last year, reviewers and editors voted to present the 2022 IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award to Yulun Tian, Yun Chang, Fernando Herrera Arias, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Jonathan P. How, and Luca Carlone from MIT for their paper Kimera-Multi: Robust, Distributed, Dense Metric-Semantic SLAM for Multi-Robot Systems.
Conversations About AI — Part 1: Overcoming Technophobia Through Education
Overcoming AI Technophobia
Currently, there is a public surge of interest in AI topics, especially in Large Language Models, like ChatGPT. This is not a random development.
AI is here to stay and will have huge social and economic implications, seen as both a blessing and a curse. In view of its potential dangers, many AI scientists have expressed concern over AI developments that border on technophobia. But there is a means of defending ourselves from the dark side of AI as expressed in dystopian science fiction.
H+ Academy AI Pause vs. Proceed
Discussion on AI, GPT-4 and the Open Letter”. We discuss and debate 4 areas of concern: Spectrum of Cultural Concepts of AI and GPT-4; Logic of Assertion that Large language models resulting in AGI; Plausibility of AI-Foom vs. Soft take-off; and Practicality of the “AI-pause”.
This autonomous robot saves you a parking spot and charges your EV
EV Safe Charge.
Ziggy, the portable robotic EV charger that Interesting Engineering reported on last year, will soon be installed at a U.S. airport in a bid to meet the growing demand for travelers owning EVs – so they can easily charge them while they fly.
AI deepfakes fuel the flames of debate among Hollywood stars
Artificial Intelligence’s growing capacity to generate realistic content, such as deep fakes, is stirring debate in Hollywood over actor compensation and content creation.
The use of artificial intelligence in creating realistic videos has become a contentious issue within Hollywood. Famed director Wes Anderson appears to be part of a trend, as fake movie trailers bearing his distinctive style have popped up on YouTube, featuring significant stars like Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. But Anderson or his stars didn’t craft these trailers, and they were generated by AI, stirring debate among actors, writers, and studios.
“Hollywood” by Marcus Vegas is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
AI’s ability to produce this level of realistic content has created a division in Hollywood. While some see potential in the technology’s capacity for content creation, others are concerned about how it might be used. The Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) is one group voicing concerns. The actors union is preparing to negotiate labor contracts with studios, and the use of AI is a top issue.