Concerns that artificial intelligence will pose a danger if it develops consciousness are misplaced, says Jim Davies.
The Mars lander touched down late on Wednesday night but was emitting no signal, ground controllers have announced. It was not known whether the craft was intact.
“The lander touched down, that is certain,” Thierry Blancquaert, manager of the European Space Agency’s “Schiaparelli” lander told AFP.
“Whether it landed intact, whether it hit a rock or a crater or whether it simply cannot communicate, that I don’t know.”
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In Tokyo, you can park your bike in underground vaults, and retrieve it in just 8 seconds. http://cnn.it/2evfkBL
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The REAL danger of AI… wink
Robots (Emily Blunt, Mikey Day) meant to deliver food repeatedly malfunction during a presentation.
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NASA is offering $1.1 million in prize money in Phase 2 of the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge for new ways to build houses where future space explorers can live and work.
The three-part competition asks citizen inventors to use readily available and recyclable materials for the raw material to print habitats.
Phase 2 focuses on the material technologies needed to manufacture structural components from a combination of indigenous materials and recyclables, or indigenous materials alone. NASA may use these technologies to construct shelters for future human explorers to Mars. On Earth, these same capabilities could also be used to produce affordable housing wherever it is needed or where access to conventional building materials and skills is limited.
