Like a good junior programmer, Facebook’s AI is cutting its teeth with a bit of bug fixing.
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Someone killed hitchBOT the hitchhiking robot – can humans be trusted?
HitchBOT was on a mission to criss-cross the United States with the help of strangers, but the hitchhiking robot came up far short of its San Francisco destination, after it was destroyed in a vicious attack in Philadelphia – the city of brotherly love.
AI and robotics researchers call for a ban on autonomous weapons
Hundreds of Artificial Intelligence experts have signed an open letter warning that pushing ahead with AI weapons will lead to an arms race that puts the technology in the hands of every army, terrorist and despot.
Artificial Intelligence expert likens AI dangers to nuclear weapons
Stuart Russell is an award-winning AI researcher and author who says we need to be as careful with AI as we are with nukes.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds pooh-poohs fears over Artificial Intelligence
The creator of the Linux kernel has joined the all-star cast of tech-somebodies with something to say about Artificial Intelligence but he’s distinctly off message.
1 in 5 experts believe artificial intelligence will pose an ‘existential threat’
A significant minority of experts working in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), about 18%, believe that AI will one day pose an ‘existential threat’ to humanity.
UN asks if robots should be allowed to kill humans
As military software becomes more mature and more powerful it is increasingly trusted to act autonomously, but there is one crucial decision that we’ve not yet ceded; the decision to end human lives.
DARPA’s plan to make software security “the domain of machines”
Bugs like Heartbleed and Shellshock can sit unobserved in critically important software for years. The answer, according to DARPA, is intelligent software that fixes buggy programs while we sleep. Is it time to welcome our new robot guardians?
Artificial Intelligence could make us extinct, warn Oxford University researchers
Researchers from Oxford University have joined the growing chorus of sober, intelligent, technology literate people warning about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence by listing it as one of twelve risks that pose a threat to human civilisation or even all human life.
US Military wants to replace passwords with “cognitive fingerprints”
DARPA has awarded researchers at the US military’s elite West Point military academy a multi-million dollar contract to produce a replacement for password authentication based on “cognitive fingerprints”