The Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Superintelligence is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds. In light of recent advances in machine intelligence, a number of scientists, philosophers and technologists have revived the discussion about the potential catastrophic risks entailed by such an entity. In this article, we trace the origins and development of the neo-fear of superintelligence, and some of the major proposals for its containment. We argue that such containment is, in principle, impossible, due to fundamental limits inherent to computing itself. Assuming that a superintelligence will contain a program that includes all the programs that can be executed by a universal Turing machine on input potentially as complex as the state of the world, strict containment requires simulations of such a program, something theoretically (and practically) infeasible.

Cannes Lions this year saw the ad industry expanding its creative capabilities. Over 13,500 delegates from about 90 countries descended on Cannes again this year hoping for a Lion in one of 17 categories. With awards honoring work from design to creative data to radio, the ceremonies reflected a complex industry drawing on a broader range of creative disciplines than in the past, but also facing unprecedented challenges in making campaigns work across channels. "There's never been so many channels or points of interactions, or agencies working on various parts of that," said Keith Weed, chief marketing and communications officer at Unilever. "It's important to make sure the brand experience does not get fragmented."

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The'cognitive era' has arrived says IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, who was in Sydney yesterday to demonstrate Big Blue's cognitive computing technology Watson. The era marked the convergence of'man and machine' according to Rometty, who predicted that within five years every business decision would be aided by cognitive systems. IBM Watson is a technology platform that uses natural language processing and machine learning to reveal insights from large amounts of unstructured data. Ten years in the making, it's now being used by a number of Australian businesses. KPMG Australia yesterday announced it would be introducing Watson to its audit and assurance services to "accelerate teams' ability to analyse and act" on the "immense volumes of structured and unstructured data related to a company's financial and non-financial information".

"Now is the time for greater coordination and collaboration on AI," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a blog post for Slate on Tuesday. Like IBM, Google, Facebook, and other tech giants, Microsoft has jumped into AI full-force, releasing Azure Machine Learning, a cloud-based analytics tool, part of its Cortana Intelligence Suite, in 2015. It has also made mistakes, and recently sparked media attention with the release of Tay, a teenage chatbot that began uttering racist and sexist slurs on Twitter. Why Dick's Sporting Goods decided to play its own game in e commerce Dick's Sporting Goods has long partnered with eBay Enterprise on its e -commerce platform. Learn the benefits and risks of this multi -million dollar IT bet.

In just five years, every important decision made by businesses will be aided by cognitive systems that understand, learn and augment our decision making, according to IBM's chairman and CEO, Ginni Rometty. Speaking at the vendor's Thinkforum in Sydney on Tuesday, Rometty proclaimed the world is on the cusp of the next disruptive wave of technology driven by cognitive platforms that can take massive stores of data within an organisation and turn it into competitive advantage. "Regardless of role, every industry will be disrupted," she told attendees. "Every industry has its Uber or Tesla, and many people say they are going to be a technology company of some kind. An important question is: When everyone is digital, who wins? "Digital for all has to be the foundation, but it's not the destination.

Walk into a conference room on the 16th floor of an Uber Engineering building on Market Street in San Francisco. You enter an intense discussion around a table with software and data engineers, data scientists, modeling experts, and even a product manager. How to determine a fraudulent user. Fraud prevention is one of the fastest growing areas of research and development at Uber. As our platform has grown, so has the international underworld that tries to undermine it.

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"Now is the time for greater coordination and collaboration on AI," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a blog post for Slate on Tuesday. Like IBM, Google, Facebook, and other tech giants, Microsoft has jumped into AI full-force, releasing Azure Machine Learning, a cloud-based analytics tool, part of its Cortana Intelligence Suite, in 2015. It has also made mistakes, and recently sparked media attention with the release of Tay, a teenage chatbot that began uttering racist and sexist slurs on Twitter. Why Dick's Sporting Goods decided to play its own game in e commerce Dick's Sporting Goods has long partnered with eBay Enterprise on its e -commerce platform. Learn the benefits and risks of this multi -million dollar IT bet.

Dogs may be man's best friend when it comes to sniffing out bombs at airports, but they could one day be replaced by cyborg'insects'. Engineers hope to exploit the locust's incredible sense of smell to create robotic'noses' inspired by the insects that could be used by homeland security officers. The system would be capable of picking out certain smells from a jumble of other scents, just like locusts can do. To come up with a man-made equivalent of the locust's sense of smell, the experts will monitor neural activity from an insect's brain while it's exploring its surroundings and work out how it decodes the smells present As a swarm increases in size, the locusts in it are more likely to stay on course. In a small group, the researchers found that locusts don't really interact.