Elon Musk has been very vocal about his concerns over artificial intelligence, and now the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has quantified his worries. In a recent talk, Musk claimed that efforts to make AI safe only have'a five to 10 per cent chance of success.' The warning comes shortly after Musk claimed that regulation of artificial intelligence was drastically needed because it's a'fundamental risk to the existence of human civilisation.' Elon Musk has been very vocal about his concerns over artificial intelligence, and now the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has quantified his worries. In a recent talk, Musk claimed that efforts to make AI safe only have'a five to 10 per cent chance of success' Elon Musk's latest company Neuralink is working to link the human brain with a machine interface by creating micron-sized devices.

Farmers in China have caught up with the country's booming drone trend and started using unmanned aircraft to spray pesticide onto the fields. Not only that, a team of villagers in central China recently bought 30 of these bug-zapping vehicles in hope of turning it into a new business. Zhu Xiwang and his neighbours said they hoped their squad of agri-drones to could help them start a pest-killing service, according to Huanqiu.com, an affiliation to People's Daily Online. This £24.8K flat pack folding home takes just SIX HOURS to build Pictures show the 30 drones lining up on a field, ready to take off. The unmanned aircraft, known by its model name MG-1S, is produced by Shenzhen-based Da Jiang Innovation, one of the largest drone manufacturers in China.

When academics move to an industrial setting from a scientific computing environment, a language like Java might be a little more intimidating and Python is way more user-friendly. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are all the rage right now. Many companies feel the pressure to invest in an AI strategy before fully understanding what they are aiming to achieve. JAXenter editor Gabriela Motroc caught up with Sumanas Sarma and Rob Hinds at JAX London 2017 to talk about the different types of ML tasks, the most suitable programming language for machine learning, when it's wise to jump on the ML bandwagon and more. If you want to learn how to incorporate machine learning into your development cycle and how to adapt your process to include machine learning while still staying true to agile and lean principles, check out Rob's article.

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center received five @HPCwire awards, including one for poker AI'Libratus' The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) received not one, but five HPCwire awards at the 2017 International Conference for High-Performance Computing (HPC), Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC17) on Sunday, Nov. 12. One of the three Readers' Choice Awards that PSC received was for Best Use of AI: CMU School of Computer Science "Libratus" AI on PSC's "Bridges" wins Brains vs. AI competition. HPCwire represents the leading trade publication in the supercomputing community and their annual Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards, given out at the start of the annual supercomputing conference, are well respected in that community. The awards are determined based on a nomination and voting process among the HPCwire community as well as selections from the publication's editors. In addition to Best Use of AI, PSC received two more Readers' Choice Awards -- Outstanding Leadership in HPC (Nick Nystrom, Interim Director, PSC) and Best Use of HPC in Energy (PSC with Texas A&M uses OpenFOAM on PSC Bridges & Texas Advanced Computing Center's Stampede to better understand coolant & heat transfer in high-temperature-jet reactors).

An ex-Google engineer who has registered the first church of AI says he is'raising a god' that will that charge of humans. The robot god will head a religion called Way Of The Future (WOTF), which will eventually have a gospel called'The Manual', rituals and even a physical place of worship, Anthony Levandowski first filed papers with the Internal Revenue Service inMay, and named himself as'dean' of WOTF, giving him complete control until his death or resignation. Levandowski his robot god will take charge of its human subjects as we relinquish our power to a creation with far more intelligence than our own. Anthony Levandowski (right) who has registered the first church of AI says he is'raising a god' that will treat humans as esteemed elders. He is pictured with Uber founder and ex-CEO Travis Kalanick.

There is a struggle today for the heart and minds of Artificial Intelligence. It's a complex "Game of Thrones" conflict that involves many houses (or tribes) (see: "The Many Tribes of AI"). The two waring factions I focus on today is those who practice Cargo Cult science in the form of Bayesian statistics and those who practice alchemy in the form of experimental Deep Learning. For the uninitiated, let's talk about what Cargo Cult science means. Cargo Cult science is a phrased coined by Richard Feynman to illustrate a practice of in science of not working from fundamentally sound first principles.

Stuart Russell was born in 1962 in Portsmouth, England. He received his B.A. with first-class honours in physics from Oxford University in 1982, and his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1986. He then joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is a professor of computer science, director of the Center for Intelligent Systems, and holder of the Smith–Zadeh Chair in Engineering. In 1990, he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, and in 1995 he was cowinner of the Computers and Thought Award. He was a 1996 Miller Professor of the University of California and was appointed to a Chancellor's Professorship in 2000.

Thank you! re: "solution for mobile and embedded devices", can we expect to see early support for rpi & piZero-w? The process for getting TF on a piZero right now is pretty painful. Many of us who are using TF on rpis for research in the self driving car space would *really* make good use of TF on a pi zero-w due to the cost difference and wifi support . How about the inference speed compared to other mobile DL framework such as https://github.com/Tencent/ncnn

After a flashy reveal in September, Apple earlier this month finally released its most forward-looking iPhone in years. To Apple, the iPhone X is a harbinger of what's to come. "Our teams have been hard at work for years on something that is important to all of us," CEO Tim Cook said on stage at the Steve Jobs Theater shortly before unveiling the device. But for the millions of Apple loyalists around the world, the iPhone X isn't just a cutting-edge new piece of technology -- it's an upgrade that will likely cost them more than any smartphone has before. For comparison's sake, the base model iPhone 8 costs $699, while last year's iPhone 7 was $649 when it launched.

Inventor and author Ray Kurzweil, who currently runs a group at Google writing automatic responses to your emails in cooperation with the Gmail team, recently talked with WIRED Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson at the Council on Foreign Relations. Nicholas Thompson: Let's begin with you explaining the law of accelerating returns, which is one of the fundamental ideas underpinning your writing and your work. Ray Kurzweil: Halfway through the Human Genome Project, 1 percent of the genome had been collected after seven years. So mainstream critics said, "I told you this wasn't gonna work. You're at seven years, 1 percent; it's going to take 700 years just like we said." My reaction at the time was: "Wow we finished 1 percent? Because 1 percent is only seven doublings from 100 percent. It had been doubling every year. The project was finished seven years later. That's continued since the end of the genome project--that first genome cost a billion dollars and we're now down to $1,000.