Artificial Intelligence could sideline and "destroy" its human creators if engineers cannot get a grip on the ethics behind it, Stephen Hawking has warned. Speaking at the Web Summit in Lisbon, the theoretical physicist said AI has the potential to be the best or worst thing humanity has ever seen and the scary reality is we just don't know which yet. "We cannot know if we will be infinitely helped by AI or ignored by it and sidelined, or conceivably destroyed by it," he said. The Cambridge professor said that while AI could be hugely beneficial for reducing poverty, disease and restoring the natural environment, it's impossible to predict "what we might achieve when our own minds are amplified by AI." "AI could be the worst invention of the history of our civilization, that brings dangers like powerful autonomous weapons or new ways for the few to oppress the many." "AI could develop a will of its own, a will that is in conflict with ours and which could destroy us. In short, the rise of powerful AI will be either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity."

Artificial Intelligence could sideline and "destroy" its human creators if engineers cannot get a grip on the ethics behind it, Stephen Hawking has warned. Speaking at the Web Summit in Lisbon, the theoretical physicist said AI has the potential to be the best or worst thing humanity has ever seen and the scary reality is we just don't know which yet. "We cannot know if we will be infinitely helped by AI or ignored by it and sidelined, or conceivably destroyed by it," he said. The Cambridge professor said that while AI could be hugely beneficial for reducing poverty, disease and restoring the natural environment, it's impossible to predict "what we might achieve when our own minds are amplified by AI." "AI could be the worst invention of the history of our civilization, that brings dangers like powerful autonomous weapons or new ways for the few to oppress the many." "AI could develop a will of its own, a will that is in conflict with ours and which could destroy us. In short, the rise of powerful AI will be either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity."

A startup will develop a proof-of-concept for an artificial intelligence (AI)-based object recognition capability for the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), that could greatly enhance security checkpoint operations. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded $199,961.29 to Synthetik Applied Technologies, for a solution that "proposes an advancement to three-dimensional (3D) object recognition" said Melissa Oh, S&T's Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) Managing Director. "The solution has many applications to DHS use-cases that we have not yet fully explored." The focus of this development is a capability using real-time voxel-wise instance segmentation to detect objects during property screening in airports. A voxel is a unit of measurement in a 3D image--a 3D pixel--and object segmentation is the problem of delineating each object of interest in an image.

The international nuclear arms control regime is approaching a critical juncture. If new nuclear weapons treaties are to be negotiated, ratified and enforced, they will need to be underpinned by strong technical monitoring capabilities. The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration is leveraging its expertise and technology to meet this challenge, understanding that in nuclear nonproliferation, you can't verify what you can't see. The United States is placing renewed urgency on developing the science and technology required to monitor our adversaries' nuclear activity -- specifically by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and the unmatched, high-performance computing capabilities found at DOE's national laboratories. DOE houses four of the world's top 10 fastest supercomputers, including the top two, and we are already at work on developing three next-generation, exascale machines, able to conduct a billion billion calculations per second.

Earlier this year, videos of a robot being kicked, hit with a chair, and shot at by its human owners spread online. Created by an LA-based production company, Corridor Digital, the videos were a parody of those released by Boston Dynamics, a company that has been making robots since 1992. You've almost certainly seen their videos. A robotic dog takes on a human in a tug of war. Sometimes the robots are cute, like the Sand Flea, which flicks itself effortlessly over 30ft walls.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is opening up a new frontier by combining human creativity with technology to drive progress in our society and bring governments closer to their constituents. According to the 2018 United Nations (UN) e-Government Survey all 193 Member States have e-government systems in place, at different maturity levels, to deliver digital services and experiences to citizens. The three most commonly used e-government services are paying utilities (140 countries), submitting income taxes (139 countries), and registering a new business (126 countries). Denmark is heading the top 10 e-government development ranking, followed by Australia, the Republic of Korea, United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Singapore, New Zealand, France and Japan. The next phase of e-government will use AI to go beyond digitized and automated services and deliver better experiences to citizens.

Mumbai-based Qure.AI was able to train its artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to analyse X-rays and head CT scans, develop two market-ready products, and obtain CE certification in three years, thanks to the India advantage. The advent of AI opens up many new possibilities in how the medical field thinks about patient care. In large and emerging markets like India, where doctors are in severely short supply, AI will help enhance the quality of patient care by automating tasks like reading diagnostic images, providing real leverage to doctors, especially in smaller towns. In developed markets like the US that are struggling to bring down the cost of healthcare, AI's ability to prompt timely interventions will both improve outcomes and reduce overall treatment costs. The sharp rise in investment in AI healthcare solutions illustrates the strong outlook and high level of interest in this space.

Canadian immigration officials deny travel visas to a large number of AI researchers and research students scheduled to attend the NeurIPS and Black in AI workshop, event organizers said. Among the people who have been denied entry is Tẹjúmádé Àfọ njá, co-organizer of the NeurIPS Machine Learning workshop for the developing world. NeurIP Information Processing Systems (NeurIPs) is the world's largest annual international AI conference, according to the AI Index 2018 report. The conference is scheduled to be held from December 8 to 14 in Vancouver, Canada. On Tuesday, Black in AI co-founder and Google AI researcher Timnit Gebru said that 15 of the 44 attendees who planned to join the workshop on December 9 were denied entry.

This research spans academia, militaries (though it can be difficult to suss out the actual breakthroughs from government propaganda), and private enterprise. Perhaps the most well known privately-owned robotics developer is Boston Dynamics, makers of the Atlas. You may remember this bipedal robot from September when it showed off its uncanny parkour abilities, which the robot can pull off 80 percent of the time. The Atlas is able to move so fluidly thanks to a novel optimization algorithm that breaks down complex movements into smaller reference motions for its arms, torso, and legs. However, while Boston Dynamics' Big Dog was developed as a quadrupedal cargo carrier for military operations, the Atlas is strictly for use as an emergency first responder.

The AI Organization's AI bio-metric scans of the human brain have decoded a bio-logical structure in the pineal gland that interconnects throughout the neural network of the human brain. We have termed the entire interconnection as the Human Bio-Digital Network, as outlined in the book ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Dangers to Humanity. Google researchers, some CIA operatives and Air Force prototype fighter pilots have used wearable devices that interconnects with the pineal gland in order to control IoT's, networks or an airplane with their mere thought alone. Historically it was deemed as a process of connecting with brain waves on wearable devices, yet the Pineal Gland is a very key component to this process. For decades scientists have been baffled as to the reason why the Pineal Gland carries components similar to an eye, yet no real physical eye exists in the forehead. Some scientist claim before humans evolved to modern humans, we may have had one single eye.