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Elon Musk says we only have 10% chance of making AI safe
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.
4 Remarkable Benefits of Artificial Intelligence
From the Russian President Putin to the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, everybody is talking about artificial intelligence. Yes, AI is promising a gamut of benefits to forward-thinking businesses. This has been grabbing the attention of everyone who is in the business world. If I tell the definition of artificial intelligence in a single line, "AI is a method of building human intelligence in machines". So machines can think like human, work like human (faster than human), without requiring human intervention.
The UK Autumn Budget gets tough on tech companies and tax
During yesterday's Autumn statement, Chancellor Philip Hammond outlined positive measures to push the adoption of autonomous and electric cars, develop new 5G networks, treble the number of computer science teachers and further research into AI and robotics. But tucked away in the 88-page document were small changes that show the UK government plans to get a lot tougher on technology companies that aren't willing to give back as much as they should. The most important notice came during Hammond's budget speech. As he pledged £400 million for a UK-wide EV charging network and a £100 million subsidy for electric car buyers, the finance minister also outlined steps to claw back money from tech giants like Google, Amazon and Apple, which use legal loopholes to avoid paying tax in the UK. "Multinational digital businesses pay billions of pounds in royalties to jurisdictions where they are not taxed – and some of these royalties relate to UK sales," said Hammond in his speech.
Prince Harry and robot to edit Radio 4's Today Programme
Prince Harry and a robot have been announced as two guest editors on Radio 4's Today Programme. Their fellow editors will be Baroness Trumpington, Tamara Rojo and Ben Okri. This is the 14th year control has been handed over to public figures between Christmas and New Year. Kensington Palace said Prince Harry would use the opportunity to "shine a spotlight on issues that are close to his heart". The palace added: "He is working closely with Today's team to produce segments on a range of topics, including youth violence, conservation and mental health."
How Artificial Intelligence is changing the world: Expert's opinions on the dilemmas of AI
But against this opinion some arguments are in the left side of Artificial intelligence. Elon Musk, an Expert of AI industry came out with another artificial intelligence warning on Monday. Competition for AI superiority at national level most likely cause of WW3 imo" The SpaceX and Tesla CEO suggested that AI could be the cause of Third World War. Replying to this Statement, indrasen smiled and says that "In the war situation, Artificial Intelligence could replace Human with Robots in the Army, hence can reduced the loss of Lives to some extent.
E-Gov: Smart governments, smart solutions; how Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh are looking to enhance productivity
The government of Karnataka has decided to partner US tech giant Microsoft to use artificial intelligence (AI) for digital agriculture. The collaboration intends to empower smallholder farmers with technology-oriented solutions that will help them increase income using ground-breaking, cloud-based technologies, machine learning and advanced analytics. The collaboration will experiment with the Karnataka Agricultural Price Commission (KAPC), department of agriculture to help improve price forecasting practices to benefit farmers. Microsoft, with guidance from KAPC, is attempting to develop a multi-variant agricultural commodity price forecasting model considering the following datasets--historical sowing area, production, yield, weather datasets and other related datasets as relevant. For this season, Tur crop has been identified for this prediction model.
Prince Harry to guest edit Today programme with a ROBOT
One might think that the BBC would go out of its way to avoid presenters that sound too'robotic'. But now it has appointed an actual robot to present the Today programme, alongside Prince Harry. Experts are using artificial intelligence to create a robotic version of presenter Mishal Husain, which will interview guests on the programme during the Christmas period. The human editors will appear on the Radio 4 show but also get involved behind the scenes, working with staff to decide which topics it should cover. Prince Harry's show will focus on'youth violence, conservation and mental health', whilst Baroness Trumptington will look at'the importance of plain speaking in politics and the debate around the legalisation of brothels'.
Hillary Clinton issues warning on artificial intelligence
Hillary Clinton spoke about the dangers of artificial intelligence in a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday. The failed presidential candidate was on Hewitt's show to promote her book, but the conversation steered towards recent advances in technology. Something that concerns Clinton is the potential for our society to become inundated with artificial intelligence - computers that mimic the human brain to complete tasks for us - such as home office assistants or even robot drones. Amazon's Alexa device, which allows users to shop, play music and look up questions online all by voice, is one example of AI Clinton says that AI can be a good thing, but she's worried that our society is rushing into a brave new world without thinking through the repercussions. 'Yeah, a lot of really smart people, you know, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, a lot of really smart people are sounding an alarm that we're not hearing. And their alarm is artificial intelligence is not our friend.
Budget 2017: Philip Hammond to spend hundreds of millions to make cars drive themselves
The Government is to spend hundreds of millions of pounds encouraging people to make electric cars that drive themselves. It will spend huge amounts of money to try and incentivise electric vehicles. Then eventually those cars will start driving themselves around the country – with Chancellor Philip Hammond backing a plan to have them making their own way by 2021. Jeremy Corbyn used the news about driverless vehicles to joke about having tested "backseat driving" in the Government, which has been bitterly divided before the Budget. Mr Hammond said the technology was being introduced because the Government saw it as the future.