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AI will be help rather than hindrance in hitting climate targets, Bill Gates says
Bill Gates has claimed that artificial intelligence will be more of a help than a hindrance in achieving climate goals, despite growing concern that a surge in new datacentres could drain green energy supplies. The philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder told journalists that AI would enable countries to use less energy, even as they require more data centres, by making technology and electricity grids more efficient. Gates downplayed fears over AI's climate impact after mounting concerns that the tech breakthrough could lead to a surge in energy demand and require more fossil fuels as a result. "Let's not go overboard on this," Gates said. "Datacentres are, in the most extreme case, a 6% addition [in energy demand] but probably only 2 to 2.5%. The question is, will AI accelerate a more than 6% reduction? And the answer is: certainly," he said.
AI & PANDEMICS - Workshop & Lecture Series on Information Law with Frank Pasquale
AI & PANDEMICS - Workshop & Lecture Series on Information Law with Frank Pasquale Time: 2020/09/28 09:00 2020/09/28 11:30 09:00-10:00 Speech "What is the Future of Automation Post-COVID-19?", based on Frank Pasquale's new book - "New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in an Age of AI" * The official language of the event is English. Interpretation to Mandarin will not be available.
To Know or Not to Know
JEEVES's success depended crucially on JEEVES's visual range was extremely JEEVES as successful as it was? JEEVES's success was that its software JEEVES's hardware was designed and built by JEEVES can reverse the direction of the brush. It is equipped with seven ultrasonic proximity sensors (only five were used in the competition), a wide-angle color camera, and a high-speed colorbased vision system manufactured by Newton Research Labs. Prior to the competition, the vision system was trained to recognize yellow tennis balls, pink squiggle balls, and cyan markers that marked the gate. The vision system proved extremely reliable during the competition, benefiting from clear color cues provided by the objects.
Universal Planning: An (Almost) Universally Bad Idea
To present a sharp criticism of the approach known as universal planning, I begin by giving a precise definition of it. The key idea in this work is that an agent is working to achieve some goal and that to determine what to do next in the pursuit of this goal, the agent finds its current situation in a large table that prescribes the correct action to take. Of course, the action suggested by the table might simply be, "Think about your current situation and decide what to do next." This method is, in many ways, representative of the conventional approach to planning; however, what distinguishes universal plans from conventional plans is that the action suggested by a universal plan is always a primitive one that the agent can execute immediately (Agre and Chapman 1987; Drummond 1988; Kaelbling 1988; Nilsson 1989; Rosenschein and Kaelbling 1986; Schoppers 1987). Several authors have recently suggested that a possible approach to planning in uncertain domains is to analyze all possible situations beforehand and then store information about what to do in each.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella lays out 10 Laws of AI (and Human Behavior)
Taking a page from Isaac Asimov's famous Three Laws of Robotics, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has drawn up six "musts" for the revolution in artificial intelligence that he sees coming, plus four musts for the humans living in the AI age. Nadella's deep dive into the philosophical underpinnings of AI research comes as Microsoft is turning its attention toward AI tools with a vigor reminiscent of billionaire co-founder Bill Gates' pivot to the internet in the mid-1990s. In his own essay, published today online on Slate, Nadella refers not only to Asimov's laws, but also to Gates' 1995 "Internet Tidal Wave" memo. The essay also comes amid a debate over whether AI could pose a "Terminator"-level threat to humanity's long-term future. Just this week, for example, British physicist Stephen Hawking warned about the rise of an "AI arms race" in autonomous weapons.