The'Fox & Friends' co-hosts discussed concerns surrounding artificial intelligence and how it will impact the internet moving forward. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson issued a stark warning on the rise of artificial intelligence, noting that the development of fake videos and other media could be the final "nail in the coffin" for the internet. The renowned astrophysicist and author discussed his thoughts surrounding the future of the global computer network during Thursday's episode of "The Fox News Rundown" podcast. "Part of me wonders, maybe AI will create such good fakes that no one will trust the Internet anymore for anything, and we just have to simply shut it down," deGrasse Tyson said. "Thirty years, it was a good run from the early nineties to the early twenties and 2020s, now it's time for the next thing," he continued.

If AI has a goal and humanity just happens to be in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it…It's just like, if we're building a road and an anthill just happens to be in the way, we don't hate ants, we're just building a road.

Artificial intelligence is growing at an astounding rate, but are we ready for the consequences? Cosmologist and MIT physics professor Max Tegmark guides us through the state of artificial intelligence today, and the many paths we might take in further developing this technology. This Frontiers Lecture, moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, took place in the Museum's Hayden Planetarium on January 8, 2018. Max Tegmark will be participating in the 2018 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate happening next week at the Museum. The podcast of that event will be available on February 15. ANNOUNCER: It is my pleasure to welcome not one but two of our amazing AMNH curators who will be introducing our presenter for the evening. First up we have Frederick P. Rose director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson. NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON (Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium): Welcome to the universe. I've just got to see that that show of hands again, is this the first time you've ever attended a Hayden program? We've been here for 60 years. We do this every month.

"OK Google, tell Audible we're coming after you." It may not be worthy of a page-turner. But Google is indeed launching an audiobooks service on Google Play that is set to challenge the Audible service owned by Amazon. It'll be an uphill battle for sure. Audible is the largest seller of narrated books and spoken content, with more than 400,000 titles overall. While Google starts rolling out audiobooks on Google Play starting today in nine languages and 45 countries, the company wouldn't tell me how many titles will be made available at launch.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson wants to give you the power to create a universe on your own terms. He's hoping to allow people to bend items like gravity, design solar systems and make decisions about how life forms. Not in reality, but in a video game he's hoping to bring to the market called "Space Odyssey." The astrophysicist and Manhattanhenge creator has started a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to create a video game about outer space. "There are enough video games that are shoot em' up and this sort of thing," Tyson said in an interview at Comic-Con. The campaign launched on Tuesday at the beginning of E3.

Kickstarter games are, pardon the cliché, a dime a dozen. Everyone and their business partner wants to get in on the crowd-funded interactive entertainment business, even if things don't always work out. Coleco failed on Indiegogo, but came to Kickstarter to try again. Kickstarter can be a mixed blessing, for sure: Double Fine mismanaged its successful campaign for Broken Age, while the team behind Banner Saga seems to be using the system fairly well. It's no wonder, then, why celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has jumped onto the crowd-funding service to fund his own new title, a "scientifically accurate" Space Odyssey - The Video Game.

Ray Kurzweil Predicts an exact year 2029 by which singularity will occur. In 1958 Stanislaw Ulam wrote about a conversation with John von Neumann who said that: "the ever accelerating progress of technology … gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue." Neumann's alleged definition of the singularity was that it is the moment beyond which "technological progress will become incomprehensibly rapid and complicated." The Singularity is Near https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sin... There's More to Singularity Studies Than Kurzweil http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/print/... What's the technological singularity?

On The Tonight Show, in March 1978, the late astronomer Carl Sagan had lots to talk about. He had just published Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence--which would win the Pulitzer Prize--and Star Wars, released the year before, still captivated the public's imagination. When Johnny Carson, the show's then-host, asked Sagan to expand on some comments he'd made prior to the evening, about the film's indifference to scientific accuracy, Sagan said the "11-year-old in me loved" it, but it "could have made a better effort to do things right." His critique would resonate today: After making the biological point that the Star Wars scenario--humans evolving long ago, in a faraway galaxy--is vastly improbable, Sagan said there's another problem: "They're all white." Carson, pushing back a bit, said, "They did have a scene in Star Wars with a lot of strange characters."

Where is humanity going, and what will we be like when we get there? Do we really have less than 15 years before computers match the intellectual and emotional capabilities of humans, and less than 30 years before artificial intelligence surpasses humanity? Join us for the Season 7 premiere of StarTalk Radio as Neil deGrasse Tyson examines futurist Ray Kurzweil's predictions about "the Singularity" with the help of guest neuroscientist Dr. Gary Marcus and co-host Chuck Nice. Find out why Ray thinks that we'll be able to directly link our neocortexes to the cloud, yielding an increase in brainpower the likes of which we haven't seen since humans developed our frontal cortex millions of years ago. Ponder the possibilities of nanobot computers the size of blood cells, preloaded with information, that can enter our brains through capillaries and make us smarter.