I've got some of these perceptions and systems technology and emergent behavior pieces that are relevant to this, and I'm smart enough to apply the necessary things. So, while I've got people that invested $20 million in my company, I'm not telling them that I'm likely to have the breakthrough for artificial general intelligence. Instead, I'm saying there's a non-negligible chance that I will personally figure out some of the important things that are necessary for this. The emergence of artificial general intelligence in a way that can impact the economy really is a'change-the-world-level' event, where this is something that reshapes almost everything that human beings can do. This is something that is almost the largest scale that you can think about.

Russia's internet watchdog Roskomnadzor is developing a neural network that will use artificial intelligence to scan websites for prohibited information. Called "Oculus," the automatic scanner will analyze URLs, images, videos, and chats on websites, forums, social media, and even chat/messenger channels to locate material that should be redacted or taken down. Examples of information targeted by Oculus include homosexuality "propaganda," instructions on manufacturing weapons or drugs, and misinformation that discredits official state and army sources. The system will also look for calls of mass protests, expressions of disrespect for the state, and even "signs" of extremism and terrorism. The real-time scanning capacity of Oculus will be 200,000 images per day, or about 2.3 images per second, for which the vendor, Eksikyushn RDC LLC, will use 48 servers with powerful GPUs.

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Facebook has snagged two made-for-VR Ubisoft titles. Virtual reality versions of Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell are coming to Oculus. Facebook made the announcement during its Connect event today. Ubisoft will develop the VR versions of both games. They'll be built from the ground up but will stay true to both franchises.

Virtual reality has burst onto the stage, and because of how well-supported it has become as a hardware solution, its practical applications--from enterprise training to video games--are expanding. VR is a powerful tool for a multitude of industries and even consumers. Real-time medical education through projects such as Immertec--in which physicians can aid and train, in real time, during an active surgery--is by far the most valuable use of VR that has real-world impact. But many other examples exist within healthcare, such as VR gamification of medical rehabilitation as done by Verapy and others. The future of medicine will be the ability to practice everywhere through VR. - José Morey, Liberty BioSecurity We are seeing some incredible uses for virtual reality in healthcare.

John Carmack, CTO of Oculus and recent recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in VR, is scaling back his duties at Oculus. In a Facebook post, he states that he will become a'Consultant CTO' for Oculus while pursuing a much more ambitious goal: Artificial General Intelligence. In other words, technical genius John Carmack, who revolutionised video games and then VR, is now going to help bring about human-like, or even human-surpassing, AI. While a radical shift in focus like this may seem out of the blue, there have been hints recently that Carmack isn't as engaged by VR as he once was. In his recipients' speech for the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's VR Awards, he talked about how he felt VR wasn't advancing quickly enough for him to feel satisfied.

Legendary coder John Carmack is leaving Facebook's Oculus after six years to focus on a personal project -- no less than the creation of Artificial General Intelligence, or "Strong AI." He'll remain attached to the company in a "Consulting CTO" position, but will be spending all his time working on, perhaps, the AI that finally surpasses and destroys humanity. AGI or strong AI is the concept of an AI that learns much the way humans do, and as such is not as limited as the extremely narrow machine learning algorithms we refer to as AI today. AGI is the science fiction version of AI -- HAL 9000, Replicants and, of course, the Terminator. There are some good ones out there, too -- Data and R2-D2, for instance. So far AGI has yet to be even defined in any serious way, let alone approached by researchers.

John Carmack, who was recently announced as the recipient of the first-ever Accenture VR Lifetime Achievement Award, has announced that he is stepping back from VR development. Carmack said in a Facebook post that, as of this week, he'll transition to "Consulting CTO" at Oculus VR--until now he was the regular, everyday CTO--which will enable him to have a voice in future development, while only taking up "a modest slice of my time." Carmack said that his previous efforts in game development, aerospace engineering (on top of everything else, Carmack is literally a rocket scientist), and VR have always afforded him some degree of a "line of sight" to solutions. Now he wants to see what happens when he doesn't have that advantage. "I have sometimes wondered how I would fare with a problem where the solution really isn't in sight," he wrote.

In the world of Facebook, Chief Global Security Officer Nick Lovrien says, "A day is a week, a week is a month, a month is a year." As a company, Facebook owns Instagram, Oculus, WhatsApp, and hundreds others, buying around 160 businesses just last year. The company's goal is to connect every person on the planet through Facebook-owned tech within 100 years. To get there, they're using AI. Here's a look at how Facebook is making use of artificial intelligence for projects today -- and tomorrow.

Whether you're a fan of Ratchet and Clank or more of a Resistance person, or you're just looking forward to this year's Spider-Man title, you've got to admit that Insomniac Games makes some pretty great stuff. Now Insomniac and Oculus Studios have released a trailer for a brand-new VR game, Stormland. There's no word on release dates or platforms as yet, but the trailer looks pretty stunning, showing a lush, open world that might remind you of Horizon Zero Dawn, with an adorably humanoid robot that seems to get its power from the natural world (echoes of Wall-E, there). You'll play as an android gardener on an alien planet. The Tempest (bad guys) have broken your body, so you need to explore the world to find things to augment and fix yourself.