Fleming went on to win the gold medal. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. From figure skating to ice hockey, many of the most popular winter sports stem from a long history of people simply playing around on ice skates . Part of what makes a good skater so fun to watch is the juxtaposition of their clear technical skill and the seeming effortlessness with which they glide across the ice. They make it seem so natural.

The two had a blowout argument over the future direction of OpenAI – the company they came together to found in 2015 – with Altman seemingly content to pursue a for-profit approach and Musk feeling that was forswearing the founding principles of the firm as well as its name. OpenAI couldn't be open, he reckoned, if it was closed off and trying to make money rather than better humanity. So it's no surprise that Musk, who lodged an audacious bid to take over Twitter a little more than two years ago, which ended up with his ownership of the platform now called X, has sought to put a spoiler in two years of near-untrammelled growth for OpenAI. Musk – who is currently overhauling (to his supporters; "tearing down" to his opponents) the US government to be, as he would describe it, leaner and more efficient while also devastating important programmes such as international aid and cutting-edge scientific research – has lodged a near 100bn bid for OpenAI's non-profit arm. "It's time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was," Musk said in a statement supplied by the lawyer shepherding his bid.

The world's oceans are amazing carbon sponges, capturing a quarter of human-produced carbon dioxide when surface waters react with the greenhouse gas in the air or marine organisms gobble it up as they grow. Some research groups and start-ups want to help accelerate this natural process by adding certain minerals to the oceans that could help them lock up even more carbon and slow climate change. The idea has attracted a lot of excitement and investment. However, a number of recent studies suggest that some of these approaches may not be as effective as scientists had hoped. That's disappointing news, because the world may need to suck up an additional 10 billion tons of carbon annually by midcentury to limit warming to 2 C, according to a recent report.

To support MIT Technology Review's journalism, please consider becoming a subscriber. But critics are starting to push back, arguing that the approach is wrong-headed. Asking computers a question and getting an answer in natural language can hide complexity behind a veneer of authority that is not deserved. "We got too bogged down by what we could do; we haven't looked at what we should do," says Chirag Shah at the University of Washington, who works on search technologies. On March 14, Shah and his University of Washington colleague Emily M. Bender, who studies computational linguistics and ethical issues in natural-language processing, published a paper that criticizes what they see as a rush to embrace language models for tasks they are not designed to address.

Zulfikar Ramzan, the former chief technology officer for cybersecurity giant RSA, holds a controversial belief regarding artificial intelligence …

Ever since Cats of Zero Wing delivered the oddly worded threat "all your base are belong to us" some 30 years ago, the writing in video games has been received with varying levels of enthusiasm. Often, it's denounced as stilted, hackneyed, and just plain nonsensical. At the same time, it has become a much loved, instantly recognizable genre unto itself. While the earliest iconically bad dialog mostly derived from poor translations--like Magneto in the 1992 X-Men arcade game introducing himself as "Magneto, master of magnet!" and shouting "Welcome … to die!"--a lot of it has been terrible all on its own: Peter Dinklage, for example, tried to take a subtle approach to the lines he was fed in Destiny and sounded unmistakably like he'd been drugged. Infamously, Hollywood has spent billions of dollars trying to adapt game franchises into movies and TV shows, yet decades since a goggling Dennis Hopper horrified children across the world with his turn as Nintendo's Bowser, it still hasn't succeeded.

If you want artificial intelligence to have human ethics, you have to teach it to evolve ethics like we do. At least that's what a pair of researchers from the International Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore, India proposed in a pre-print paper published today. Titled "AI and the Sense of Self," the paper describes a methodology called "elastic identity" by which the researchers say AI might learn to gain a greater sense of agency while simultaneously understanding how to avoid "collateral damage." In short, the researchers are suggesting that we teach AI to be more ethically-aligned with humans by allowing it to learn when it's appropriate to optimize for self and when its necessary to optimize for the good of a community. While we may be far from a comprehensive computational model of self, in this work, we focus on a specific characteristic of our sense of self that may hold the key for the innate sense of responsibility and ethics in humans.

One thing we can be sure about AI -- because we are told it so often and at so increasingly high a pitch -- is that whatever it actually is, the national interest demands more of it. And we need it now, or else China will beat us there, and we certainly wouldn't want that, would we? What does it look like, how would it work, and how would it change our society? The race is on, and if America doesn't start taking AI seriously, we're going to find ourselves the losers in an ever-widening Dystopia Gap. Savage and Nancy Scola exemplifies the mix of maximum alarm and minimum meaning that's become so typical in our national (and nationalist) discussion around artificial intelligence.

AI, which is supposed to stand for "artificial intelligence," now spans applications from cameras to the military to medicine. One thing we can be sure about AI -- because we are told it so often and at so increasingly high a pitch -- is that whatever it actually is, the national interest demands more of it. And we need it now, or else China will beat us there, and we certainly wouldn't want that, would we? What does it look like, how would it work, and how would it change our society? The race is on, and if America doesn't start taking AI seriously, we're going to find ourselves the losers in an ever-widening Dystopia Gap.

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