Arusha — Nigerian neuroscientist Oshiorenoya Agabi may have found a way to solve one of life’s puzzling dilemmas: how to make air travel pleasant again.
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A physicist on why AI safety is ‘the most important conversation of our time’
Should we be worried about the dangerous potential of artificial intelligence?
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Amazon has designed an AI fashion designer
The retail giant is taking a characteristically algorithmic approach to fashion.
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Artificial intelligence will create new kinds of work
When the first printed books with illustrations started to appear in the 1470s in the German city of Augsburg, wood engravers rose up in protest. Worried about their jobs, they literally stopped the presses. In fact, their skills turned out to be in higher demand than before: somebody had to illustrate the Growing number of books.
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If you upload your mind to a computer, are you immortal or just a bot?
Immortality has gone secular. Unhooked from the realm of gods and angels, it’s now the subject of serious investment—both intellectual and financial—by philosophers, scientists, and the Silicon Valley set. Several hundred people have already chosen to be “cryopreserved” in preference to simply dying, as they wait for science to catch up and give them a second shot at life. But if we treat death as a problem, what are the ethical implications of the highly speculative “solutions” being mooted?
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10 artificial intelligence technologies that will rule 2018
Artificial Intelligence is changing the way we think of technology. It is radically changing the various aspects of our daily life. Companies are now significantly making investments in AI to boost their future businesses.
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What is Ray Kurzweil up to at Google? Writing your emails
RAY KURZWEIL HAS invented a few things in his time. In his teens, he built a computer that composed classical music, which won him an audience with President Lyndon B. Johnson. In his 20s, he pioneered software that could digitize printed text, and in his 30s he cofounded a synthesizer company with Stevie Wonder. More recently, he’s known for popularizing the idea of the singularity—a moment sometime in the future when superintelligent machines transform humanity—and making optimistic predictions about immortality. For now, though, Kurzweil, 69, leads a team of about 35 people at Google whose code helps you write emails.
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How AI will help freelancers
When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), there’s a common question: Will AI technology render certain jobs obsolete? The common prediction is that yes, many jobs will be lost as a result. But what do the numbers say? Even more importantly, what does logical thought suggest?
NOTE: For anyone interested in learning the fine art of becoming a professional freelancer, check out the upcoming Freelance Academy at the DaVinci Institute.
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AI is not the future it is the present. 3 ways AI is influencing education industry.
Artificial Intelligence – the word conjures up the Hollywood sanctioned image of terminators taking over our world. Most people think of AI as something a bit scary that might occur in the future.
The game-changing technology every company needs to prepare for now
Artificial intelligence is coming soon to reshape your business–and the world.
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AI is inventing languages humans can’t understand. Should we stop it?
Researchers at Facebook realized their bots were chattering in a new language. Then they stopped it.
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Robots and AI are going to make social inequality even worse, says new report
Rich people are going to find it easier to adapt to automation.
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