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Scientists are warning machine learning will soon outsmart humans – maybe it’s time for us to take note Last Monday an eminent, elderly British scientist lobbed a grenade into the febrile anthill of researchers and corporations currently obsessed with artificial intelligence or AI (aka, for the most part, a technology called machine learning). The scientist …

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Jürgen Schmidhuber believes AI will progress to the point where it surpasses human intelligence and will pay no attention to people Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The man once described as the father of artificial intelligence is breaking ranks with many of his contemporaries who are fearful …

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Stalking can be an all-encompassing trauma, but our lack of understanding about it undermines victim-survivors My husband and I had only been dating a few months when a stalker changed our lives. The moment remains crystalised in my mind. We’d spent the day with family and friends, and were encompassed by the sort of dopamine-fuelled …

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First, you’ve got to drive a long way before you overcome your EV’s embedded carbon debt. And then there’s the trouble with the minerals in its battery… So you’ve finally taken the plunge and bought an electric vehicle (EV)? Me too. You’re basking in the warm glow that comes from doing one’s bit to save …

I’m glad you’ve bought an electric vehicle. But your conscience isn’t clean | John Naughton Read More »

Feature allows users to set a list of friends and post tweets that only they are supposed to be able to read A privacy breach at Twitter published tweets that were never supposed to be seen by anyone but the poster’s closest friends to the site at large, the company has admitted after weeks of …

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A software engineer who takes photographs as a hobby spotted this early one morning – and stood on the boat’s railing to get the shot Around 10pm the night before this photo was taken, Samsul, a watermelon farmer, had boarded his boat in Barishal, a district of Bangladesh. He’d sailed through the night to Dhaka, …

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Commonly available software poses threat to tech company and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, leaked document says Google has been warned by one of its engineers that the company is not in a position to win the artificial intelligence race and could lose out to commonly available AI technology. A document from a Google engineer leaked online said …

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Geoffrey Hinton recently quit Google warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence. Is AI really going to destroy us? And how long do we have to prevent it? The first thing Geoffrey Hinton says when we start talking, and the last thing he repeats before I turn off my recorder, is that he left Google, …

‘We’ve discovered the secret of immortality. The bad news is it’s not for us’: why the godfather of AI fears for humanity Read More »

Era of lofty valuations for upstart youth media appears to be over, with Vice ‘heading for bankruptcy’ and BuzzFeed News shutting down Just over a decade ago Rupert Murdoch endorsed what appeared to be a glittering future for Vice, firing off a tweet after an impromptu visit to the media upstart’s Brooklyn offices and a …

‘Like Icarus – now everyone is burnt’: how Vice and BuzzFeed fell to earth Read More »

Sections of industry back synthetic alternatives to fossil fuels, but case is much stronger for aviation Most bright red sports cars do not make much of their green credentials. Yet a test run in Bicester, Oxfordshire, by the startup Zero Petroleum last week gave a glimpse of a future in which combustion engines did not …

E-fuels: how big a niche can they carve out for cars? Read More »