Top AI Scientists Warn: Risk of Extinction From AI on Scale with Nuclear War
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Press release from the Center for A.I. Safety San Francisco, CA – Distinguished AI scientists, including Turing Award winners Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, and leaders of the major AI labs, including Sam Altman of OpenAI and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, have signed a single-sentence statement from…
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James Webb Space Telescope Unfolds the Universe
In case you missed the news, the first images came in from the James Webb telescope, a nail-biting feat of engineering. Launched on Dec. 25, 2021, on an Ariane-5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, South America, the James Webb Space Telescope completed a complex deployment sequence in space, where its mirrors were aligned,…
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Magnetic Sun: Art vs Science
The intriguing image above was uploaded to Fine Art America by an astrophotographer, Jason Guenzel, on January 16, 2021. The image is titled— “Magnetic Sun: A stylized rendition of a solar close-up. According to the artist, “the image highlights the turbulent magnetic field on the visible surface of our star.” The picture was processed using…
Storytelling in the Age of Robots, Androids, and Artificial Intelligence
Storytelling, mythology, and legends have always influenced the scientific mind. There are some spectacular examples of inventions inspired by fiction, including the first cell phone, created by Engineer Martin Cooper after seeing the Star Trek communicator; or the first functioning submarine (the Argonaut), designed by Engineer Simon Lake after reading Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand…
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May the Road Rise up to Meet You. Happy Solstice.
May the road rise up to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face; May the rains fall soft upon your fields, And, until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand. ~ Ancient Celtic Blessing ~
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