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Elon Musk speaks during a press conference at SpaceX’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on February 10, 2022JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Insider’s parent company, recently interviewed Tesla CEO Elon Musk. In response to the question, “what is your biggest fear?” Musk listed three existential threats. They included a declining birthrate, religious extremism, and “artificial intelligence going wrong.” Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed three… Source link

An unclassified version of an intelligence community assessment on the origins of COVID-19 released Friday afternoon shows that various agencies still don’t agree on whether the pandemic began from a laboratory incident in Wuhan, China, or was caused by a natural crossover from animals to humans. In the spring, President Biden ordered the intelligence community to conduct a 90-day review looking at the pandemic’s origins in China, amid growing debate and questions on the issue. The virus… Source link

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is best known for its industry-leading search engine, Google. But even though this tool has seen widespread adoption across the globe, most people probably don’t consider the technology under the hood. Google Search leans on artificial intelligence to understand language and deliver more accurate results. In other words, it tries to interpret what you mean, not just what type into the search bar. However, there’s… Source link

California’s Senate last week advanced a bill that would force Amazon (AMZN) to reveal details behind the productivity-tracking algorithm used in its warehouses; meanwhile, Facebook (FB) this week faced criticism over a Wall Street Journal report finding it knows its Instagram feed makes some teenage girls feel worse about themselves. These developments make up a backlash not necessarily against big tech, so much as its algorithms, which use artificial intelligence (AI) to adapt performance… Source link

Last month, Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, faced criticism over his leadership style in the form of a New York Times piece. The report relies on 15 current and former executives who have expressed discontent over–among other things–the amount of time Pichai takes to make decisions.  According to the Times, employees expressed frustration that “Google did not move quickly on key business and personnel moves because he chewed over decisions and delayed action.” For example, the sources… Source link

The top U.S. intelligence official said in an interview with Yahoo News on Monday that the true origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed 600,000 Americans and almost 4 million people worldwide, may never be known. Last month, President Biden directed the intelligence community to conduct a 90-day review of what he described as the two plausible theories for how the pandemic originated. In one scenario, the virus emerged from human contact with an animal. In the other, it leaked out… Source link

AI is better than other automated methods “because it learns from experience.” June 13, 2021, 2:15 PM • 4 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article This is an Inside Science story. Artificial intelligence can design computer microchips that perform at least as well as those designed by human experts, devising such blueprints thousands of times faster. This new research from Google is already helping with the design of microchips for the company’s next generation of AI… Source link

By Jessica Kent May 20, 2021 – Google has announced a dermatology tool powered by artificial intelligence that will help users understand issues with their skin, hair, and nails. The tool uses many of the same techniques that detect diabetic eye disease or lung cancer in CT scans to help consumers identify dermatologic issues using their phone’s camera. “Each year we see almost ten billion Google Searches related to skin, nail and hair issues. Two billion people worldwide suffer… Source link

Rhode Islanders can access the portal at BackToWorkRI.com. The initiative, which was launched in July 2020 by Governor Gina M. Raimondo, was meant to be a public-private partnership designed to train, support, and hire Rhode Islanders who have been displaced by the pandemic. Since last March, thousands of Rhode Islanders have lost their jobs, leaving them no other choice but to file for unemployment. Sarah Blusiewicz, assistant director of workforce development for the Rhode Island Department… Source link

Technology is changing our world, with results visible in real time. If you grew up in the 1980s, watching reruns of Star Trek, think for a moment about fantastic gadgets that have walked off the screen and into our lives: portable communicators, portable computers, voice-activated systems, to name just a few. Scotty once even automated the starship Enterprise, so that the ship could run with just five people on board. We don’t have a Star Trek transporter, and quantum physics tells us that… Source link