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1 year ago+19 19 0A future 'God-like AI' could destroy humans or make them obsolete if not properly contained, a prolific AI investor warned
AGI would be "God-like" because it could develop by itself unsupervised, and companies rushing towards that are risking disaster.
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1 year ago+4 4 0Wealthy Countries Have Blown Through Their Carbon Budgets
More than a century of burning fossil fuels has unleashed fiercer heat waves and droughts, heavier downpours that cause massive floods and other extreme climate disruptions. If we want to avoid even worse effects of climate change in the future, huma ...
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1 year ago+22 22 0Now Is the Time for a Federal Ban on Facial Recognition Surveillance
Cities and counties across the country have banned government use of face surveillance technology, and many more are weighing proposals to do so. From Boston to San Francisco, Jackson, Mississippi to Minneapolis, elected officials and activists know ...
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1 year ago+17 17 0IRS-authorized tax service eFile was found sending out malware
IRS-authorized tax service eFile.com appears to have been hijacked and used to distribute malware, researchers have found. The website hosts an e-file software solution, authorized by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), that offers tax returns filing ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0Bill Gates says calls to pause AI won't 'solve challenges'
Calls to pause the development of artificial intelligence will not “solve the challenges” ahead, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told Reuters, his first public comments since an open letter sparked a debate about the future of the technology.
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1 year ago+15 15 0'Secret Invasion' Revealed: Inside Samuel L. Jackson’s Eye-Opening New Marvel Series
Who are you, really? That question is at the core of Marvel’s new series, Secret Invasion, which follows Samuel L. Jackson’s spymaster Nick Fury as he uncovers a conspiracy to quietly install double-agents into positions of power around the world. In ...
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1 year ago+12 12 0Ohio River disaster as barge with tons of toxic methanol sinks
A crash near Louisville, Kentucky, caused three barges to become "lodged"—one of which, officials said, was partially submerged and carries 1,400 tons of methanol.
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1 year ago+17 17 0Diminishing health benefits of living in cities for children and teens
This is according to a new global analysis of trends in child and adolescent height and body mass index (BMI) led by Imperial College London and published in Nature. The research, by a global consortium of more than 1500 researchers and physicians, a ...
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1 year ago+11 11 0ChatGPT-4 saves a dog's life - Saki's Byte
A Twitter user recently shared a heartwarming story about how GPT-4 saved their dog’s life. After their dog was diagnosed with a tick-borne disease and started on treatment, things seemed to be improving. However, the dog’s condition took a turn for ...
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1 year ago+19 19 0Is Sriracha Vegan? The Answer Is Yes, But Also No (Here’s Why)
Less than two hours’ drive from Bangkok, on the southeast coast of Thailand, there is a sleepy seaside town called Sri Racha. It’s not too touristy, it’s relaxed, and, from the ocean to the jungle, it’s brimming with wildlife. But for most, this isn’ ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0Individuals with secure emotional attachment are more likely to forgive and to be forgiven, study finds
An new study of German couples has found that individuals with secure emotional attachment are more likely to forgive offences to their partners, but also to be forgiven. Persons with a preoccupied attachment style were more likely to forgive their p ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0Scientists explain alien comet 'Oumuamua's strange acceleration
The quirky comet 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar object found visiting our solar system, has been the subject of fascination since being spotted in 2017, including its curious acceleration as it hurtled away from the sun.
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1 year ago+13 13 0U.S. SEC threatens to sue Coinbase over some crypto products
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has threatened to sue Coinbase Global Inc over some of the crypto exchange's products, turning up the heat on the largely unregulated sector.
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1 year ago+14 14 0Dungeons & Dragons Could Prevent the AI Apocalypse—or Kick It Off
Deep in some underground ruins below a drought-stricken village, four brave adventurers found themselves in grave danger. The dungeon belonged to the Order of the Pure, a potentially nefarious cult that may have had something to do with the droughts ...
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1 year ago+4 4 0AI-generated images from text can't be copyrighted, US government rules
Any images that are produced by giving a text prompt to current generative AI models, such as Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, cannot be copyrighted in the US. That's according to the US Copyright Office (USCO), which has equated such prompts to ...
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1 year ago+11 11 0When A One-Armed Bandit Stole My Bitcoin
It was the fall of 2008. The iPhone was new, Flo Rida was a musical icon, and everyone under 25 was on Facebook. I was attending Tufts University as a sophomore studying International Relations. Being a lover of history and politics, my plan was to g ...
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1 year ago+21 21 0Vinyl Outsold CDs for the First Time Since 1987
Gone are the days of shimmery plastic CDs and chunky jewel cases, the past is making a comeback in a back way. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has revealed in its annual revenue report that vinyl sales have outpaced CD sales for ...
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1 year ago+20 20 0EU youth refuse to be surveilled - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Poll: the 80% would not feel comfortable being politically active or exploring their sexuality if authorities can monitor their communication.
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1 year ago+28 28 0 x 1OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit
OpenAI is at the center of a chatbot arms race, with the public release of ChatGPT and a multi-billion-dollar Microsoft partnership spurring Google and Amazon to rush to implement AI in products. OpenAI has also partnered with Bain to bring machine l ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0Americans’ belief in God hit an all-time low about 6 months ago — here's why
According to a 2022 Gallup survey, the percentage of people who believe in God has dropped from 98% in the 1950s to 81% today; among Americans under 30, it is down to an unprecedented 68%. Up close, the trend looks even more dramatic. Only about half ...