Month: November 2017
Should we fear killer robots?
(CNN)Physicist Stephen Hawking recently warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence and “powerful autonomous weapons.” Autonomous technology is racing forward, but international discussions on managing the potential risks are already underway. This week, nations enter the fourth year of international discussions at the United Nations on lethal autonomous weapons, or what some have called “killer […]
Facebook apologizes after translation fail leads to false arrest
No translation service is perfect, but you wouldn’t expect it to get you arrested. Facebook admitted that an error in its artificial intelligence-based auto-translation feature led to the arrest of a Palestinian man who posted “good morning” on his social profile. The man, a construction worker in the West Bank near Jerusalem, posted a picture of himself […]
Corbyn: Let workers control robots
Image copyright AFP Robots in the workplace should be owned and controlled by workers rather than bosses, Jeremy Corbyn will suggest. The Labour leader, who has previously warned of the risk to jobs of automation, will say new technology has led to “a more rapacious and exploitative form of capitalism”. He will also suggest “gig […]
Facebook translates ‘good morning’ into ‘attack them’, leading to arrest
Palestinian man questioned by Israeli police after embarrassing mistranslation of caption under photo of him leaning against bulldozer. Facebook has apologised after an error in its machine-translation service saw Israeli police arrest a Palestinian man for posting good morning on his social media profile. The man, a construction worker in the West Bank settlement […]
‘It’s able to create knowledge itself’: Google unveils AI that learns on its own
In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, AlphaGo Zero took just three days to master the ancient Chinese board game of Go … with no human help. Google’s artificial intelligence group, DeepMind, has unveiled the latest incarnation of its Go-playing program, AlphaGo an AI so powerful that it derived thousands of years of human […]