The first human subject to have received one of biotech startup Neuralink’s brain implants has fully recovered and is able to control a computer mouse using only their thoughts, according to company founder Elon Musk. News that Neuralink had successfully implanted one of their N1 brain–machine interface (BMI) devices into aread more
Today’s machine learning programs—more commonly referred to as artificial intelligence—have a serious handicap: due to the large amounts of computing power required for these modern miracles to function, they’re extremely energy hungry, with the servers and supercomputers that run these programs oftentimes consuming upwards of tens of millions of wattsread more
One of the crowning events in the field of AI research—the defeat of the world’s top professional Go player by a machine learning program—has been undone by an amateur player using a deceptively simple strategy: a strategy deceptive to AI, that is, but one that would be obvious to virtuallyread more
One of the pioneering developers of modern artificial intelligence, Geoffrey Hinton, has resigned from Google so he can speak freely about his concerns regarding the dangers and possible misuse—not to mention the potential existential hazards—posed by his own creation: the machine learning networks that power artificial intelligence. “I’m just a scientistread more