Biden urged to back AI weapons to counter China and Russia threats
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The report was written by a commission led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt for use by President Biden and other lawmakers The United States and its allies should reject calls for a global ban on AI-enabled autonomous weapons systems, according to an official report commissioned by the U.S. President and Congress. The report said […]

Covid: ‘Opportunity as well as threat’ from pandemic tech advances
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MuZero tested with Atari video games, chess and other classic board games DeepMind’s latest AI program achieves “superhuman performance” in tasks without following rules. Like the research center’s earlier AI agents, MuZero mastered dozens of old Atari video games, chess, and Asian board games like Go and Shogi. But unlike its predecessors, it had to […]

Facebook helps AI take a first-person view of life
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A long-term artificial intelligence (AI) research project led by Facebook could help answer the eternal question: “Where did I put that thing?”. The Ego4D project aims to improve AI’s understanding of the world from an “egocentric” first-person perspective. The hope is to improve the usefulness of devices such as augmented reality (AR) glasses. For example, […]