Matt Drake | Daily Star | Source URL THE FBI is creating a “nation of suspects” by putting every American citizen’s DNA on file, according to shocking claims by a US think tank. President Donald Trump has signed the Rapid DNA Act into law which means the police can routinely […]
Can YOU tell the difference? Creepy website uses AI to create ‘deepfake’ photos of humans who don’t exist
Annie Palmer | The Daily Mail | Source URL A new website lets users click through an endless library of fake human faces created by artificial intelligence. Called ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com, the results are startlingly lifelike and may make you question what’s real and what isn’t. Every time a user refreshes their […]
Researchers develop a new type of nano computer chip that uses transistors made from AIR
Natural News | Source URL Transistor technology got a much-needed speed upgrade thanks to Australian researchers. Their experimental nano-sized computer chip doesn’t have any silicon in it. Instead, the space normally occupied by semiconductor material is left open to air. Electrons that go through those air gaps move much faster than they […]
Pentagon releases blueprint for accelerating artificial intelligence
Zachary Fryer-Biggs | Center for Public Integrity | Source URL The Pentagon made public for the first time on Feb. 12 the outlines of its master plan for speeding the injection of artificial intelligence (AI) into military equipment, including advanced technologies destined for the battlefield. By declassifying key elements of […]
Trump signs ‘American AI Initiative’ executive order to prioritize federal funding for artificial intelligence research
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Xeni Jardin | Boing Boing | Source URL There aren’t many details in Trump’s “American A.I. Initiative,” but the point appears to be: send a message of technological dominance to China. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday intended to boost America’s global position in artificial intelligence. While nothing […]
Trump to create American AI Initiative with executive order
cNet | Source URL President Donald Trump is directing federal agencies to focus on artificial intelligence (AI), multiple outlets have reported. The Trump administration is going to create the American AI Initiative with an executive order on Monday, according to the New York Times and Reuters. The order won’t include specific funding […]
New U.S. Experiments Aim To Create Gene-Edited Human Embryos
Robin Stein | NPR | Source URL A scientist in New York is conducting experiments designed to modify DNA in human embryos as a step toward someday preventing inherited diseases, NPR has learned. For now, the work is confined to a laboratory. But the research, if successful, would mark another […]
China and the US are dominating the global artificial intelligence race with more AI patents and dedicated institutions than anywhere else in the world, says UN
Peter Lloyd | The Daily Mail | Source URL China and the United States are leading the way in the quest to dominate the world of artificial intelligence, a study by the United Nations has found. It found US tech giants IBM and Microsoft had the largest AI portfolios, with […]
Swiss team develop ‘microswimmer’ robot to deliver drugs through the body
LONDON (Reuters) – A tiny sliver of elastic material swims along inside a narrow tube, coiling up and changing shape in response to the thickness of fluid and the contours of the tube around it as it moves towards its goal. The miniature robot – the bacteria-inspired brainchild of a […]
Zap: How Electric Therapy Is Curing Navy SEALs of PTSD … And Could Remake Brain Science
Patrick Tucker | DefenseOne | Source URL Hundreds of vets have tried out an experimental new treatment that could change how the world addresses mental disorders. Tony didn’t know what to expect when he walked into the Brain Treatment Center in San Diego, California, last spring. The former Navy SEAL only […]
Meet Marty, the Googly-eyed robot set to take to the aisles in 500 US grocery stores to look for spills and hazards
Mark Prigg | The Daily Mail | Source URL A wheeled robot named Marty is rolling into nearly 500 grocery stores to alert employees if it encounters spilled granola, squashed tomatoes or a broken jar of mayonnaise. But there could be a human watching from behind its cartoonish googly eyes. […]
DARPA wants to build an AI to find the patterns hidden in global chaos
Tech Crunch | Source URL That most famous characterization of the complexity causality, a butterfly beating its wings and causing a hurricane on the other side of the world, is thought-provoking but ultimately not helpful. What we really need is to look at a hurricane and figure out which butterfly […]