'AI godfather' worries we're creating 'alien beings' with artificial intelligence, with pesky moral implications

‘AI godfather’ worries we’re creating ‘alien beings’ with artificial intelligence, with pesky moral implications

Geoffrey Hinton is a computer scientist known for his foundational work in AI, specifically when it comes to neural networks (ie, approaching machine-learning a bit like our fleshy brain-learning). As such, he’s been described as the ‘AI godfather’. But, perhaps surprisingly, he recently described AI as “alien beings” that humans have a “moral obligation” towards….

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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for October: Mafia: The Old Country, Horizon Forbidden West, Mycopunk and more

PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for October: Mafia: The Old Country, Horizon Forbidden West, Mycopunk and more

This month, descend into the criminal underworld of early 20th-century Sicily in Mafia: The Old Country, brave a deadly frontier filled with awe-inspiring machines in Horizon Forbidden West, or take on hordes of fungal enemies with an outrageous arsenal of futuristic weaponry in the fast-paced co-op action Mycopunk, releasing day one into October’s PlayStation Plus…

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If New Blood had made Dusk 2, there’d be no Iron Lung, ‘and now David Szymanski has got a movie that made $50 million’—so maybe there’s wisdom in not churning out sequels

New Blood boss Dave Oshry isn’t interested in running a massive studio that follows the blockbuster strategy of milking its successful games for all they’re worth. The publisher-developer combo has enjoyed a string of big wins with its boomer shooters, but Oshry’s plan for building on success is to invest that money into new projects….

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Doom can ‘run’ on a DNS database now, and one of the technology’s pioneers says ‘I can’t decide whether this is deliciously horrible, or else horribly delicious’

In the early 2000’s, the perennial question was whether a powerful system could run Crysis. These days, it’s whether a minimal one can run Doom. We’ve seen an affirmative answer to this question when it comes to vapes, a motherboard BIOS, and even a pregnancy test. And now? A DNS database. To be clear, we’ve…

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