Over the past two years, we have seen much written about the “promise and peril” of artificial intelligence (AI). Some…
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As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more powerful – even being used in warfare – there’s an urgent need for governments,…
A single burst of light is precisely aimed at a tiny drone flying at breakneck speed far in the distance.…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely regarded as a disruptive technology because it has the potential to fundamentally alter social relationships.…
Iran and other nations have waged a stealth cyberwar against the United States for at least the past decade, largely targeting not the government itself but, rather, critical infrastructure companies. This threat to the private sector will get much worse before it gets better and businesses need to be prepared to deal with it.
In fact, the 42 authors of DeepMind’s paper, published today in Nature, greatly outnumber the rest of the world building bots for StarCraft. Without wishing to take anything away from an impressive feat of collaborative engineering, if you throw enough resources at a problem, success is all but assured.
At an upcoming summit in early December, NATO is expected to declare space as a “warfighting domain”, partly in response to new developments in technology. If it does declare space a war zone, NATO could start using space weapons that can destroy satellites or incoming enemy missiles. But what is this technology and how could it enable a war?