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Stephen Hawking Charity Auction Sees Iconic Chair Go For Sale
Stephen Hawking Charity Auction Sees Iconic Chair Go For Sale Earlier this year, the sad news came to pass that renowned physicist Stephen Hawkin had died at the age of 76. Rightly regarded as one of the greatest minds of his generation, he is perhaps better known for his electronically generated…
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Professor Stephen Hawking Sadly Passes Away Aged 76
Professor Stephen Hawking It is with great sadness that we must report today that Professor Stephen Hawkings, perhaps one of the brightest minds of our generation, has sadly passed away at the age of 76. Having lived a remarkable, but difficult life, Stephen Hawking was a living testament to the power…
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Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking Unveil $100m Voyage to the Stars
Eminent astrophysicist Professor Stephen Hawking has joined forces with science investor and philanthropist Yuri Milner to launch a revolutionary $100m “moonshot” which aims to send a miniature spacecraft hurtling across the galaxy, propelled by lasers. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also joined the board of the organisation, known as Breakthrough…
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AI Could Make Half the World Unemployed Within 30 Years
A computational engineer has warned that artificial intelligence could leave half the world unemployed within 30 years, and that he fears for the psyche of the human race, asking, “what can humans do when machines can do almost everything?” “We are approaching a time when machines will be able to…
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Professor Hawking Warns Technology is the Greatest Threat to Humanity
During this century and beyond, the human race will face its greatest threat ever from the rise of science and technology, Professor Stephen Hawking has warned. Hawking told the Radio Times (via The Guradian) that as developments in science and tech accelerate unabated, the chances of global disaster will increase.…
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Professor Stephen Hawking is Scared of AI “Incompetence”
Professor Stephen Hawking has been very vocal about the dangers of artificial intelligence – once warning that it could destroy humanity – and now the theoretical physicist has clarified the root of his fears. During a reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything), Professor Hawking, in response to a teacher bored of…
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Wozniak, Hawking, and Musk Warn Military Against Using Artificial Intelligence
A cabal of over 1,000 experts in the field of computing, engineering, artificial intelligence, and even prominent officers in the US Army, have signed an open letter, hosted by the Future of Life Institute, imploring the military to deprioritise its implementation of artificial intelligence. The signatories of the letter, entitled…
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Interstellar Travel and Time Travel? Never! Says Killjoy Hawking
The major tropes upon which most science fiction is based, time travel and visiting other worlds, will never be achieved by humankind, according to professional bonfire urinator (and astrophysicists) Professor Stephen Hawking. In a BBC interview with comedian (and physicist) Dara Ó Briain, Professor Hawking said that traveling back in…
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Ray Kurzweil Claims Human Brain will Merge with Computers by 2030
The likes of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and Professor Stephen Hawking have been agitating over the last few months about humankind being subjugated, enslaved, or even wiped out by artificial intelligence, so it’s refreshing to get another perspective on the rise of the singularity. In a more positive…
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Steve Wozniak Thinks Future of Artificial Intelligence “is Scary and Very Bad for People”
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, has thrown his hat into the artificial intelligence scaremongering ring – along with Professor Stephen Hawking, father of Microsoft Bill Gates, and SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk – by claiming that the future of AI is “scary and very bad for people,” presumably because…
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Artificial Intelligence Could Destroy Humanity Warns Stephen Hawking
Crush. Kill. Destroy. The singularity – the super-evolution of sentient machines – is coming, according to Professor Stephen Hawking, and we should all be afraid. “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race,” Professor Hawking said to the BBC. “It would take off on its own,…
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Stephen Hawking’s Speech System Made Open Source
A new speech system, created for famed physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, has been made available free and open source, creator Intel have announced. The project is called ACAT (Assistive Context Aware Toolkit) and has been in the making, through collaboration between Hawking and Intel, for the past three years. Hawking…
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