A trio of Vladimir Putin’s leading hypersonic scientists have been detained on suspicion of high treason in what fellow scientists have declared a ‘witch hunt’ Aerodynamics specialist Dr Valery Zvegintsev, 78, is the latest of three prominent scientists from the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Novosibirsk to be arrested on extremely serious charges. Zvegintsev,... 

New legislation aimed at regulating artificial intelligence (AI) has been announced by the European Parliament, which seeks to ensure the “human-centric and ethical” development of AI systems. The draft AI Act, which would be the first of its kind in the world, was voted in favor of by the internal market committee and the civil liberties committee on Thursday. If approved in the mid-June plenary... 

Google’s rush to win the artificial intelligence (AI) race has led to ethical lapses on the company’s part. Eighteen current and former workers at the Mountain View, California-based tech firm, alongside internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg, have attested to this. According to the employees, the management asked them to test out Google’s AI chatbot Bard in March, shortly before its public... 

During his bombshell interview with Tucker Carlson, aired Monday, Elon Musk revealed that Google has long planned to create an AI God and that Musk has repeatedly warned the company’s owners against it. Musk stated that Google’s ultimate goal is to “create digital super intelligence” or what he describes as a “digital god.” The Twitter owner said that Co-Founder of Google, Larry Page,... 

Artificial Intelligence expert Dr. Pratik Desai, who has founded several Silicon Valley startups, made waves online after he tweeted that people should be able to “live forever” by the end of the year. He explained that uploading videos of elders and loved ones will allow technology to synthesize their looks and voices after they leave their physical bodies. “Start regularly recording your parents,... 

At its annual investor meeting in Tampa, retail giant Walmart announced that over the next three years, it plans to convert 65 percent of its stores to a model of “automation.” In addition to laying off about 2,000 factory workers in the shorter term, the $388 billion multi-national corporation is eager to trim many more human employees in the coming years as it switches to a robot service format. Currently,... 

A high-profile artificial intelligence (AI) researcher is warning that unless all advanced AI systems and associated programs are immediately shut down, humanity will eventually become extinct at the hands of the life-destroying robots they are unleashing. Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), wrote an op-ed for TIME magazine this week explaining the... 

In an op-ed titled “The Age of AI has begun” on “The Blog of Bill Gates,” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates discussed the upcoming paradigm shift in technology. Having been instrumental in developing personal computers several decades ago, the billionaire seems to know a thing or two about technological innovation. He believes that OpenAI’s language generation artificial... 

Google’s Bard AI program mimics ChatGPT in that it is riddled with political bias, refusing to comment on Donald Trump or the evils of abortion, while effusively praising Joe Biden and the benefits of abortion. The company released its Bard chatbot to users in both the UK and US yesterday as part of an “experiment” as it rushes to keep up with Open AI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat. “We... 

A survey released Friday by German broadcaster ARD showed that the majority of Germans oppose banning combustion engines in new cars across the European Union. Germany has recently blocked an EU vote to ban the sale of new vehicles with combustion engines across the bloc from 2035. What did the survey show? Two-thirds of Germans, or 67%, are against the ban, according to ARD, and only one quarter,... 

If you are even the slightest bit aware of what is happening to our country, you have probably said something like, “it can’t go on like this forever, eventually there is going to be a collapse.” From an economic perspective, you instinctively know that, eventually, you will run out of other people’s money. For decades now, you could tell how much a website’s audience was aware of reality... 

The U.S. government has alien tech in its possession which is being reverse-engineered, according to a bombshell admission by Congressman Tim Burchett. Speaking to Newsweek, Burchett declared that he believes “we have recovered a craft at some point, and possible beings.” “I think that a lot of that’s being reverse-engineered right now, but we just don’t understand it.” Msn.com reports:... 

Even a couple of years ago, the idea that artificial intelligence might be conscious and capable of subjective experience seemed like pure science fiction. But in recent months, we’ve witnessed a dizzying flurry of developments in AI, including language models like ChatGPT and Bing Chat with remarkable skill at seemingly human conversation. Given these rapid shifts and the flood of money and talent... 

A former Google engineer fired by the company last year after claiming the company had developed a sentient artificial intelligence (AI) now believes Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot may have also gained sentience. Lemoine gained prominence last June when he went to the press to warn that Google’s language model program, the Language Model for Dialogue Applications, has gained sentience. He was... 

Four of the world’s top experts in environmental health are calling for prevention and precaution when it comes to public exposure to radiofrequency (RF) radiation. The scientists — including the former director of the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) — last month published a preprint review of the most recent studies on the effects of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) and RF radiation on...