Category: AI
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Leonardo Unveils ‘Michelangelo’ AI to Unite Europe’s Fragmented Defense
Italian defense contractor Leonardo has unveiled plans for the “Michelangelo Dome,” an advanced, artificial intelligence-driven system designed to integrate and coordinate Europe’s fragmented military assets against modern aerial threats. Speaking to Richard Quest on CNN’s Quest Means Business, Leonardo CEO and General Manager Roberto Cingolani detailed the ambitious project, describing it as a “comprehensive system” set…
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Scott Manley Scrutinizes Lumen Orbit’s Vision for Orbital AI Data Centers
In the midst of a global boom in artificial intelligence development, a Silicon Valley startup is looking beyond the Earth’s atmosphere to solve the energy crisis facing terrestrial data centers. Lumen Orbit, backed by the prestigious tech accelerator Y Combinator, recently published a white paper proposing the construction of massive orbital data centers for AI…
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Futurist Peter Leyden: Global Turbulence Signals Birth of a New Civilization
According to futurist Peter Leyden, the turbulence characterizing the current geopolitical and economic landscape is not merely the noise of a chaotic decade; it is the sound of a tectonic shift in human civilization. In a comprehensive new interview with Big Think and Freethink, Leyden argues that we have arrived at a rare historical juncture—a…
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Google DeepMind Co-Founder Doubles Down: 50% Chance of AGI by 2028
In a candid new interview, Shane Legg, the co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind, has doubled down on a prediction he made over a decade ago: that there is a 50-50 chance humanity will achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by 2028. Speaking on Google DeepMind: The Podcast with host Professor Hannah Fry, Legg offered a…
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DeepMind’s Hassabis Predicts AGI Within a Decade, Warns of ‘Non-Zero’ Catastrophic Risk
In a sweeping conversation at the Axios AI+ Summit, Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis offered a concrete timeline for the arrival of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), predicting that human-level cognitive systems are likely “5 to 10 years away.” Speaking with Axios co-founder Mike Allen just over a year after receiving a knighthood and…
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Former Meta AI Chief warns scaling LLMs won’t lead to human-level intelligence
Yann LeCun, Meta’s former chief AI scientist and a Turing Award laureate, has issued a stark warning to the technology industry and investors banking on the imminent arrival of human-level artificial intelligence: current methods are insufficient to get us there. Speaking on the Big Technology Podcast with host Alex Kantrowitz, LeCun dismantled the prevailing narrative…
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‘Godfather of AI’ Says Systems Likely to Outsmart Humans in 20 Years
Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist widely known as the “Godfather of AI,” issued a stark warning regarding the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence during a wide-ranging interview on GZERO World with Ian Bremmer. Hinton, who left Google last year to speak freely about the dangers of the technology he helped pioneer, predicted that AI…