Robot journalism dawns

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Robot journalism

When the earth rumbles during the night in California with one of the area’s regular earthquakes, Los Angeles Times reporter Ken Schwencke doesn’t have to rush to file a story any more.

 

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A great opportunity to make a quick buck - send out a fake story about a calamitous event (especially targeting other known computers), wait for shares to crash and pile into them at low prices, then send a correction and blame it all on the computer.

Better still - find a way to fool another computer into generating a calamitous story - then it doesn't even trace back to you.

 

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The Robot Dog is Wagging

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_dog

 

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By modeling a circuit board on the human brain, Stanford bioengineers have developed microchips that are 9,000 times faster than a typical PC. Called Neurogrid, these energy-efficient circuits could eventually power autonomous robots and advanced prosthetic limbs.

Bioengineers are smart to take inspiration from the human brain. It's a highly efficient information processor capable of crunching 100 million instructions per second (MIPS). Astoundingly, it only uses about 20 watts to power its 100 billion neurons. Today, our best supercomputers require a million watts to simulate a million neurons in real time (measured in terraflops). A standard desktop computer requires about 40,000 times more power to run and operates about 9,000 times slower.

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http://io9.com/brain-inspired-microchips-simulate-one-million-neurons-1569184586

One can imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand. Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all.

http://io9.com/stephen-hawking-says-a-i-could-be-our-worst-mistake-in-1570963874

http://listverse.com/2013/10/05/10-most-mind-blowing-androids-and-robots/