A reminder: to err is human, but to really screw-up use an AI…
- Google builds an AI model that can predict future weather catastrophes. But can it predict future AI catastrophes?
- Insects and other animals have consciousness, experts declare.
- Aliens may be hitching rides on meteors to colonize the cosmos, study suggests. Here’s how we could spot them.
- Humans first started enjoying cannabis in China circa 2800 BCE.
- The unsurprising non-detection of intelligent aliens.
- The key problem with the ‘brain in the vat’ thought experiment.
- Engraved bone of prehistoric bear is the oldest example of Neanderthal culture – and might even represent numerical notation.
- 41,000 years ago, a rare, extreme event allowed an onslaught of cosmic rays through Earth’s magnetic field.
- How ‘de-extinction’ could change our destiny.
- Antarctica is behaving in a way we’ve never seen before. Can it recover?
- Daniel Dennet, philosophical giant who championed ‘naturalism’ and ‘New Atheism’, has died at age 82.
- Image of the Day: Chemtrail conspiracy theorists go!
Quote of the Day:
If we turn [AI] into a weapon for disinformation, we are in deep trouble, because we won’t know what we know, and we won’t know who to trust, and we won’t know whether we’re informed or misinformed. We may become either paranoid and hyper-sceptical, or just apathetic and unmoved. Both of those are very dangerous avenues. And they’re upon us.
