If there is one group of Americans whose privacy should be respected — both for personal- and national-security reasons — it would be active-duty service members and military veterans. As it turns out, like the information of every other American,…
Machines tend to take things literally. As far as your computer is concerned, the world is made of 0s and 1s and governed by algorithms. Even artificial intelligence sees and comprehends the world through a purely computational lens: ChatGPT-4 is…
“It never occurred to me that I was dreadfully nearsighted,” Ronald Reagan wrote in his 1965 memoir, Where’s the Rest of Me? “I simply thought that the whole world was made up of colored blobs that became distinct when I…
From the flood of stupid proposals trying to end climate change by spoiling life for humans, one meriting my full consideration has finally come up. It is Matthew Liao’s thesis “Tackling Climate Change Through Human Engineering,” set out in an…
According to British academic Matthew Hedges, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has deepened its friendship with the Russian Federation since Russia invaded Ukraine. A fact that taken together with the UAE joining the BRICS alliance, may prove to be a major…
These days, an AI application that translates videos to any language, even imitating the voice of the speaker, is gaining popularity. This has given us Joe Biden speaking in perfect Chinese and other things that we have found equally incredible,…
On Wednesday at 6:05 p.m. local time, 70 million people watched breathlessly, glued to their screens, as the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft hovered over the desolate landscape of the moon’s South Pole. Like a Pac-Man character, the craft was first above the…
Forget about artificial intelligence. The next big development in the tech industry is not chatbots that can respond to you as though they’re human — it’s computers that solve complex problems the way the universe does: with quantum physics. On…
China’s purchases of United States farmland have increased 456 percent since 2011, with 384,000 acres purchased in 2021, said Rep. Mike Gallagher at a roundtable on Agriculture Technology Theft in Iowa, led by the House Select Committee on the Chinese…
While open-source artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, the military has explored using more advanced AI versions for years, from gathering intelligence, acquiring targets, streamlining decision-making, and analyzing data. Of course, we’re not the only ones interested in using…