Lifeboat Foundation

BRUSSELS NATO plans to spend 3 billion euros ($3.24 billion) to upgrade its satellite and computer technology over the next three years as the Western military alliance adapts to new threats, a senior official said.

Seeking to deter hackers, and other threats including Iranian missiles, the investments underscore NATO’s recognition that conflicts are increasingly fought on computer networks as well as in the air, on land and at sea.

A senior official at the NATO Communications and Information Agency said the plans include a 1.7-billion-euro investment in satellite communications to better support troops and ships deployed across the alliance, as well as aiding the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones.

The Moon as a collecting point for solar energy for use on Earth and maybe even into the outer solar system.

One man’s decades-long dream of harnessing sunlight from the lunar surface.

“Now, Xiao said, he imagines a future where kids don’t have to depend on their parents to drive them around, for instance, and can instead summon a self-driving ride.”

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The fear that automation in the form of robots or artificial intelligence is going to destroy jobs is widespread. But it can be difficult to gauge just how serious to take the threat. Different reports offer different estimations of how many jobs will be lost, while politicians and economists argue that technology creates as many jobs as it destroys, maintaining an equilibrium in employment over the long run.

But is this really true? A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research aims to add some solid numbers to the debate, looking at the historical effects of robots on employment in the US. Economists Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo studied the US labor market between 1990 and 2007, looking at employment rates in different areas and industries while controlling for the influence of factors like increased imports from China and the offshoring of jobs.

Intelligent Machines

Nvidia’s deep-learning chips may give medicine a shot in the arm.

The company sees medicine as the next big market for its machine-learning hardware.

Continue reading “Nvidia says deep learning is about to revolutionize medicine” »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLKmKqrNUKY

Confronting A.I.

Joe Rogan Experience.

Continue reading “Joe Rogan and Lawrence Krauss on artificial intelligence” »

Intelligent Machines

AI, quantum computing will accelerate materials discovery.

IBM’s Watson is already at work developing novel polymers.

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  James Temple

• March 28, 2017

Why waste life worrying about what could go wrong? Focus on what could go right!

Elon Musk wants to connect your brain to a computer.