As of 2017, the world has entered an AI arms race. Over forty organizations worldwide are doing active research on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Project Maven is just one example of military application for AI.
Singularity project[]
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- Google 2029, see also Technological singularity
- Sophia, see also Sophia (robot)
In the News[]
- 2018 Apr 24. The Register, Good news: AI could solve the pension crisis – by triggering a nuclear apocalypse by 2040—New US RAND report predicts a grim technological future, by Katyanna Quach
- 2018 Apr 17. The Register, Pentagon sticks to its guns: Yep, we're going with a single cloud services provider, by Rebecca Hill
- 2018 Apr 10, Foreign Policy. Zuckerberg: We’re in an ‘Arms Race’ With Russia, but AI Will Save Us, by ELIAS GROLL
- 2018 Apr 5. ZDNet, Researchers boycott Korean university over 'killer robot' AI weapons lab, by Asha McLean (see article AI arms race)
- 2018 Apr 5. ZDNet, Google employees protest: 'Stop work on AI for Pentagon drone video analysis', by Liam Tung
- 2018 Apr 4. NY Times,‘The Business of War’: Google Employees Protest Work for the Pentagon, by Scott Shane and Daisuke Wakabayashi
- 2018 Apr 4. GIZMODO, Thousands of Google Employees Protest Company's Involvement in Pentagon AI Drone Program, by Bryan Menegus
- 2018 Mar 26. Reuters, With new plan, Macron wants France to win AI 'arms race', by Michel Rose
- 2018 Mar 12. ZDNet, AI 'more dangerous than nukes': Elon Musk still firm on regulatory oversight, by Asha McLean
- 2018 Mar 02. The Wall Street Journal. The New Arms Race in AI, by Julian E. Barnes and Josh Chin
- 2017 Nov 29. CNN, US risks losing artificial intelligence arms race to China and Russia, by Zachary Cohen
- 2017 Sep 08. Wired, FOR SUPERPOWERS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FUELS NEW GLOBAL ARMS RACE, by Tom Simonite
- 2017 Sep 06. The Register, Huawei's many-headed beast of a cloud wants a serious bite of the action, by Chris Mellor
- 2017 Sep 04. New York Post, Elon Musk warns that AI arms race could spark WWIII, by Jasper Hamill
- 2017, Jul 21. DOD, Project Maven to Deploy Computer Algorithms to War Zone by Year’s End, by Cheryl Pellerin
See also[]
Resources[]
- Wikipedia, Artificial intelligence arms race
- Wikipedia, Military robot
- Wikipedia, Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge