Top news of the week: 01.12.2021.
Applied Use Cases
Robot Arm Clock | The MagPi #112
A deliberately over-engineered timepiece provided a satisfying distraction for a busy software engineer. Long live this broken clock.
UK spy chief: ‘The risk of Chinese miscalculation through overconfidence is real’
Richard Moore, the chief of British secret intelligence service MI6, is concerned that China could make a "miscalculation" because it is overconfident.
A cascading catastrophe: The drone threat to critical infrastructure
As drones become cheaper and more capable tools for terrorists, the risks they pose to critical infrastructure is growing. Has the US government thought enough about how to defend the ...
Professor Michael Bronstein appointed as DeepMind Professor of Artificial Intelligence
We are very happy to announce the appointment of Professor Michael Bronstein to the DeepMind Professorship of Artificial Intelligence. He is a Member of Academia Europaea, Fellow …
Visible Thoughts Project and Bounty Announcement
We at MIRI are soliciting help with an AI-alignment project centered around building a dataset, described below. We have $200,000 in prizes for building the first fragments of the dataset, ...
UK government publishes pioneering standard for algorithmic transparency
The Central Digital and Data Office has launched an algorithmic transparency standard for government departments and public sector bodies, strengthening the UK’s position as a world leader ...
Team builds first living robots—that can reproduce
AI-designed Xenobots reveal entirely new form of biological self-replication—promising for regenerative medicine
The Holiday Shopping Season Starts … Right Now?
This year, it looks like the peak holiday shopping season will be a month longer. Here’s how retailers can make the most of it.