Commentary First shots were fired last October when the United States passed the CHIPS and Science Act. It aimed directly at Beijing’s ambition to become the world’s preeminent maker of advanced computer chips. The law offers a significant subsidy for semiconductor manufacturers to establish and expand operations domestically. It also limits the ability to export…
The Chips War Heats Up
February 11, 2023
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New Artificial Intelligence App ‘Reframes’ Negative Thoughts to Treat Depression
January 31, 2023
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People can be forgiven for feeling depressed these days. The future touted by global leaders is dire. The 2021-2022 United Nations Human Development Report states that living standards have declined in nine out of ten countries around the world since 2020 and that multiple crises “are hitting us at the same time and interacting to…
UK MP Asks Expert About Risks of AI and Is Told ‘It Could Kill Everyone’
A committee of MPs has been hearing evidence of the risks of a “dystopian future” in which artificial intelligence (AI) takes over the world and humans are wiped out, akin to the plot of the film “The Terminator.” At a hearing of Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee, Conservative MP Tracey Crouch asked Michael Cohen, a doctoral…
New York City Public Schools Block AI Chatbot Over Cheating Concerns
January 6, 2023
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The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) has blocked OpenAI’s ChatGPT service access on its networks and devices amid fears that students will use it to cheat on assignments and other school tasks. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot capable of producing content mimicking human speech. Accessible for free, the service can be used…
AI Chatbot Goes Online to Fight Sextortion
One in three Australians experience image-based sexual abuse, but many don’t know where to go for help. However, researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology have developed a world-first artificial intelligence chatbot, Umibot, which they hope will encourage victims to report incidents of image-based abuse and find support. At present, image-based abuse has spiralled…
New AI Technology Detects Cancer Mutations in Minutes
HAIFA, Israel—A new Israeli technology that analyzes digitized biopsy images in real time enables the detection of cancer mutations in a few minutes instead of a few weeks. This artificial intelligence (AI) tool was an initiative of a young computer scientist who lost his mother five years ago to ovarian cancer. Dean Bitan, 34, told…
New US Chip Ban Could Cripple Chinese Development of AI and Supercomputers
October 29, 2022
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As every aspect of modern life becomes digitized, not just the economies of nations but their sovereign influence will increasingly rely on the command of technology, with supercomputers being a centerpiece of the competition. On Oct. 7, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced sweeping new export controls that will cut China off from cutting-edge chipmaking equipment and certain advanced…
Operation Space Clean Up: Researchers Develop Novel Garbage Collection Methods
September 22, 2022
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Australian researchers have set their sights on cleaning up the outer space junkyard orbiting Earth to avoid a chain reaction of self-sustaining debris collisions, using lasers and artificial intelligence technology. Space debris expert Don Kessler, from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was reported by The Age, as the first to notice that space is…
US Restricts Nvidia Corp. From Selling AI Chips to China and Russia, Company Says
September 1, 2022
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Tech firm Nvidia Corp. has been told by Washington not to sell two of its artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration chips to Beijing and Moscow, potentially affecting millions of dollars’ worth of revenues. “On August 26, 2022, the U.S. government, or USG, informed NVIDIA Corporation, or the Company, that the USG has imposed a new license…
Man Hatches Plan Using Robot Dogs, AI to Find $181 Million in Bitcoin Accidentally Thrown in Garbage Dump
A man who accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoins has hatched an $11 million plan to get them back again with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). James Howells, from the city of Newport, in southern Wales, unintentionally threw the hard drive containing the Bitcoins in a garbage bin back in 2013, and has been desperately searching…
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