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Did an AI-enabled drone attack the human operator in a simulation environment?
Apparently no, this was a purely hypothetical scenario, and the US Air Force has not run that experiment. This is the content of an update made today (2 June 2023) to the original blog post on the ...
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Did an AI-enabled drone attack the human operator in a simulation environment?
According to the Vice article, the Air Force has denied the story:
"The Department of the Air Force has not conducted any such AI-drone simulations [...]," Air Force spokesperson Ann ...
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Did the Windows XP CD include Microsoft Bob?
This is very likely to be true
This story is verified by the programmer, Dave Plummer, who included the encrypted copy of Bob on the XP installer. He talks about it in a video on his YouTube channel ...
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Are (modern) computers/AI (only) as intelligent as Apises (Bees)?
Bees have 1 million neurons and ~1 billion connections
This is reflected in the complicated brain structure and anatomy, with
around 1 million neurons and an estimated billion synapses in the
honey ...
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