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There's a well-known thought experiment in the world of artificial intelligence that poses a simple, but potentially very scary, question: what if we asked a super-intelligent AI to make paperclips? This may not sound terrifying at first, but as Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom (who first described the parable) explains, it all depends on how well we've trained the AI. If we've given it common sense, it might ask us: "How many paperclips do you want?" If it doesn't know to ask, it might just make paperclips forever. And, if it's a super-intelligent AI that we've accidentally forgotten to program with any human ethics or values, it might decide that the most efficient way to make paperclips is to wipe out humanity and terraform the planet into one giant paperclip-making factory.

Published: December 24, 2024 6.50am CET Michael Timothy Bennett, Australian National University, Elija Perrier, Stanford University A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure "general intelligence". On December 20, OpenAI's o3 system scored 85% on the ARC-AGI benchmark, well above the previous AI best score of 55% and on par with the average human score. It also scored well on a very difficult mathematics test.

Challenges of a digital society and response of Dutch universities. One programme, seven themes: Citizenship & Democracy, Responsible Data Science, Health & Well-Being Learning & Education, Work & Organisations, Digital Cities & Communities, Safety & Security

Computational Thinking (CT) is a problem solving process that includes a number of characteristics and dispositions. CT is essential to the development of computer applications, but it can also be used to support problem solving across all disciplines, including the humanities, math, and science. Students who learn CT across the curriculum can begin to see a relationship between academic subjects, as well as between life inside and outside of the classroom."

Google Duplex, the automated service that calls up businesses to make bookings on your behalf, has received a limited public launch, reports VentureBeat. In a statement, Google said that it's starting its "slow rollout" of the service, which is now available to a "small group" of Google Pixel phone owners in "select cities." As well as expanding its availability with users, the service can also call restaurants that Google hasn't explicitly partnered with.

I got a butt massage by an AI robot in L.A. I Here's how it went

As AI pushes the boundaries of chip design, it raises a dilemma: can we trust systems we don't fully understand?