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...“How much influence DeepMind keeps . . . greatly affects how responsible [Google] will be,” said Dan Hendrycks, research director of the Center for AI Safety....
...This threatens to stifle Chinese technology groups, including Baidu, which are still reliant on US computer chips....
...Expanding on historical work by Empirical Research, I looked at previous waves of innovation from the rise of mainframes in the late 1960s to personal computers in the early 1980s, the internet in 2000 and...
...Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple are behind an increase in funding to four of Washington’s most prestigious research groups: the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Center for a New American...
...(Pimco) — The PagerDuty CEO who quoted Martin Luther King in her mass sacking email is v v v sorry....
...Meanwhile, a study co-commissioned by Google and published by the Computer & Communications Industry Association in September, declared that 85 per cent of productivity software used by US government agencies...
...University of Oxford, who works on smart devices and was not involved with either research paper....
...At the same time, Intel earnings revealed an unexpectedly strong bounce in sales of chips for personal computers, as more people bought laptops to work and study from home, as well as more powerful gaming...
...Think AT&T’s Bell Labs, which at its 1960s peak “employed 15,000 people, of whom about 1,200 had PhDs”, or Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Centre, which can lay claim to being the originator of the computer mouse...
...Until now, most if not all Google smartphones and Microsoft-built computers have been made in China....
...The Google Health paper was authored in collaboration with the Cancer Research UK Imperial Centre, Northwestern University in Illinois, and the Royal Surrey County Hospital....
...The research paper claimed that Google’s quantum processor was able to perform a calculation in three minutes and 20 seconds that would take today’s most advanced classical computer, known as Summit, approximately...
...Ascension said the “groundbreaking work” will help improve care and that Google is not allowed to use the data for marketing or research purposes....
...This arm commercialises DM’s fundamental research work, and largely comprised its healthcare division....
...Waymo, which has the longest-running autonomous car testing programme after starting out in 2009 as the Google self-driving car project, now spends two to three weeks training its “basic” operators....
...“We want Google and Alphabet to be successful and to get benefit out of the research we’re doing....
...Among other big carmakers, Toyota Research Institute said its drivers had to take control once every 2.5 miles, while Mercedes-Benz put the figure at once every 1.5 miles....
...Google disputed the implications of the research, saying it mischaracterised “ordinary functions” such as an app reporting back when it had crashed and its analytics....
...“People have got very curious about how a computer without a display can be a useful tool” at work....
...Legislators in Illinois are proposing a controversial ban on the collection of facial recognition data....
...They included a new voice technology called Google Duplex, which is designed to enable computers to hold natural-sounding phone calls with humans, and a series of “suggested actions” for users of Google...
...Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy, by George Gilder The economist and tech advocate takes the reader through the evolution of Google from the beginning, and...
...Since then, Mr Pichai has met Chinese officials on more than one occasion and Google has embarked on a series of new projects in China including an AI research centre in Beijing, a relaunch of its Google...
...But DeepMind didn’t unveil a research initiative until late last year to guide its thinking on ethics, and has not disclosed the identities of outside experts working on the project....
...“The line can’t be drawn with the technology per se,” said Stuart Russell, a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley....
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