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Elon Musk Says AI Will Be Smarter In 10 Years Than Humans, Who Will Have A 'Much Higher Standard Of Living'
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 5:56pm | 590Billionaire Elon Musk broke down the positives and negatives from the growth of robots and artificial intelligence in a new interview, including a fearful projection of the potential of robots taking over the world in an interview with Sen. Ted Cruz. Growth of AI, Robots: Musk had plenty of answers...
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Could Open Source Have Thwarted Terminator's Skynet? Here's What Meta's Llama 2 AI Thinks
Monday, October 30, 2023 - 4:24am | 592Asking an AI system what it thinks of a takeover by another AI system might seem a little too on the nose. But someone did just that, asking Meta Platforms Inc.'s (NASDAQ:META) Llama 2 AI what it thinks of an open-source version of Skynet. What Happened: A user asked Meta's Llama 2 AI about the...
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Fintech Focus For October 16, 2020
Thursday, October 15, 2020 - 6:42pm | 2217Quote Of The Day: Cowboy innovation is worse than no innovation at all. - Alan Konevsky Fintech Movers: The shift toward touchless payments is dramatic, with 8x more earnings calls mentions vs. last year. - CB Insights Metromile eyes insurance transparency. Intel bought digital currency for 5...
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Let SkyNet References Continue: Amazon's Alexa And Microsoft's Cortana Will Soon Be Able To Communicate
Wednesday, August 30, 2017 - 8:21am | 602Elon Musk isn't going to happy with Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT)'s joint announcement. Musk, the CEO of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), has been very vocal about his opposition to artificial intelligence and robotics that could lead to the end of...
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Save Us From Killer Robots, Elon Musk
Monday, August 21, 2017 - 11:21am | 363Robots were responsible for killing billions of people and enslaving the surviving human race in the "Terminator" franchise. In 2017, the threat of this happening is more real than what many had jokingly brushed off as science fiction. Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk...
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This Fund Will Try To Prevent Skynet From Actually Happening
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - 1:37pm | 294Skynet, the fictional artificial intelligence system popularized in the "Terminator" franchise which caused a global nuclear war, serves as a far-stretched but legitimate concern for many companies working in the artificial intelligence space. Consider the fact that Alphabet Inc's...
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Is This How Skynet Starts? Samsung's Robot Vacuum Can Take Orders From Amazon's Echo
Thursday, December 29, 2016 - 12:13pm | 377Skynet, the fictional artificial intelligence system popularized in the Terminator franchise, might come to many people's minds once they learn that Samsung's robotic vacuum can be controlled by Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s artificial intelligence assistant Echo. Inter-Machine...
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Google Is Developing A 'Big Red Button' For Its AI Technology
Friday, June 3, 2016 - 10:40am | 325Skynet was the name given to the fictional superintillgent system that nearly wiped out humanity in the popular "Terminator" franchise. Skynet was originally a military system designed to remove human decision and error from all military applications. However, the system began to...
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Manchester United Expands TV Deal to Boost Revenue, Awaits New CEO (MANU)
Friday, June 21, 2013 - 10:12am | 873English Premier League heavyweights Manchester United (NYSE: MANU) Friday announced that their proprietary television channel has now expanded to an additional two countries. The news comes as CEO David Gill is set to step down at the end of the month after 16 years at the helm. 56 Territories...
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Mensch of the Week-Google
Friday, May 21, 2010 - 12:00pm | 893My father always told me to be careful what you put on the internet. He never approved of Facebook, abhorred the idea of Twitter, and never understood why people blog. When I got my new phone in November, he couldn’t bear to watch how much time I spent texting, and surfing the web, and doing all...