ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

How to Stop Superhuman AI Before It Stops UsStuart Russell | The New York TimesOnce the focus shifts from building machines that are intelligent to ones that are beneficial, controlling them will become a far easier feat. Consider it the difference between nuclear power and nuclear explosions: a nuclear explosion is nuclear power in an uncontrolled form, and we greatly prefer the controlled form.

This Girls Dramatic Story Shows Hyper-Personalized Medicine Is Possibleand CostlyErika Check Hayden | MIT Technology Reviewin a dramatic demonstration of the power of personalized medicine, doctors in Boston created a treatment just for [six-year-old Mila Makovec]. In only eight months, they found the genetic cause of Milas disease, designed a drug to overcome the error, and began giving it to Mila via an injection in her spine, in whats believed to be the first individually tailored treatment of its kind.

Waymo Tells Customers That Completely Driverless Vehicles Are on the WayAndrew J. Hawkins | The VergeIts a sign that Waymo is growing confident enough in its technology to increase the frequency at which it allows passengers to ride in autonomous vehicles without a safety driver behind the wheel.

Virgin Orbit Says It Wants to Send Tiny Spacecraft to Mars in 2022Neel V. Patel | MIT Technology ReviewIf it succeeds, Virgin Orbit will be the first commercial company to travel to the Red Planet. It will also mark an unexpected entrance into deep spaceflight for a company whose plansfocus on air launches, which have always been considered unsuitable for traveling beyond low Earth orbit.

Jeff Bezoss Master PlanFranklin Foer | The AtlanticWhere in the pantheon of American commercial titans does Jeffrey Bezos belong? At 55, Bezos has never dominated a major market as thoroughly as any of these forebears, and while he is presently the richest man on the planet, he has less wealth than Gates did at his zenith. [But] the scope of the empire the founder and CEO of Amazon has built is wider. Indeed, it is without precedent in the long history of American capitalism.

Meet the Robot Racing Drone That Could Beat Human Pilots by 2023Stephen Shankland | CNETSince 2016, the human pilots of theDrone Racing Leaguehave competed to see who could whip a quadcopter around pylons and through hoops the fastest. On Tuesday, theyll get a new challenge: the fully autonomous RacerAI, adroneprogrammed to fly itself.

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