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The future of global security hinges on societal resilience
Defence debates tend to focus on firepower. But the most destabilising risks may come from something far harder to quantify: the fraying of social trust, the manipulation of truth, and the erosion of the middle class.
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Human-like Computers By 2029?
Back in 2014, Ray Kurzweil, famous futurist and "Googler," made a stark prediction: by 2029, we would have human-like computers. Now, only a decade away, we look at whether this prediction still makes sense.
Will AI Bring The Apocalypse?
The Singularity. This idea of technology improving itself ever more rapidly and having a profound impact in society (and possibly leading to the extinction of our own species) is not new. It has been around since I. J. Good described an "intelligence explosion" in 1965, and has been the subject of many sci-fi novels and movies, most of which with a dark ending for human civilization.
Another Breakthrough for AI
AI won the most complex strategy game known to humankind. After defeating the brilliant Lee Sedol with a 4-1 win last year, DeepMind’s AlphaGo, which is part of Alphabet (Google), continued to make improvements to its AI, culminating in a 3-0 win over the game's number 1 player and 19-year-old prodigy, Ke Jie. The question is: what is AlphaGo next move?