This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 24)
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Summary
This week, New York Times podcast ‘Hard Fork’ interviewed Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google-owned AI company DeepMind, on his views of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and the consequences of its arrival.
Reporting suggests that China is assembling the world’s first supercomputer in space, comprised of 12 satellites capable of collectively managing five peta operations per second.
CRISPR has been used to edit the genome of spiders to produce red fluorescent silk.
Tech Crunch reported that Klarna’s earnings call this week was led by an AI avatar of CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski.
Medicine and robotics are highlighted in two separate articles with very similar headlines reporting that “Robots are starting to make decisions in the operating room” and “Decisions in the operating room are starting to be made by robots”.
Following our report last week on the possibility of a rolling cyber pandemic, readers may be interested in this article which suggests “It’s time to stop investing in cyber defences”.
