by admin | May 18, 2023 | AI, evolution, Internet News, News, society, The Conversation
The artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Geoffrey Hinton recently resigned from Google, warning of the dangers of the technology “becoming more intelligent than us”. His fear is that AI will one day succeed in “manipulating people to do what it wants”. There are...
by admin | Dec 1, 2022 | Cyborg, evolution, future, News, Other Tech News, Technology News, The Conversation, transhumanism
Most species are transitory. They go extinct, branch into new species or change over time due to random mutations and environmental shifts. A typical mammalian species can be expected to exist for a million years. Modern humans, Homo sapiens, have been around for...
by admin | Nov 20, 2022 | Earth, evolution, News, Other Tech News, Science, The Conversation
November 15 2022 marks a milestone for our species, as the global population hits 8 billion. Just 70 years ago, within a human lifetime, there were only 2.5 billion of us. In AD1, fewer than one-third of a billion. So how have we been so successful? Humans are not...
by admin | Oct 10, 2022 | evolution, News, Nobel Prize, Other Tech News, Science, The Conversation
The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. In other words,...
