Ilya Sutskever, to figure out how to stop ahypothetical superintelligence from going rogue. “I’m very interested in getting guarantees,” he says. “If you can do amazing things but you can’t really control it, then it’s not so amazing. What good is a car that can drive...
A number of companies aren't sounding very optimistic. At IBM, we have a different view. The reason why is best understood in terms of five key factors that differentiate our company today. 1. Our global reach and scale. IBM's global operations are accelerating our company's growth. IBM ...
It doesn’t take a genius to notice this and worry that you might be next. When faced with an unpatched exploit, people will adapt their behavior to mitigate the danger regardless. Worse, in the eyes of the justice seekers, this is a good thing, for their ends are being achieved—in t...
In Windows (you have this program even if you aren't a developer) go to the Start Menu and run "Charmap." Look around and you can see U+2019 is Right Single Quotation Mark. Note that it's WAY down in the list of all the characters. It's not a basic charac...