No tricks here, the Tuesday Grail news briefs are all above board…
- FBI investigating missing ancient treasures from British Museum.
- Will ET or AI represent our first encounter with superhuman intelligence? Maybe they’ll be one and the same?
- Related: Alien A.I. – speculation on UFOs as vanguards of a post-biological intelligence.
- In ultimate irony, police officers are turning to psychedelics to overcome trauma.
- Recent and extensive volcanism discovered on Venus.
- Dead hand or something else? A possible explanation for strange numbers station UVB-76.
- Neanderthals could talk — but how sophisticated was their language?
- The Higgs boson’s most captivating puzzle still remains.
- Man finds three mammoth skeletons in his wine cellar.
- Google’s AI tells users to add glue to their pizza, eat rocks and make chlorine gas.
- Image of the Day: Earth is an alien planet.
Quote of the Day:
The fears of superintelligent AI are probably genuine on the part of the doomsayers. That doesn’t mean they reflect a real threat; what they reflect is the inability of technologists to conceive of moderation as a virtue. Billionaires like Bill Gates and Elon Musk assume that a superintelligent AI will stop at nothing to achieve its goals because that’s the attitude they adopted.
Ted Chiang
