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Elon Musk Warns On Runaway Artificial Intelligence

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Elon Musk , the technology mogul and visionary who has brought us such technology innovations widespread electronic payments via PayPal, electric cars via Tesla Motors , and commercial rocket service via SpaceX , warns that artificial intelligence has the threat of becoming mankind''s "biggest existential threat" last week.

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Elon Musk Backs Billion Dollar Artificial Intelligence Effort

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Elon Musk , the billionaire technology mogul behind SpaceX, has put some money behind--surprisingly--an effort to help developer artificial intelligence research.

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What Is xAI? Elon Musk Reveals New Startup To Rival OpenAI

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Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies. Will xAI Rival OpenAI?

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RivetAI Targets Hollywood With AI Tools

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Can artificial intelligence help Hollywood unlock more creativity from storytellers? Los Angeles-based RivetAI hopes it can, saying Thursday that it has launched to apply artificial intelligence technology to help assist storytellers in planning and producing content. READ MORE>>.

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SpaceX's Elon Musk Puts Up $10M To Fend Off Killer Robot Armies

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Technology mogul and visionary Elon Musk has publicly stated that he doesn''t like the idea of runaway artificial intelligence --and has just donated $10M of his own money to a group aimed at fending off unfriendly AI. killer robotics google skynet turing life research intelligence artificial army robot musk elon spacex'

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9 Strategies For Implementing An Innovative Business

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More success has been logged with companies like Amazon, which lightly funds many business model experiments each year, and is not hesitant to pivot or learn from failures. Look for technologies to adapt from other domains. Insights from these technologies are often not seen by the original inventor industries.

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Parallel Systems Picks Up $49.55M For Autonomous Trains

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Culver City-based Parallel Systems, a startup developing autonomous train and transportation technology, said today that it has raised $49.55M in a Series A funding round. The company's founders are engineers from SpaceX, Google, and Tesla. The company is led by CEO Matt Soule.

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