Published April 4, 2025 6:00am EDT close High-tech canopy lets you live off-grid with endless power and water The EO Canopy is a fully self-sustaining, solar-powered camping platform. Have you ever dreamed of escaping the hustle of daily life to live off-grid in the wilderness surrounded by nature but without sacrificing modern comforts?The EO Canopy, a groundbreaking product by Electric Outdoors, is here to make that dream a reality.Combining cutting-edge technology with sustainable energy solutions, this off-grid camping platform is revolutionizing outdoor living for adventurers, EV drivers and landowners alike.STAY PROTECTED & INFORMED! GET SECURITY ALERTS & EXPERT TECH TIPS SIGN UP FOR KURTS THE CYBERGUY REPORT NOW EO Canopy (Electric Outdoors)A new era of sustainable campingThe EO Canopy is not a trailer. Its a fully self-sustaining, solar-powered camping platform designed to provide all the comforts of home while completely off the grid. From generating its own energy and water to offering satellite internet and EV charging capabilities, the EO Canopy is built for those who want to explore remote destinations without compromising on convenience or sustainability.Key FeaturesMassive solar power generation: Equipped with a 6,600-watt solar-tracking roof, the EO Canopy can generate 45-64 kWh of power per day, which is enough to charge two homes or add 150 miles to an EV.154-kWh sodium-ion battery: This powerful battery bank ensures an uninterrupted energy supply and can be expanded for even greater capacity.Atmospheric water generator: It produces up to 18 gallons of purified drinking water daily from thin air, stored in a 100-gallon tank.Incineration toilet: It efficiently handles waste by converting it into ash with minimal energy usage.Connectivity anywhere: With built-in Starlink satellite internet and an AWS IoT cloud backbone, you can stay connected no matter how remote your location is.Comfortable living space: It features a kitchenette with an induction cooktop, wet bath with recirculating shower, LED mood lighting and flexible sleeping arrangements for up to four people. EO Canopy (Electric Outdoors)For landowners: Unlock new opportunitiesThe EO Canopy isnt just for campers; its also a game-changer for landowners. By deploying these units on remote properties, landowners can bypass costly infrastructure investments and tap into a growing market of eco-conscious travelers. The platforms portability eliminates the need for permits or permanent construction, making it an ideal solution for creating unique glamping experiences or generating additional income streams.WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)? EO Canopy (Electric Outdoors)For campers: Luxury meets adventureWhether youre an EV driver worried about range anxiety or an overlander looking for sustainable adventure, the EO Canopy has you covered. Its robust energy system powers everything from air conditioning to Level 2 EV charging stations. Plus, its indoor-outdoor design with sliding barn doors and a shaded patio offers the perfect blend of comfort and immersion in nature. EO Canopy (Electric Outdoors)Tested in Michigan's Upper PeninsulaElectric Outdoors launched its first pilot program in Michigans Upper Peninsula in collaboration with Innovate Marquette SmartZone. This region was chosen for its rugged beauty and commitment to sustainable outdoor recreation. The pilot program allows users to experience the EO Canopy firsthand while providing valuable insights for future developments.Josef Hjelmaker, founder and CEO of Electric Outdoors, expressed his excitement: "The EO Canopy is designed to bring a top-notch glamping experience to EV drivers, overlanders and other campers who want to get away from the hustle of daily life without sacrificing creature comforts."GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE EO Canopy (Electric Outdoors)What does the EO Canopy cost?OK, let's talk price. The EO Canopy will set you back about $150,000 to start. But when you consider everything you're getting a fully self-sufficient, solar-powered, water-making, internet-connected base camp that price tag starts to make a lot more sense. EO Canopy (Electric Outdoors)Kurt's key takeawaysThe EO Canopy's got everything you need to live your best wilderness life without giving up Netflix or hot showers. I mean, who wouldn't want to charge their EV while making s'mores in the middle of nowhere? Sure, the $150,000 price tag might make your wallet wince, but for the chance to be a high-tech hermit with all the comforts of home? The EO Canopy might just be your ticket to the great outdoors 2.0. Just don't be surprised if you never want to come back to civilization again.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPIf you could design your dream EO Canopy experience, what features or customizations would you include? 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Formed in 1975, Microsoft is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, having powered the personal computing revolution first with MS-DOS, and then with Windows.In the 1980s, it demonstrated thanks to the IBM Project Chess, one of the first personal computers that business computing could be accessed by anyone and wasnt simply a task to be left to the bods who worked in server rooms.And thanks to VisiCalc a spreadsheet program that had originally been written for the Apple II when the IBM PC arrived in 1981, it had a killer application, enabling business users to crunch away at numbers without having to send requests to the data processing department.But the 1990s marked a shift in personal computing from the command-line interface of the MS-DOS operating system to a graphical user interface (GUI) with Windows.There was also the break-up of the marriage between IBM and Microsoft, which had served both companies so well. IBM went on to push an operating system called OS/2 to its die-hard customers, and began talking to Apple and Motorola to develop a rival to the PCs x86 architecture, called PowerPC.Meanwhile, Microsoft had been working to get its buggy Windows GUI fixed. Things only really started improving in 1990 with the availability of Windows 3. By 1993, it was beginning to develop a server operating system, Windows NT, to run the SQL Server relational database, which, incidentally, began life as a joint venture with Sybase and Ashton-Tate, and originally ran on the IBM OS/2 operating system.At that time, some amazing developments were taking place. The World Wide Web was starting to take shape and was available to anyone thanks to the Mosaic browser. And in 1995, Windows 95 was launched Microsofts first fully GUI-based operating system.Meanwhile, Linux was gaining traction as an alternative to proprietary Unix servers in the datacentre. Microsoft wanted to grab a piece of this market, so, in 1996, it introduced Exchange, an email server that ran on top of the Windows NT Server operating system.By the turn of the century, Microsofts server offerings were beginning to take shape, thanks in part to the stability of the rebranded server operating system first Windows 2000, then Windows Server 2003.Meanwhile, on the desktop, Microsoft was trying to get people to move to Windows XP, but many users stuck with the older Windows Me operating system. This is something that has continued to affect Windows users with each new version.In October this year, Microsoft will introduce its latest version of Windows. Windows 10 will be officially retiredin the same month, and users of Windows 11, which was launched in October 2021, will have five years to migrate to the new operating system.While many organisations are well-versed in this five-year cycle, with IT teams geared up to updating the desktop estate, the upgrade to a new version of Windows tends to raise the minimum level of hardware that the operating system will run on. This means older hardware may not be compatible with the new operating system, which then drives up purchases of new PCs.Over the past year, Microsoft has also been getting its customers ready for the age of artificial intelligence (AI) on the desktop, where every PC will need a neural processing unit (NPU) to run local AI inference tasks.Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously chanted developers as he clapped and walked across the stage at a Microsoft software developer event.One of the things Paul Allen and Bill Gates realised when they formed Microsoft in 1975 was the power of supporting a software developer community. It began with Microsoft Basic which stands for beginners all-symbolic instruction code to provide a programming language for the worlds first microcomputer, the Altair 8080. The Basic interpreter was widely licensed, which meant popular home computers of the 1980s included variants of Microsoft Basic.With Windows, it introduced a software developer kit (SDK) in a bid to create an ecosystem for developers to write software that could run on the new Microsoft platform. This not only opened the floodgates to the development of Windows applications, but also led to Windows-based integrated development environments (IDEs), which allow software developers to write and test code within a single user interface. Microsofts own IDE, Visual Studio, has become a de facto standard for Windows developers.Throughout its history, Microsoft has focused on creating standards to help drive the adoption of its technology. The PC used to be described as an industry standard architecture (ISA), which enables Windows to run, and the annals of computing are littered with now-defunct Microsoft-led industry standards and attempts at open standards.It has committed to publishing technical documents for protocols implemented in Windows Client, Windows Server, Office, SharePoint, Exchange Server and SQL Server, which are used to communicate with other Microsoft software products. The goal for Microsoft is that by using these protocols, third-party developers are creating products that use Microsoft products.Its business practices regarding these protocols, and the fact that it has bundled functionality into Windows, mean Microsoft has often found itself on the wrong side of competition laws. In 2000, it was found guilty of anti-competitive practices after bundling its Internet Explorer browser in Windows. And more recently, EU regulators fined Microsoft 2.2bn for bundling Teams with its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 products.There was a time when Microsoft was going head-to-head with the likes of Red Hat and SuSE to position Windows Server as an alternative to Linux and open source technology in the datacentre. But, in many ways, the company has had to embrace open source to keep developers happy.In a breathtaking move, it acquired the open source repository GitHub in 2016 for $7.6bn.Windows also includes a Linux subsystem, which enables Linux administrators to use the command line tools they are accustomed to within the Windows environment.Despite Amazon Web Services (AWS) being the first public cloud, Microsoft has steadily grown its Azure public cloud to become a major rival. Part of its success is that the company has a long history of working with Windows enterprise customers.Just as many of its products have become embedded in corporate IT, Microsofts relationship with these customers has put it in a prime position to cross-sell and upsell Azure and cloud-based services. Looking at the fourth quarter 2024 market share data among the leading cloud providers, Amazon is top at 30%, followed by Microsoft with 21% and Google Cloud at 12%.Microsofts 2023 $10bn investment in OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, enabled the company to propel itself forward in the era of AI and is likely to bolster its public cloud growth.Our assessment is that since ChatGPT was launched, GenAI [generative AI] has been responsible for at least half of the increase in cloud service revenues. That has come from either newly launched GenAI/GPU [graphics processor unit] services or from AI-driven improvements to existing cloud services, said John Dinsdale, chief research analyst at Synergy Research Group.Satya Nadella has been CEO of Microsoft since 2014. Under his leadership, the company has become a leading AI business, but one of the questions Microsoft is likely to face going forward is how it will evolve LinkedIn, which it acquired in 2016 for over $26bn.According to a transcript of its second quarter 2025 results, the professional social media network has an annual revenue of $2.2bn and is expected to experience low to mid single-digit growth this year.However, Microsoft has yet to make its position clear on how LinkedIn fits alongside the rest of its enterprise software portfolio.Read more about Microsoft run-ins with legislatorsMicrosoft hit with 1bn UK legal claim over anti-competitive cloud licensing tactics: A legal claim, valued at more than 1bn, has been filed with the UKs Competition Appeal Tribunal regarding Microsofts controversial cloud licensing tactics.European Commission declares Microsofts bundling of Teams with M365 anti-competitive: The European Commission has informed Microsoft of its preliminary view that bundling Microsoft with its Office 365 suite is anti-competitive.

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNETSamsung's One UI 7 is my favorite Android skin right now. It is fast, responsive, and intuitive. But nothing comes fine-tuned to your experience straight out of the box. You need to personalize your smartphone to make it more appealing. I change almost a dozen settings on every Samsung Galaxy phone to best suit my needs, and I believe these will elevate your user experience, too. From setting the highest available screen resolution to more privacy-focused features, here are 11 Galaxy phone settings that I recommend changing to enhance your Galaxy phone experience. Please note that some settings might be phone-specific.1. Turn off pop-up notifications Prakhar Khanna/ZDNETI do not like it when a message from a contact or an intrusive app notification pops up while I am in the middle of reading online or texting my favorite people. I get distracted easily. If a notification pops up, I tap on it and forget what I was doing.If you are anything like me, you should change this setting even before switching to gesture navigation. Go to Notifications > Notification pop-up style > Apps to show as brief > Toggle off All apps. 2. Switch to gesture navigation Unless you are setting up your new Samsung Galaxy phone from an older model, it defaults to the older three-button navigation system. If you like it, that is fine. But I find Android's gesture navigation more intuitive -- everything is a swipe away instead of an on-screen button.If you want that, you can change the system navigation to gestures by going to Settings > Display > Navigation bar > Swipe gestures. 3. Set to the highest screen resolution Prakhar Khanna/ZDNETSamsung's Galaxy S25 Ultra has the best display on a smartphone right now. Thanks to second-generation Gorilla Armor, it is less reflective and displays colors better than its predecessor. You get a sharp QHD+ screen, but it is not set to that resolution by default. You need to go to Settings > Display > Screen resolution to get the best available display experience. It will use more battery, but the Ultra is an efficient smartphone. Even after maxing out the screen resolution, I still get an all-day battery life. 4. Change the side key's function Smartphones no longer have a "power button." It is called a side key or side button now, and it is one of my most disliked changes in recent times. Phone companies have renamed the power button to accommodate their smart assistants on long press. Google's Gemini is available by other methods, and Bixby is not as useful anyway, so I suggest changing the side key's function to offer a power menu. You can do so by going to Settings > Advanced features > Side button > Long Press > Power off menu. 5. Adjust lock screen notifications Prakhar Khanna/ZDNETOne UI 7 has changed how notifications appear on your lock screen. It is set to show icons on the top left corner by default, which is a big change from the previous card view. I prefer apps to show notifications in the latter form. To change this, you can go to Settings > Notifications > Lock screen notifications > Cards. I also hide sensitive notification content on the lock screen because I do not want anyone to walk up to my phone and see my personal messages. To change this setting, you can opt for Hide content under the same Lock screen notifications menu. 6. Sign in or sign up for a Samsung account I juggle between different phones but keep coming back to Samsung phones for One UI. Having a Samsung account is a big part of the user experience on Galaxy phones. From Samsung Wallet to Samsung's own password manager, I have a lot of information saved in them. Many might want to turn to Google Passwords for better cross-device functionality, but I still recommend signing up for a Samsung account to access Galaxy Themes (more on this below) and the Galaxy Store. It will also benefit you when you move from one Samsung phone to another with a seamless transfer. 7. Install this app Prakhar Khanna/ZDNETI recommend installing the Good Lock app from the Galaxy Store. It enables a slew of Samsung-exclusive features on your phone. I found the best use case for it when I was reviewing the Galaxy S25 Ultra. It features a module called Home Up that has a One Hand Operation+ function. Since the new Samsung flagship is a big phone, I set up a swipe down from the right edge to access Quick Settings. You can do the same for six shortcuts within the Short swipe and Long swipe gestures, and access many more features within the Good Lock app. 8. Uninstall the bloatware Samsung Galaxy phones come with many apps that you might not use. Unlike previous years, you can now uninstall or at least disable them to save memory. For example, I do not have a Samsung TV and do not want the Microsoft CoPilot app on my phone, so I uninstall TV and CoPilot, respectively. Other apps I disable or uninstall include Facebook, Samsung Tutor, and OneDrive. 9. Customize the home screen Prakhar Khanna/ZDNETSamsung has some of the best widgets on a phone. I love the Calendar widget because I can adjust the transparency. As a result, it looks better and keeps the functionality intact without disturbing the layout of my home screen. I have it located on the top so everything is just a glance away, yet it never asks for attention -- unlike other opaque Calendar widgets. I also change my icon grid to the 5x5 layout to accommodate more icons on the bottom-most row. They are just a thumb tap away. Additionally, I apply my wallpaper color tones to the app icons for a more pleasing look. You can go to Wallpaper and style > Color palette and toggle it on to apply wallpaper colors to the whole system. It is not perfect, and some icons might still not be supported. However, it looks better than the basic colors. 10. Fix always-on display You get efficient displays on Samsung phones -- make use of them and enable everything, including the Always On display. I like having the time, day, and date information right there on the screen, available at a quick glance. Samsung defaults it to the Tap to show setting, meaning you need to tap on the screen for information. I recommend changing that to Always to make it more functional. Go to Settings > Lock screen and AOD > Always-on Display > Always. You can choose if you want to display the wallpaper or not -- I have set it to just display a black screen so it does not drain more battery. Bonus. Revert changes to the Notification Panel Prakhar Khanna/ZDNETSamsung changed its notification panel design to an iOS-like drawer. A right swipe down gives you access to Quick Settings, whereas a swipe down from the left side of the screen gives you access to notifications. However, if you like the previous design better, you can change it. I like having my notifications under Quick Settings, like the good old days. To revert this new design element, swipe down from the top right corner of the home screen > Pencil icon > Panel Settings > Together. You can also edit the top quick settings within this menu. A few other things I do on my Galaxy phones include changing the keyboard to Google Keyboard and sorting the home drawer icons in alphabetical order so it is easier to navigate. Samsung phones are some of the best on the market. While they do not promise over-the-top features, they are reliable and offer the most polished user interface with One UI. Just adjust these few settings, and you are all set. Enjoy your new Galaxy phone! 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Baseball fans tuning into spring training games may have noticed another new wrinkle in a sport that's experienced a host of changes in recent years. Batters, pitchers and catchers can challenge a home plate umpire's ball or strike call.Powered by Hawk-Eye ball-tracking technology, the automated ball-strike system replays the pitch trajectory to determine whether the umpire's call was correct.To minimize disruptions, Major League Baseball permits each team a maximum of two failed challenges per game but allows unlimited challenges as long as they're successful. For now, the technology will be limited to the spring exhibition games. But it could be implemented in the regular season as soon as 2026.MLB's automated ball-strike technology could be used in big league games as soon as 2026.Count future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer among the skeptics."We're humans," the Toronto Blue Jays hurler said after a spring training game in which he challenged two calls and lost both to the robo umps. "Can we just be judged by humans?"Editor's Note:Guest authors Arthur Daemmrich and Eric S. Hintz wrote this article for The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Arthur is a Professor and director of the Arizona State University Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes. Eric is a historian and director of the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution.Technological advances that lead to fairer, more accurate calls are often seen as triumphs. But as co-editors of the recently published volume "Inventing for Sports," which includes case studies of over 20 sports inventions, we find that new technology doesn't mean perfect precision nor does it necessarily lead to better competition from the fan perspective.Cue the camerasWhile playing in a cricket match in the 1990s, British computer scientist Paul Hawkins fumed over a bad call. He decided to make sure the same mistake wouldn't happen again.Drawing on his doctoral training in artificial intelligence, he designed an array of high-speed cameras to capture a ball's flight path and velocity, and a software algorithm that used the data to predict the ball's likely future path.He founded Hawk-Eye Innovations Ltd. in 2001, and his first clients were cricket broadcasters who used the technology's trajectory graphics to enhance their telecasts.By 2006, professional tennis leagues began deploying Hawk-Eye to help officials adjudicate line calls. Cricket leagues followed in 2009, incorporating it to help umpires make what are known as "leg before wicket" calls, among others. And professional soccer leagues started using the technology in 2012 to determine whether balls cross the goal line.Reaction to Hawk-Eye has been mixed. In tennis, players, fans and broadcasters have generally embraced the technology. During a challenge, spectators often clap rhythmically in anticipation as the Hawk-Eye official cues up the replayed trajectory."As a player, and now as a TV commentator," tennis legend Pam Shriver said in 2006, "I dreamed of the day when technology would take the accuracy of line calling to the next level. That day has now arrived."But Hawk-Eye isn't perfect. In 2020 and 2022, the firm publicly apologized to fans of professional soccer clubs after its goal-line technology made errant calls after players congregated in the goal box and obstructed key camera sight lines.Perfection isn't possibleCritics have also raised more fundamental concerns.In their 2016 book "Bad Call," researchers Harry Collins, Robert Evans and Christopher Higgins reminded readers that Hawk-Eye is not a replay of the ball's actual position; rather, it produces a prediction of a trajectory, based on the ball's prior velocity, rotation and position.The authors lament that Hawk-Eye and what they term "decision aids" have undermined the authority of referees and umpires, which they consider bad for the games.Statcast is another Hawk-Eye technology. The advanced tracking system was introduced in all 30 MLB stadiums in 2015, using radar and high-speed cameras to analyze player movements, pitch trajectories, and batted ball data.Ultimately, there are no purely objective standards for fairness and accuracy in technological officiating. They are always negotiated. Even the most precise officiating innovations require human consensus to define and validate their role. Technologies like photo-finish cameras, instant replay and ball-tracking systems have improved the precision of officiating, but their deployment is shaped and often limited by human judgment and institutional decisions.For example, today's best race timing systems are accurate to 0.0001 seconds, yet Olympic sports such as swimming, track and field, and alpine skiing report results in increments of only 0.01 seconds. This can lead to situations such as Dominique Gisin and Tina Maze's gold medal tie in the women's downhill ski race at the 2014 Sochi Olympics in which the timing officials admitted that their equipment could have revealed the actual winner. But they were forced to report a dead heat under the rules established by the ski federation.With slow-motion instant replays, determining a catch or a player's intention for a personal foul can actually be distorted by low-speed replay, since humans aren't adept at adjusting to shifting replay speeds.One of the big issues with baseball's automated ball-strike system has to do with the strike zone itself.MLB's rule book defines the strike zone as the depth and width of home plate and the vertical distance between the midpoint of a player's torso to the point just below his knees. The interpretation of the strike zone is notoriously subjective and varies with each umpire.For example, human umpires often call a strike if the ball crosses the plate in the rear corner. However the automated ball-strike system uses an imaginary plane that bisects the middle not the front or the rear of home plate.There are more complications. Since every player has a unique height, each has a unique strike zone. At the outset of spring training, each player's height was measured standing up without cleats and then confirmed through a biomechanical analysis.But what if a player changes their batting stance and decides to crouch? What if they change their cleats and raise their strike zone by an extra quarter-inch?Of course, as has been the case in tennis, soccer and other sports, Hawk-Eye can help rectify genuinely bad calls. By allowing teams to correct the most disputed calls without eliminating the human element of umpiring, MLB hopes to strike a balance between tradition and change.Fans have the final sayFinding a balance between machine precision and the human element of baseball is crucial.Players' and managers' efforts to work the umpires to contract or expand the strike zone have long been a part of the game. And fans eagerly cheer or jeer players and managers who argue with the umpires. When ejections take place, more yelling and taunting ensues.Though often unacknowledged in negotiations between leagues and athletes, fan enthusiasm is a key component of whether to adopt new technology.For example, innovative "full-body" swimsuits contributed to a wave of record-breaking finishes in the sport between 2000 and 2009. But uneven access to the newest gear raised the specter of what some called "technological doping." World Aquatics worried that as records fell simply due to equipment innovations, spectators would stop watching and broadcast and sponsorship revenue would dry up. The swimming federation ended up banning full-body swimsuits.Of course, algorithmic officiating differs from technologies that enhance performance and speed. But it runs a similar risk of turning off fans. So MLB, like other sports leagues, is being thrust into the role of managing technological change.When managers argue balls and strikes, it can make for great TV.Assessing technologies for their immediate and long-term impact is difficult enough for large government agencies. Sports leagues lack those resources, yet are nonetheless being forced to carefully consider how they introduce and regulate various innovations.MLB, to its credit, is proceeding incrementally. While the logical conclusion to the current automated ball-strike experiment would be fully electronic officiating, we think fans and players will resist going that far.The league's challenge system is a test. But the real umpires will ultimately be the fans.

While TikTok has stormed ahead to become the platform most people turn to when they want short form videos, plenty of other social medial companies are trying to get in on the action too. From Instagrams Reels to YouTubes Shorts, platforms are trying to keep up with the popularity of the short, snappy video format that TikTok has popularized. Now, YouTube is pushing ahead with its Shorts competitor, by introducing a suite of new features designed to make creating and editing short videos easier and more fun.Recommended VideosThe new creation tools for YouTube Shorts will arrive this spring, and will include AI-powered features and an improved video editor. The editor will allow more precise adjustments of video timing, which is crucial for short form content, and in a clear nod to TikToks love for viral songs, the video creator will be able to automatically align video clips to the beat of a song, creating a synced edit. RelatedThe editor itself is going to be much more powerful. Its going to allow you to pinch and zoom and find the right moments in the shorts that you can really make your own, said YouTubes Chief Product Officer, Johanna Voolich, in a video discussing the changes. So its just going to be a much more powerful experience.There will also be the addition of AI stickers, which can be quickly generated from a text prompt and then added straight into a Short. Other stickers created from images in your gallery can be added too, making it a quick way to add some personalization to your videos.Finally, the templates feature will get an update, so you can copy the style and effects of popular formats straight into your own Short. And in a nice nod to credit sharing, when you use a template for your Shorts it will automatically attribute that template to its original creator.Editors Recommendations

Artificial General Intelligence is a huge topic right now even though no one has agreed what AGI really is. Some scientists think its still hundreds of years away and would need tech that we cant even begin to imagine yet, while Google DeepMind says it could be here by 2030 and its already planning safety measures. Its not uncommon for the science community to disagree on topics like this, and its good to have all of our bases covered with people planning for both the immediate future and the distant future. Still, five years is a pretty shocking number. Recommended VideosRight now, the frontier AI projects known to the public are all LLMs fancy little word guessers and image generators. ChatGPT, for example, is still terrible at math, and every model Ive ever tried is awful at listening to instructions and editing their responses accurately. Anthropics Claude still hasnt beaten Pokmon and as impressive as the language skills of these models are, theyre still trained on all the worst writers in the world and have picked up plenty of bad habits. Its hard to imagine jumping from what we have now to something that, in DeepMinds words, displays capabilities that match or exceed that of the 99th percentile of skilled adults. In other words, DeepMind thinks that AGI will be as smart or smarter than the top 1% of humans in the world. So, what kind of risks does DeepMind think an Einstein-level AGI could pose? According to the paper, we have four main categories: misuse, misalignment, mistakes, and structural risks. They were so close to four Ms, thats a shame. DeepMind considers misuse to be things like influencing political races with deepfake videos or impersonating people during scams. It mentions in the conclusion that its approach to safety centers around blocking malicious actors access to dangerous capabilities. That sounds great, but DeepMind is a part of Google and there are plenty of people who would consider the U.S. tech giant to be a potential bad actor itself. Sure, Google hopefully wont try to steal money from elderly people by impersonating their grandchildren but that doesnt mean it wont use AGI to bring itself profit while ignoring consumers best interests. It looks like misalignment is the Terminator situation, where we ask the AI for one thing and it just does something completely different. That one is a little bit uncomfortable to think about. DeepMind says the best way to counter this is to make sure we understand how our AI systems work in as much detail as possible, so we can tell when something is going wrong, where its going wrong, and how to fix it. This goes against the whole spontaneous emergence of capabilities and the concept that AGI will be so complex that we wont know how it works. Instead, if we want to stay safe, we need to make sure we do know whats going on. I dont know how hard that will be but it definitely makes sense to try. The last two categories refer to accidental harm either mistakes on the AIs part or things just getting messy when too many people are involved. For this, we need to make sure we have systems in place that approve the actions an AGI wants to take and prevent different people from pulling it in opposite directions. While DeepMinds paper is completely exploratory, it seems there are already plenty of ways we can imagine AGI going wrong. This isnt as bad as it sounds the problems we can imagine are the problems we can best prepare for. Its the problems we dont anticipate that are scarier, so lets hope were not missing anything big. Editors RecommendationsWatch Google DeepMinds robotic ping-pong player take on humans

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