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Steve Wozniak is in recovery after suffering a minor stroke. The Apple co-founder has left hospital after having a stroke while at the World Business Forum in Mexico City on Thursday. The 73-year-old businessman – who helped set up the tech firm with the late Steve Jobs in the 70s – confirmed to ABC News after he collapsed at the conference he was taken for medical treatment at 3pm local time and received confirmation he had endured a small brain trauma. After helping Apple create their first computer, he left the company in 1985, while maintaining a ceremonial position, and moved on to explor...
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Elon Musk says the Unabomber’s notorious manifesto warning about the dangers of technology “might not be wrong”. The Twitter owner, 51, spoke out after murderer Ted Kaczynski died at the weekend by suicide in his supermax prison cell at the age of 81 after nearly three decades behind bars. On Saturday, author Ashley St Clair tweeted a quote from Kaczynski’s manifesto alongside an article about his death – prompting Elon to reply online: “He might not be wrong.” Harvard-educated domestic terrorist Kaczynski abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a primitive lifestyle, and in 1978 launc...
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Steve Wozniak says artificial intelligence could make it easier to be scammed. The Apple co-founder is concerned about the widespread roll-out of AI through services like ChatGPT because of the way it can be manipulated by “the bad players”. The 72-year-old tech entrepreneur told BBC News: "AI is so intelligent it's open to the bad players, the ones that want to trick you about who they are." Steve admitted that “we can’t stop technology” but ought to be mindful about the horrors it can lead to like leaving us more vulnerable to fraud and personal data theft. Tim Cook, the current head of the ...
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Artificially intelligent chatbots are feared to be set to encourage terrorism. The UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation in the UK, Jonathan Hall KC, said the apps could target young and vulnerable users and groom them into extremism if they were programmed to promote terror ideologies. He also warned it would be almost impossible to prosecute anyone for the offence as AI chatbots are not covered by anti-terrorism laws. He said in an article in the Mail on Sunday: “At present, the terrorist threat in Great Britain relates to low sophistication attacks using knives or vehicles. “Bu...
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Elon Musk is warning “out of control” artificial intelligence advances could “pose profound risks to society and humanity”. The Tesla boss, 51, who recently bought Twitter for $44 billion, issued the alert alongside more than 1,000 academics and technology industry figures in an open letter that demands “all AI labs... immediately pause” work, as well as urging governments to suspend more research if they don’t comply. Issued amid warning AI systems such as ChatGPT may put millions of jobs at risk and lead to the spread of disinformation, Elon joined signatories including Apple co-founder Stev...
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An original Apple computer as sold for $400,000 (£294,990) at auction in the United States. The rare Hawaiian koa wood-cased Apple-1 - which was built by the tech giant's co-founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in 1976 - is still functioning and one of only 200 made, while it was sold in kit form. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times before the auction, Apple-1 expert Corey Cohen said: "This is kind of the holy grail for vintage electronics and computer tech collectors. "That really makes it exciting for a lot of people." According to John Moran Auctioneers, the computer has only had two owners ...
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