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While the world is still on the fence about a 4-fay work week, Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates has proposed that we should be looking at a three day work, and that it is very easily achievable, thanks to AI While most…

The impact and potential of artificial intelligence have always been a part of the conversations where many experts believe it could overpower humans. Others have speculated that AI capabilities and intelligence will take away half of the jobs. However, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, in a podcast, said that AI will not take jobs, but will "change it forever." Know more about the podcast and what comments Gates made about AI and a 3-day work week.Will AI create a 3-day work week?Bill Gates recently appeared on Trevor…

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is a major advocate for fighting climate change and has a dedicated investment wing called Breakthrough Energy, who invest in technologies and startups that fight climate change. Gates believes how we raise livestock and use GM crops can save the planet…

It looks nothing like a typical "fan on a stick" wind turbine, but this oval track with evenly spaced wing blades could be an enormously disruptive addition to the renewable energy mix, since it slashes the cost of wind power to unprecedented lows.Wyoming's Airloom Energy has come out of stealth mode with a new CEO fresh out of Google, US$4 million in seed funding, led by Bill Gates's Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, and a radically different technical approach that it says fundamentally upends the financial equation…

Yesterday, July 11, was dominated by the incident where Suumit Shah, the founder of the ecommerce startup Dukaan tweeted about replacing 90 percent of the company's customer support staff with artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, and netizens began condemning the founder for his lack of empathy. Today, things take a different turn as Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates posted a blog where he talked about the risks AI poses and how to manage it. In a separate incident, IT major Wipro launched its new service called ai360.…

Bill Gates just joined the chorus of big names in tech who have weighed in on the question of risks around artificial intelligence. TL;DR? He’s not too worried, we’ve been here before.The billionaire business magnate and philanthropist made his case in a post on his personal blog GatesNotes, in which he called AI the most transformative technology any of us will see in our lifetimes—ahead of the internet, smartphones, and personal computers.His optimism is refreshing after weeks of doomsaying. Gates urges fast but…

It’s interesting to ask what contribution Gates makes by weighing in now, says Leslie: “With everybody talking about it, we're kind of saturated.” Like Gates, Leslie doesn’t dismiss doomer scenarios outright. “Bad actors can take advantage of these technologies and cause catastrophic harms,” he says. “You don't need to buy into superintelligence, apocalyptic robots or AGI speculation to understand that.” “But I agree that our immediate concerns should be in addressing the existing risks that derive from the rapid…

In a shocking revelation, Gates Ventures, which is the private family office of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, allegedly asked female applicants sexually explicit questions during a job interview process, the Wall Street Journal has reported. A security consulting firm called Concentric Advisors was tasked with conducting interviews for the company and it asked intrusive and inappropriate questions while conducting background checks of the potential candidates. The report further states that only female candidates who…

Women job candidates were allegedly asked sexually explicit and personal questions while interviewing for a position at Bill Gates’s private investment office, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The women went through an extensive screening process and were reportedly asked intrusive questions including if they ever “danced for dollars” or had an affair, what kind of porn they watched, among other questions, the WSJ said.What Is Carbon Capture? With Gizmodo’s Molly Taft | TechmodoThe questions were reportedly…

This horror-thriller occupies the same Victorian shadowlands as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Penny Dreadful; a not-quite-modern epoch, with its zesty mashup of science, religion and spiritualism, retrofuturist tech and plain retro beliefs. It makes an invigorating backdrop for Irish director Stephen Hall’s second feature. But his script isn’t quite sharp enough and – apart from John Rhys-Davies, who goes at his role with his customary fiery traction, and villain Richard Brake, as ever exploiting a face like…