Tag: Intelligence
What is AI superintelligence? Could it destroy humanity? And is it really almost here?
AI systems more intelligent than humans in some ways already exist – but general-purpose superhuman intelligence is probably still a long way off.
A Russian-born ADF soldier and her husband have been charged with spying. What does this mean?
The couple are the first to be charged under Australia’s new espionage act, which was revamped in 2018.
Why is Amazon building a ‘top secret’ $2 billion cloud for Australia’s military intelligence?
You may only know Amazon as an online retailer – but it’s also become the world’s single biggest player in providing cloud computing services.
We tracked secret Russian missile launchers in Ukraine using public satellite data
Public data can reveal military secrets – posing problems for the world’s armies.
AI tools produce dazzling results – but do they really have ‘intelligence’?
Existing AI systems learn patterns from very large piles of data – but they have no insight.
In our first major intelligence review since COVID, here are 7 key priorities to be ready for the next pandemic
Nearly four years on from the start of the pandemic, there has been no independent review of the role the intelligence agencies played during the crisis.
AI is closer than ever to passing the Turing test for ‘intelligence’. What happens when it does?
The Turing test, first proposed in 1950 by Alan Turing, was framed as a test that could supposedly tell us whether an AI system could ‘think’ like a human.
