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Facebook pulls plug on artificial intelligence after robots create their own language!

Facebook pride themselves on being at the forefront of technology and communication. The massive corporation has around 2 billion users and owns a range of other global social media platforms, like Instagram.

Billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly been working on the next step in technology: artificial intelligence (AI). However, it seems like humans may have dabbled a bit too much and a bit too quickly as developers had to shut down testing after the robot AIs they created started to “invent” their own language.
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How vulnerable are Smart City transport systems to being hacked?

American photojournalist Lori Nichols was driving down the highway near Atlantic City close to midnight when she snapped a picture of a free standing temporary road sign. On the lit up road sign, instead of the normal “work ahead” or “slow down”, the sign instead read the word “poop”.

The sign had been like that for several hours. When she reported it to the police station in the morning, she was told other people had also called it in.

While the pranksters only wrote “poop” on the sign, it does raise the question as to how easy it was to gain access to an unlocked panel at the back of the sign. Instead of writing what they did, they could have written something that could have created an entirely different scenario. Something warning of a serious incident, or perhaps a threat that could have sparked a very different response…
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