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On May 1, 2023, the New York Post ran a story saying that British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking had warned that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) could mean "the end of the human race."

Hawking, who died in 2018, had indeed said so in an interviewwith the BBC in 2014.

"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race," Hawking said during the interview. "Once humans develop artificial intelligence, it would take off on its own and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate."

Another story, from CNBC in 2017, relayed a similar warning about AI from the physicist. It came from Hawking's speech at the Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal, according to CNBC. Hawking reportedly said:

Unless we learn how to prepare for, and avoid, the potential risks, AI could be the worst event in the history of our civilization. It brings dangers, like powerful autonomous weapons, or new ways for the few to oppress the many. It could bring great disruption to our economy.

Such warnings became more common in 2023. In March, tech leaders, scientists, and entrepreneurs warned about the dangers posed by AI creations, like ChatGPT, to humanity.

"AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs," they wrote in an open letter published by the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit. The letter garnered over 27,500 signatures as of this writing in early May 2023. Among the signatories were CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp.

In addition, Snopes and other fact-checking organizations noted a dramatic uptick in misinformation conveyed on social media via AI-generated contentin 2022 and 2023.

Then, on May 2, long-time researcher at Google, Geoffrey Hinton, quit the technology behemoth to sound the alarm about AI products. Hinton, known as "Godfather of AI," told MIT Technology Review that chatbots like GPT-4 that OpenAI, an AI lab "are on track to be a lot smarter than he thought they'd be."

Given that Hawking was indeed documented as warning about the potential for AI to "spell the end of the human race," we rate this quote as correctly attributed to him.

"Geoffrey Hinton Tells Us Why He's Now Scared of the Tech He Helped Build." MIT Technology Review, https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/02/1072528/geoffrey-hinton-google-why-scared-ai/. Accessed 3 May 2023.

"'Godfather of AI' Leaves Google, Warns of Tech's Dangers." AP NEWS, 2 May 2023, https://apnews.com/article/ai-godfather-google-geoffery-hinton-fa98c6a6fddab1d7c27560f6fcbad0ad.

"Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter." Future of Life Institute, https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/. Accessed 3 May 2023.

Stephen Hawking Says AI Could Be "worst Event" in Civilization. 6 Nov. 2017, https://web.archive.org/web/20171106191334/https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/06/stephen-hawking-ai-could-be-worst-event-in-civilization.html.

Stephen Hawking Warned AI Could Mean the "End of the Human Race." 3 May 2023, https://web.archive.org/web/20230503162420/https://nypost.com/2023/05/01/stephen-hawking-warned-ai-could-mean-the-end-of-the-human-race/.

"Stephen Hawking Warns Artificial Intelligence Could End Mankind." BBC News, 2 Dec. 2014. http://www.bbc.com, https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540.

Damakant Jayshi is a fact-checker for Snopes, based in Atlanta.

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Since the release of ChatGPT, companies have scrambled to understand how generative artificial intelligence will affect jobs. This past week, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the company will pause hiring for roles that could be replaced by AIaffecting as much as 30% of back-office jobs over five years. And Chegg , which provides homework help and online tutoring, saw its stock lose half of its value after warning of slower growth as students turned to ChatGPT.

A recent study by a team of professors from Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University analyzed how generative AI relates to 52 human abilities. The researchers then calculated AI exposure for occupations. (Exposure doesnt necessarily mean job loss.) Among high-exposure jobs, a few are obvioustelemarketers, HR specialists, loan officers, and law clerks. More surprising: Eight of the top 10 are humanities professors.

In a survey from customer-service software firm Tidio, 64% of respondents thought chatbots, robots, or AI can replace teachers, though many believe that empathy and listening skills may be tough to replicate. A survey from the Walton Family Foundation found that within two months of ChatGPTs introduction, 51% of teachers tapped it for lesson planning and creative ideas. Some 40% said they used it at least once a week, compared with 22% of students.

AI isnt just knocking on the door; its already inside. Language-learning app Duolingo has been using AI since 2020. Even Chegg unveiled an AI learning service called CheggMate using OpenAIs GPT-4. Still, Morgan Stanley analyst Josh Baer wrote that its highly unlikely that CheggMate can insulate the company from AI.

Write to Evie Liu at evie.liu@barrons.com

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Devon Energy , KKR , McKesson , PayPal Holdings , and Tyson Foods release earnings.

Airbnb , Air Products & Chemicals , Apollo Global Management , Duke Energy , Electronic Arts , Occidental Petroleum , and TransDigm Group report quarterly results.

The National Federation of Independent Business releases its Small Business Optimism Index for April. Consensus estimate is for a 90 reading, roughly even with the March figure. The index has had 15 consecutive readings below the 49-year average of 98 as inflation and a tight labor market remain top of mind for small-business owners.

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Brookfield Asset Management , Roblox , Toyota Motor , and Trade Desk release earnings.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the consumer price index for April. Economists forecast a 5% year-over-year increase, matching the March data. The core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, is expected to rise 5.4%, two-tenths of a percentage point less than previously. Both indexes are well below their peaks from last year but also much higher than the Federal Reserves 2% target.

Honda Motor , JD.com , PerkinElmer , and Tapestry hold conference calls to discuss quarterly results.

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The Bank of England announces its monetary-policy decision. The central bank is widely expected to raise its bank rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to 4.5%. The United Kingdoms CPI rose 10.1% in March from the year prior, making it the only Western European country with a double-digit rate of inflation.

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The Department of Labor reports initial jobless claims for the week ending on May 6. Claims averaged 239,250 in April, returning to historical averages after a prolonged period of being below trend, signaling a loosening of a very tight labor market.

The BLS releases the producer price index for April. The consensus call is for the PPI to increase 2.4% and the core PPI to rise 3.3%. This compares with gains of 2.7% and 3.4%, respectively, in March. The PPI and core PPI are at their lowest levels in about two years.

The University of Michigan releases its Consumer Sentiment Index for May. Economists forecast a dour 62.6 reading, about one point lower than in April. Consumers year-ahead inflation expectations surprisingly jumped by a percentage point in April to 4.6%.

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October raises awareness for Breast Cancer and LiveNOW from FOX talks with a doctor about the advances in treatments and importance of early detection.

BOCA RATON, Fla. - Some doctors believe artificial intelligence is saving lives after a major advancement in breast cancer screenings. In some cases, AI is detecting early signs of the disease years before the tumor would be visible on a traditional scan.

The Christine E. Lynn Women's Health and Wellness Institute at the Boca Raton Regional Hospital found a 23% increase in cancer cases since implementing AI during breast cancer screenings.

Dr. Kathy Schilling, the medical director at the institute, told Fox News Digital the practice has nine dedicated breast radiologists who are all fellowship trained, so the increase in early detections was surprising.

"All we do is read breast imaging studies, and so I thought, you know, we were probably pretty good at what we were doing, but this study really comes in shows us that even the dedicated and committed breast radiologists can do better utilizing artificial intelligence," Schilling said.

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"ProFound AI," created by iCad, is designed to flag problem areas on mammograms. The program studied millions of breast cancer scans and, over time, learned to circle lesions and estimate the cancer risk.

"If you realize that 90% of the cases are benign and have no findings, you know, you just become fatigued. You get mesmerized by scrolling through the images. The AI helps us to refocus and find those little tiny cancers that we're looking for," Schilling said.

Medical personnel use a mammogram to examine a woman's breast for breast cancer. Photo: Hannibal Hanschke/dpa (Photo by Michael Hanschke/picture alliance via Getty Images)

ProFound AI became the first technology of its kind to be FDA cleared in December 2018. The Christine E. Lynn Women's Health and Wellness Institute adopted the groundbreaking technology during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the hospital now boasts one of the earliest studies on AI's impact on cancer.

"What I think we're going to be finding is that we're finding cancers when they're three to six millimeters in size, and finding the invasive lobular cancers which are very difficult for us to find, because they don't form masses in the breast," Schilling said.

Schilling also stated that over the past two years, the institute has offered less severe therapies to patients diagnosed with breast cancer because the cells are so small.

"We are doing smaller lumpectomies, fewer mastectomies, less chemotherapy, less radiation therapy," she continued. "I think we're entering into a whole new era in breast care."

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Schilling also believes AI's early detection capabilities may have helped save Luz Torres' life after a routine mammogram on April 1 revealed a small cancerous tumor. Torres said she had no symptoms or inclination that something could be wrong.

"I have very dense breast tissue, so I always have a mammography and an ultrasound. The recommendation of that visit was the breast biopsy, so I had that done within a week's time, and then I got a phone call that the pathology was breast cancer," Torres said in an emotional interview. "It was an early detection. I come every year, I'm on track with my mammography, so it's very small tumor."

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Torres was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer in early April and recently completed surgery. Fortunately, she is expected to make a full recovery after early detection.

"It looks good. Because it was called early stage 1, I won't need chemotherapy so very happy about that," said Torres, who described the institute as "amazing."

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Dr. Ko Un Park, a surgical oncologist at OSUs Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the signs of inflammatory breast cancer, treatment, and other things to know about the rare, yet deadly form of the disease.

"The desire to improve the technology for the patients to find this breast cancer in patients early when it's treatable, and the prognosis ends up being great. I'm fortunate enough to be one of those patients. It's a blessing," she concluded.

Several companies have released AI products with the ability to flag abnormalities during cancer screenings. Doctors are also using AI to detect brain cancer, lung cancer and prostate cancer.

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Toshiyuki Shimada works with orchestra students at Norwich Free Academy last October as part of his candidacy process for director of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra.

As the lights went down to start the final ECSO concert of the season, a family of four sidled in -- the way you do in a row of theater seats. Mom, Dad, brother, sister. Few children attend the nighttime concerts, but these kids were being treated to seats up front.

With the start of Mendelssohns Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, I could see why they chose that row. The little girl, homemade baton in hand, was conducting the orchestra in her seat.

I wish the actual Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra conductor, Toshiyuki Shimada, could have seen what was happening behind his back. The child was precisely copying his moves. When his arm stretched, so did hers a bare quarter-beat behind. When he pointed to the horns, she did, too, even pacing the rapid but almost invisible agitation of the baton. Me, Im grinning in the dusk.

The child conductor literally did not miss a beat. Her musical intelligence is one of her superpowers.

Behavioral science recognizes multiple categories of human intelligence. Best known is the list of intelligences identified by Howard Gardner: linguistic, logical/mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist. Gardner added that humans are not born with all the intelligence they will ever have. Some they acquire.

On the same weekend as the concert, The New York Times Magazine published its powerful interview with three Connecticut State Police investigators who went above and beyond their duties in documenting the carnage inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012.

The article describes the trauma Sandy Hook inflicted even on veteran officers who have dealt with numerous homicide scenes. It recounts their determination to do for each of the 26 victims what they were used to doing for one at a time. No corners would be cut, even though no trial was likely; the shooter was dead and appeared to have acted alone.

The story lays out the steps the investigative team took to shield anyone who did not have to look at a scene that can never be unseen. It details their decision after the bodies of 20 child victims and their teachers had been removed that they would show then-Attorney General Eric Holder a dozen of the 1,495 photos they took and then escort him to the classrooms through hallways still littered with glass shards.

Times writer Jay Kirk wrote, that something like destiny, however grim and profoundly unwanted, had been laid at their feet. That the country, the world, would come looking for answers was not a question. And if anyone was going to provide the answers, at least to what had happened in these rooms, it would be up to them, but only if they kept their heads.

They did their work with a rare but critical combination of the logical/mathematical, spatial, interpersonal and intrapersonal human intelligences developed over their years as investigators. When told they could skip some steps because evidence was not needed for prosecution, their interpersonal intelligence told them no, the victims and their families deserve all we can do. Their intrapersonal intelligence warned each of them of the toll it was taking, but character and a sense of duty kept them going.

Their mission was to protect people from crippling horror but at the same time not to shield the public from the obscene truth of what one heavily armed intruder had done. Putting their multi-faceted intelligence at the service of a greater good, the investigative team provided lawmakers, law enforcement and justice officials with evidence that led to rapid changes in Connecticut law and -- not until much more bloodshed -- to a federal law that upended the stalemate on gun control measures.

Recent news about intelligence-related topics has largely focused on the expansion of Artificial Intelligence and its capacity for increasing its own scope. Journalist Scott Pelley observed on CBSs Sixty Minutes that he was speechless, rare for him, about the tasks AI was conceiving for itself and then carrying out. Is AI sentient? he asked. Does it have self awareness?

Programmers obviously can endow AI with linguistic, logical/mathematical, spatial and musical intelligence. Pelleys report includes two bots teaching themselves to play soccer, so some form of bodily-kinesthetic and inter-personal intelligence is involved. It would be ironic, but perfectly possible, for AI to have naturalist intelligence.

Intrapersonal intelligence, however, depends on self-awareness. If AI ever becomes self-aware, will it be inclined to put others good before its own? Always? Sometimes? Never? Would it undertake a task like identifying, cleansing and returning victims jewlery to their families with empathy or just expediency?

Will AI have joy, like the thrill of conducting scores of musicians right in front of you who dont even know youre there? Will it be able to pretend?

We have a lot to learn about intelligence.

Lisa McGinley is a member of The Day Editorial Board.

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The recent hype over AI is much like the same fever that had fuelled crypto, when once you could slap 'blockchain' on the name of any company and see its stock soar fourfold.

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Amid all the hoo-ha over artificial intelligence this year, Microsoft Corp. MSFT-Q, which has a stake in the laboratory behind the ChatGPT bot, has seen its shares go up more than 25 per cent.

Various AI stocks, with names youve never heard of, are hotter than hot, even with a recession looming and at the foot of a tech beatdown in the markets. BigBear.ai Holdings Inc., an information-technology services company, is up about 250 per cent on the year; at one point in February, it was up 700 per cent.

Wanna make money? Boy, do I have a great idea for you. Just add AI to the name of your company. Theres a voice-recognition company that used to be called SoundHound Inc., but went public in 2022 as SoundHound AI Inc. SOUN-Q. The stock has admittedly pared back some gains since then, but it is still up nearly 100 per cent for the year.

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Any of this sound familiar? Its the same fever that had fuelled crypto, when once you could slap blockchain on the name of any company and see its stock soar fourfold. Im pretty sure that soon, as with crypto, the term AI bro will enter the lexicon to describe a young man who is passionate and enthusiastic about the industry.

Oh, wait it has. An Urban Dictionary entry for AI bro was made in January of this year.

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Lets face it, AI is the new crypto. All the hype, investment mania and scams of past years investment cycles are going to come back.

To that, you might slam your table, squint your eye around your monocle and say: Wait thats not right! At least AI does something. Crypto is just make-believe money!

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A commonly expressed view. And a wrong one. But lets for the sake of argument say that it is correct. Has that distinction resulted in any difference in the markets?

It wasnt just 2020, the year of the really expensive digital pictures, or NFTs, that crypto was booming. Remember 2017, when a market frenzy was sparked by the Canadian-founded Ethereum, which let anyone easily create their own coin?

At one point that year, the furniture chain Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. ETD-N was up 50 per cent, largely attributed to how its ticker at the time, ETH, was the same as the abbreviation for Ethereums ether coin.

While Ethan Allen eventually changed its ticker to distance itself, others fiercely coveted that nominal crypto association.

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I wasnt being hyperbolic when I wrote earlier that companies can slap blockchain onto their names and see their stock quadruple in value. That was exactly what happened when Long Island Iced Tea Corp. changed its named to Long Blockchain Corp.

Meanwhile, Eastman Kodak Co. KODK-N, the camera maker, saw its stock triple in value after a bad year by announcing it would go into crypto mining.

Then there were the outright scams. The infamous OneCoin raised US$4-billion, but there is no evidence it had even developed a digital currency based on blockchain technology. Such scams are so plentiful that the U.S. Justice Department is still announcing new 2017-era cases to this day.

Such scams abounded because they were easy. Regardless of what many think of it, there are defined metrics for what makes a cryptocurrency namely in terms of the code that goes into it. But people cant see or hold a cryptocurrency. So, its easy to claim youve made one. The end user doesnt always have the sophistication to tell the difference until its too late.

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Again sounds familiar? Have you ever wondered how many purported AI projects are actually AI?

A London-based startup, Engineer.ai, once claimed to use artificial intelligence to help people build apps. It attracted US$30-million from investors, including a unit of Japans SoftBank Group Corp. SFTBY. The Wall Street Journal later reported that Engineer.ais AI claims were greatly exaggerated actual humans in India were building the apps.

Such practices are so rampant, there is even a neologism coined for it: AI washing.

What it all boils down to is this: When crypto entered the mainstream, it was hard to define or even understand. In that messy environment, companies thrived and empires were built and so also rose the scams and OneCoins of the world. AI is having the same moment now.

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