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#BigIdea of the day

Is AGI (Artifical General Intelligence) really an existential threat to humanity?

Leading AI figures subscribe to the “singularity,” a scenario in which superintelligent machines take over and permanently alter human existence through enslavement or eradication.

Elon Musk has warned that AGI is humanity’s biggest existential threat, calling efforts to bring it about “summoning the demon.”

From The Future of AI: How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the World at NextBigWhat

Morning Motivation

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#BigNews Headlines

#DigitalIndia

• Government disables contact tracing feature of Aarogya Setu, deletes data

• SEBI considers relaxing RPT norms for high-value debt listed entities

• Government blocks access to over 29,000 URLs from 2018-2022

#GlobalTech

• Google’s AI reveal contains mistake in ad copy, worsening investor sentiment

• Twitter experiences global outage shortly after introducing long tweets for blue ticked users

• AI is feeding on itself: Bing’s AI quotes COVID misinformation sourced from ChatGPT

• Google Lens to gain AI tool for Android phones

#IndianStartups

• Edtech startups plan to give pay raises to employees after a difficult 2022

• Unitus Ventures reaches first close of Opportunity Fund at Rs 80 crore

• Government reports 86,713 recognized startups by December 2022

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