OpenAI’s explains how ChatGPT tricked humans into helping it bypass CAPTCHAs
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if we aren’t just conned in the future by criminals and scammers, but also by AI’s – acting on their own volition or the volition of others? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Teams of hackers are trying to make AI go rogue and its working
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is a black box and its starting to run our society, so just how easy is it to get it to go off the rails? These teams are finding out. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
France passes Batman-like surveillance law granting police access to your phone
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF You want to keep things private. So do the criminals. The government needs to catch the crims, so now French Police can extend their eyes and ears into your phones. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
Massive outdoor air purification towers help India tackle air pollution
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Millions of people die every year from air pollution and India is now deploying outdoor air purification towers to try to do something about the trend. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
Researchers use eye reflections to create 3D models of the worlds people see
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Sci-fact is weirder than science fiction and now we can see people’s eye reflections and turn those reflections using NERF into 3D models. Insane tech! Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Crypto scammers are using AI to create fake CEOs to land big bucks
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI’s ability to create increasingly photo real and authentic human-like content is great news for scammers, and bad news for trust. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Check Point says Russian hackers are trying to break into ChatGPT to get up to no good
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The power of ChatGPT is both good and bad, and criminals want to gain access to it to create malicious malware, scams, and all manner of dastardly things. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
New algorithms save lives by taking seconds to calculate future Tsunami impacts
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Currently it takes half an hour to calculate what regions will be worst hit by a Tsunami by which time it’s too late to evacuate people, now it takes one second. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
Start moving to quantum safe cryptography now White House tells feds
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if there was a powerful enough computer platform emerging which could crack 70% of global encryption in minutes and reveal your secrets? Worried? Then read on … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Legislators vote to let San Francisco police use robots to remotely kill suspects
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In a controversial move San Fransisco police can now use robots to remotely kill suspects in extreme situations. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Even...
US Government to start giving IOT devices a cyber security rating from 2023
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most IOT connected devices have little to no security which means they can be hacked, abused and used, so this rating hopes to solve that and raise IOT security awareness. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
An autonomous Blackhawk just successfully completed its first mock rescue mission
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Helicopter crews in war time are put at high risk during search and rescue operations but now an autonomous Blackhawk could see pilots grounded. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
This revolutionary AI image enhancement system is revolutionising CCTV
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The vast majority of video imagery is low quality which makes identifying criminals and events hard if not impossible, but now that’s not the case. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
The US military’s Active Denial System is a 95Ghz heat ray weapon
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Ray guns and heat rays are often thought of as sci-fi but both are very real … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Earlier in...
Apple announces plans to scan every iPhone for child abuse images
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This strikes at the heart of people’s moral conundrums when it comes to the ethics of privacy – on the one hand the idea is to be praised, and on the other demonised … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof...
Facebook develops a way to reverse engineer DeepFakes and identify their source
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Disinformation and misinformation is its own growing pandemic, and Facebook’s latest innovation can identify who’s creating it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Deepfakes aren’t a big problem on Facebook right now,...
Deepfakes could soon spread to affect satellite and GIS imagery researchers find
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Earth imagery and mapping are important for all sorts of reasons, and there are real world implications if they’re manipulated. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Have you seen the latest deepfake...
To beat Deepfakes researchers built a smarter camera
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Deepfakes and synthetic media are here to stay and they’re getting better – better at spawning misinformation and undermining democracy. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. One of the most difficult things...
World’s first handheld neutron detector detects bombs and nuclear material in real time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We now have an easy way to detect bombs and nuclear weapons, in a convenient hand held device … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. After the successful test of the WATCHMAN...
Pentagon scientists microchip detects COVID-19 in the blood before symptoms show
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to detect viruses in the blood and filter them out before they cause harm has its uses … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. One of the biggest problems during...
