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Starship Technologies, the autonomous robot delivery services provider, has secured a fresh round of funding to power the next phase of its development. Led by Plural and Iconical, the funding round raised $90 million for the San Francisco-based company, taking its total funding to the figure of $230m since its inception in 2014. Starship was founded by Ahti Heinla in Tallinn, Estonia, alongside Danish entrepreneur Janus Friis – the latter was the founder of Skype where the pair worked together. Initially, their formidable robot machines were built for explorations on Mars but a change of tack resulted in the launch of Starship Technol...... Read Full article on HadNews

As the steady hum of artificial intelligence activity carries on from 2023 into the new year, the research group AI Impacts has released the results of their most recent outlook survey among AI researchers and engineers. Their accompanying preprint (not peer reviewed as of press time) details the results. The group’s analysis of their 2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI summarizes responses of 2,788 AI researchers to a series of questions regarding the present and far future of AI research.“When will particular things happen in the future? Is there a risk of bad things happening? In practice, we’re interested in human extinction.”—Katja Gra...... Read Full article on HadNews