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Add Google co-founder Sergey Brin to the list of people who don’t think that there are no concerns related to artificial intelligence that should be addressed in due course. While he’s not in the same league as people who fear that the technology might become self-aware some day and end mankind as we know it, he does caution about the various threats that artificial intelligence presents in the current “technology renaissance,” threats such as job destruction.

Brin writes in the company’s annual Founders’ Letter that the work being done now on AI is the “most significant development in computing in my lifetime,” but adds that “such powerful tools also bring with them new questions and responsibilities.”

Google already uses artificial intelligence in many of its products and services to make them better. It’s the technology that enables its self-driving cars to recognize objects, it’s what powers its language translation engine, filters questionable content from appearing in search results, and more.

“From the fears of sci-fi style sentience to the more near-term questions such as validating the performance of self-driving cars,” Brin writes that the company is seriously thinking about these issues and others such as how the technology will affect jobs, what are the challenges in making unbiased and transparent algorithms. Another concern is to prevent such algorithms from being used to manipulate people.

Just how soon the company will have answers to these questions remains to be seen, though.

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If a new report is to be believed, LG is soon going to launch a new wearable device. The company has reportedly developed a hybrid smartwatch called the LG Watch Timepiece which it’s going to announce as early as next week. No images of the device have been leaked online, though, so it’s unclear right now what it looks like.

The report claims that the LG Watch Timepiece will have a 1.2 inch circular LCD panel with analog watch hands on top. This implementation would allow for some new use cases which users will be able to take advantage of.

For instance, the watch face could be used as a compass with the analog watch hands moving over the LCD display to replicate a compass. It may also function the same way for a barometer.

However, one would expect that this implementation would make it difficult to use conventional Wear OS apps since the analog hands would obstruct the view. So even if this is being done to set the LG Watch Timepiece apart from the competition, it remains to be seen if it wins over any fans because of its unorthodox design.

The LG Watch Timepiece will reportedly be IP68 certified for water and dust resistance as well as be compatible with changeable watch bands. It will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 2100 processor with 768MB of RAM and 4GB of storage. No word as yet on how much it’s going to cost.

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