Review Article
Artificial Intelligence and a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 1, June 2024
Pages:
1-14
Received:
8 December 2023
Accepted:
23 December 2023
Published:
5 February 2024
Abstract: For global reality, the boundaries between artificial intelligence and software are not clearly defined. Experts in the field of AI are trying not only to understand the nature of intelligence, but also to create intelligent entities, which is why big problems are created within the framework of an unambiguous understanding of the technical regulations of artificial intelligence. Nick Bostrom (Professor Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University. He is the founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute - FHI, a multidisciplinary research center which enables a few exceptional mathematicians, philosophers, and scientists to think carefully about global priorities and big questions for humanity. The FHI is platform to teams working on AI safety, biosecurity, macro strategy, AI policy, the ethics of digital minds, and various other technology or foundational questions) talks about the need to pay very close attention serious attention to the risk that the actions of an explosively developing artificial superintelligence can lead to the arbitrariness of machines and, as a result, causing irreversible damage to human civilization or even to an existential catastrophe - the death of humanity. If humanity wants to survive the advent of super intelligent machines in its world, then the risks from such realities must be taken into account.
Abstract: For global reality, the boundaries between artificial intelligence and software are not clearly defined. Experts in the field of AI are trying not only to understand the nature of intelligence, but also to create intelligent entities, which is why big problems are created within the framework of an unambiguous understanding of the technical regulat...
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Research Article
A Comparative Analysis of the Physicochemical Properties of Oils Extracted from Common Species of the Niger Delta Raphia Palm Fruits and Cocos nucifera Kernels
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 1, June 2024
Pages:
15-33
Received:
29 May 2024
Accepted:
17 June 2024
Published:
29 June 2024
Abstract: Cocos nucifera oil is one of the most valuable, expensive and globally consumed vegetable oils. In many nations including Nigeria, the demand for Cocos nucifera and its oils has outweighed the supply. Moreover, Cocos nucifera cultivation has been reported to cause negative environmental, climatic and social impacts. Hence the search for a suitable feedstock that can either be used in conjunction with or as a substitute to Cocos nucifera oils. In this study, oils were extracted from the mesocarp of common species of the Niger Delta Raphia palm fruits (Raphia farinifera, Raphia hookeri and Raphia vinifera) as wells as Cocos nucifera kernel. The prospects of using each of the Raphia palm oil as an alternative to Cocos nucifera oil in food, feeds, biofuels and oleochemicals industries were analysed based on the results of standard physiochemical properties analysis. The results of this study showed that most of the physiochemical properties of the oils extracted from common species of the Niger Delta Raphia palm fruits are comparable to those of Cocos nucifera oil and the standards set for food, feeds, biofuels and oleochemicals. However, the Raphia palm fruits oils are more suitable as alternatives to Cocos nucifera oil in the biofuels and oleochemicals sectors than in the food and feed sectors.
Abstract: Cocos nucifera oil is one of the most valuable, expensive and globally consumed vegetable oils. In many nations including Nigeria, the demand for Cocos nucifera and its oils has outweighed the supply. Moreover, Cocos nucifera cultivation has been reported to cause negative environmental, climatic and social impacts. Hence the search for a suitable ...
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Anselm Iuebego Igbafe
