Moravec‘s Paradox

Google has announced that it’s adding a red “suspected spam caller” warning to Google Voice calls if it doesn’t think they’re legitimate. In a post on Thursday, the company says it’s identifying spam “using the same advanced artificial intelligence” system as it does with its traditional phone app for Android. If…

Big thanks to Joyce Sidopoulos, Peter Barrett and Ken Goldberg for filling in the last few weeks. I’m excited by the boost this newsletter has been getting in recent months and wanted to keep the light on while I was out. Three weeks is the longest break I’ve taken for…

The rebellious robot has been a key element in many a science-fiction story. A machine built by humans to serve humans suddenly gets its circuits out of joint and pretty soon the androids are getting antsy. Real life is not even remotely like "WestWorld" -- at least not yet --…

After his uncle died in 2018 from late-stage lung cancer, Pelu Tran determined that artificial intelligence could have made a difference, potentially aiding doctors in finding the cancer earlier on imaging scans and avoiding the delay of critical treatment.   Tran, an entrepreneur who studied both medicine and engineering at Stanford…

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Companies, commentators and even sci-fi movies can't stop talking about artificial intelligence (AI). Indeed, AI in the real world is far from the artificial intelligence villains you might recall from your favorite sci-fi flick. This article will break down what artificial intelligence is, how it works and how it's used…

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Home News Spaceflight NASA's InSight Mars lander died from dust overload. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA's Mars InSight lander died a slow death by dust last week. For months and months, the robot, built to study the tectonic activity on the Red Planet, has been running on less and less power…

Chinese tech giant Baidu announced on December 26 a major expansion of its commercialized fully driverless robotaxi service in Wuhan, Hubei Province. The move triples the size of its operation areas, increases the number of robotaxis in service and expands the system’s operation times to include key evening hours. Baidu‘s…

Hot off the heels of the US Department of Energy's (DoE) sort-of nuclear fusion breakthrough, the agency is offering up $33 million for researchers that can wrangle artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other data resources to the cause. The aim is to get machine intelligence to speed the analysis and…