Moravec‘s Paradox

Like a million or so other artificial intelligence dumb-dumbs who discovered ChatGPT this week, I couldn’t wait to show off the capabilities of the application to my colleagues, friends and family. In two blinks of an eye, it composed a sonnet for my editor and a haiku for our respective…

ChatGPT software highlights advances, limitations of modern artificial intelligenceChatGPT is artificial intelligence chatbot software capable of writing poems, college-level essays and even computer code. Experts say the software highlights how far AI has come in just a few years, while still spotlighting concerns around accuracy. There's a new artificial intelligence…

Elon Musks’ Twitter takeover has been characterized by a particularly high number of layoffs.  The Tesla billionaire cut nearly 50% of workers last month, and followed that up with a middle-of-the-night email asking the remaining employees whether they wanted to leave the company, or commit to an “extremely hardcore” work…

For CIOs riding today’s rising wave of robotic process automation (RPA), leading-edge adopters whose mature implementations have paid off can provide invaluable lessons about how to make the best of the technology and where its use can lead. Telecom titan AT&T is one such enterprise, having began RPA trials in…

Artificial intelligence. Virtual reality. The singularity. Desensitization.  All of these are tech-related terms you may have thought were confined to futuristic novels and films like "Tron" or "Ready Player One." But we’ve reached a point where these terms are immensely and increasingly relevant to our lives, not far off figments…

A few weeks ago, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick told his MBA students to play around with GPT, an artificial intelligence model, and see if the technology could write an essay based on one of the topics discussed in his course. The assignment was, admittedly, mostly a gimmick meant to illustrate…

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A simple robot has sensors that can detect when they are damaged, stop the robot, self-heal and instruct the robot to start moving again Technology 7 December 2022 By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan This robot can self-heal after being stabbed Hedan Bai/Shepherd Lab A flexible quadruped robot can sense when it is…

San Francisco lawmakers voted to ban police robots from using deadly force on Tuesday, reversing course one week after officials had approved the practice and sparked national outrage. The city’s board of supervisors voted to explicitly prohibit the San Francisco police department (SFPD) from using the 17 robots in its…

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