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Report: Oakland police consider use of possibly lethal robots Moravec‘s Paradox

Report: Oakland police consider use of possibly lethal robots

According to a report by the Intercept published Monday, an Oakland police spokesperson said that despite objections from a civilian oversight board, the department still has its sights on using said robots. The police department needs permission from a "governing body," per California law, to use military-grade percussion-activated non-electric (or PAN)…
bubmag
October 17, 2022
Video Friday: Venus Aerobot Moravec‘s Paradox

Video Friday: Venus Aerobot

As Verne understood, the U.S. Civil War (during which 60,000 amputations were performed) inaugurated the modern prosthetics era in the United States, thanks to federal funding and a wave of design patents filed by entrepreneurial prosthetists. The two World Wars solidified the for-profit prosthetics industry in both the United States…
bubmag
October 14, 2022
Ericsson partners with three Montreal universities on AI research project Moravec‘s Paradox

Ericsson partners with three Montreal universities on AI research project

The project seeks to develop AI solutions to improve the energy usage of 5G networks Ericsson Canada announced a research program led by three Montreal-based universities, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Concordia University, Polytechnique Montréal, as well as with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). The research program will explore…
bubmag
October 14, 2022
Fact launches new issue featuring VTSS, Rabit, Universal Everything and Richard Mosse Moravec‘s Paradox

Fact launches new issue featuring VTSS, Rabit, Universal Everything and Richard Mosse

Fact’s Fall/Winter ’22 issue explores how artificial intelligence is being used by artists in unconventional, exciting ways. Rabit, VTSS, Richard Mosse and Universal Everything feature on the covers of the fourth print edition of Fact, an ever-evolving platform for artists working at the intersection of the physical and virtual, pushing…
bubmag
October 14, 2022