Moravec‘s Paradox

Sometime next year, an autonomous robot might deliver food from an airport restaurant to your gate. The idea for Ottobot, a delivery robot, came out of a desire to help restaurants meet the increased demand for takeout orders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ottobot can find its way around indoor spaces…

There’s been much talk about the national health insurance (NHI) bill, which was submitted to parliament in 2019. The NHI is intended to create a pool of private and public healthcare funding and ensure that all South Africans have access to quality, affordable personal healthcare based on their needs, despite…

A cryptographic tool inserts a detectable signature in the words produced by OpenAI’s text-generating artificial intelligence models. It could help teachers stop students using AIs to do their homework Technology 13 December 2022 By Matthew Sparkes It can be tough to determine whether words originated from a text-generating AI or…

Istanbul, Turkey – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, December 13, 2022 New white paper provides decision-makers with a better understanding of how to unlock the potential of industrial artificial intelligence (AI)Written in collaboration with the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Türkiye, paper sheds light on how scalable AI applications can be…

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…

Veritasium/YouTube By S.G. Howe/Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 10:07 am EST The average human is unable to jump more than two or three feet (via The Exercisers). In the animal kingdom, we are vastly outnumbered by creatures with superb jumping abilities — and the robotics kingdom has us beyond beat, too. This…

Author of the article: Associated Press Marcia Dunn Publishing date: Dec 11, 2022  •  1 day ago  •  3 minute read Join the conversation Image from simulation video of the HAKUTO-R commercial lunar lander. Photo by ispace /supplied CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Watch a replay of our live coverage of the launch here. SFN Live A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral early Sunday with a commercial Japanese robotic moon lander and a NASA hitchhiker micro-payload called Lunar Flashlight that will seek out signs of water ice hidden…

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…