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Home News Tech Star Wars droids like Zero from The Mandalorian have a long way to go to emulate real-life robots, one expert says. (Image credit: Lucasfilm) Robotics is a smoking-hot industry that's evolving by literal leaps and bounds, and the top researchers in the field are also some of…

Photo: Oli Scarff (Getty Images) Earlier this month, a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, claimed his employer had inadvertently created a sentient AI chatbot system, called Language Model for Dialogue Applications—or LaMDA, for short. Lemoine had been tasked with seeing if the LaMDA’s programming showed any tendencies toward hate speech or…

The largest hackathon in Africa set the stage in Lagos, Nigeria from June 10 to 12 at the Africa FinTech Foundry, Victoria Islands. Developers in Nigeria were called upon on a quest to “Accelerating Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Through Edge Computing” –– the theme of this year’s Hackathon. “This…

I confess, I was worried about revolutionary robot Soulslike Steelrising. I'd seen it in a hands-off capacity and thought it looked like it could be in line for the Soulslike throne, but with Action-RPGs it's all about hand feel: does it feel rough or smooth under the thumbsticks? As luck…

A moist, disembodied finger floating in a petri dish is the latest biohybrid advance, a technology that fuses biological and non-biological materials together. University of Tokyo scientists debuted the artificial finger, claiming it could be the first use of a living skin equivalent grafted onto a working robot. Beyond its…

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Transparency often plays a key role in ethical business dilemmas -- the more information we have, the easier it is to determine what are acceptable and unacceptable outcomes. If financials are misaligned, who made an accounting error? If data is breached, who was responsible for securing it and were they…

We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! The words “artificial intelligence” (AI) have been used to describe the workings of computers for decades, but the precise…

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Let’s start this post with some raw truth: Google has not created robots that are sentient (or, put another way, have feelings). But don’t cast your worries aside just yet. The allegation that Google has made a sentient robot came up after Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer, claimed he had…