Moravec‘s Paradox

Scientists in China have reportedly developed an artificial intelligence program able to file criminal charges.  The artificial intelligence “prosecutor” is given a verbal definition of a case and then decides whether or not to file charges, per BizPacReview.  The prosecutor files charges with a 97 percent accuracy rate and was…

Netflix The trailer has been released for “City of Lost Children” and “Amelie” director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s new Netflix sci-fi comedy film “BigBug”. The story unfolds in a quiet residential neighbourhood in 2050 and follows four people whose domestic robots take them hostage during a robot uprising. Locked together, a not-quite-so-blended…

In 2008, Nextbigfuture wrote how a massive technological transformation was possible even without greater than human-level general artificial intelligence or molecular nanotechnology. I proposed that a mundane technological singularity without super-technology could transform the world. A lot of systems and processes would have to be redesigned. The mundane singularity could…

When Hongzhi Gao was young, he lived with his family in Gansu, a province located in the center of northern China by the Tengger Desert. Thinking back to his childhood, he recalls the constant, steady wind of dirt outside their house, and that during most months of the year it…

At this time, the solar system was still relatively crowded despite its vast size. And over the next 20 million or so years, many planetesimals crossed paths and collided. Some merged and grew into even larger protoplanets, eventually forming what became the familiar planets we know today. In each of…

Ecovacs Amazon has what may very well be the final robot vacuum sale of 2021. The online retailer has solid deals on three Ecovacs robot vacuums. These deals won’t arrive before Christmas, but they should get there before the New Year. The deals end just before midnight on Thursday evening,…

Someone forced a bot to look at every Pokémon ever created – then told it to generate its own. It sounds like the start of another one of those memes where someone makes an absurdist parody script so out-there only a robot could have conceived it, and then claims a…

Uttar Pradesh, India -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/24/2021 -- Global Artificial Intelligence in Livestock Farming Market Growth (Status and Outlook) 2021-2026 , Covid 19 Outbreak Impact research report added by Report Ocean, is an in-depth analysis of market characteristics, size and growth, segmentation, regional and country breakdowns, competitive landscape, market shares,…

At the end of a tumultuous year for both her professional life and her country of ancestry, Dr Timnit Gebru decided to do more than complain about the impact that technology was having on political discourse and established an institute specifically to address the harms that artificial intelligence (AI) causes…

        | Published: Friday, December 24, 2021, 15:11 Reliance Jio has successfully tested linked robotics over its peculiar 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) and 5G Standalone (SA) Core network. "Jio 5G Robotics has deployed a diverse canvas of services from heavy lifting and logistics at manufacturing warehouses…