Moravec‘s Paradox

As the people charged with designing, building, and deploying artificial intelligence -- from data engineers to developers -- recognize, AI is a powerful mechanism for amplifying human knowledge, skills, and efficiency. But how can AI proponents employ AI to fix a moribund or toxic corporate culture? That's probably the most…

These are lucrative times for technology suppliers, but with the tsunami of technology cascading into the market, end-user customers are increasingly overwhelmed with it all. Artificial intelligence to the rescue? Hold that thought.   Photo: Joe McKendrick That's the word from a recent Uptime Institute survey that shows that technology vendors…

(Source: SenseTime) United States officials plan to ban American investment in Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) unicorn SenseTime Group Limited, the Financial Times reported on Friday. In response, SenseTime issued a statement on Saturday saying that it strongly opposes this decision and related allegations. The company also claimed that the decision…

The second planet from the Sun, Venus, went through a climate change process that transformed it from an Earth-like environment to a barren world. According to researchers, studying Venus can help model the evolution of climate on Earth and serve as a reference for what can happen in the future.…

Serve Robotics An autonomous sidewalk delivery company is announcing the closing of a seed funding round with some big backers. Serve Robotics joins a rapidly expanding list of autonomous delivery developers wooing investors with the notion of robots conducting last mile deliveries in urban and suburban areas. The autonomous delivery ecosystem has…

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China is poised to gain on the US in the fields of AI, 5G, quantum information science, semiconductors, biotechnology and green energy In some areas, China is already leading the US, according to a report from the Harvard Kennedy School Read More

BUSAN, South Korea —  Son Eun-ji’s newborn son will begin the first months of his life in a sci-fi-like home in the middle of a sparse river delta that was until recently sprawling fields of scallions. The young family will move early next year into an experimental project showcasing South Korea’s…

Operational robot stock in food and beverage manufacturing has almost doubled since 2014, according to the latest data from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). Now, over 90,000 robots are in use in the global food and beverage manufacturing industry, picking and packing confectionery or placing different toppings on fresh…

We're in a new era of spaceflight: The national space agencies are no longer the only game in town, and space is becoming more accessible. Rockets built by commercial players like Blue Origin are now bringing private citizens into orbit. That said, Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic are all…