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Who’s watching? How governments used the pandemic to normalize surveillance Moravec‘s Paradox

Who’s watching? How governments used the pandemic to normalize surveillance

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…
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December 9, 2021
DeepMind cracks ‘knot’ conjecture that bedeviled mathematicians for decades Moravec‘s Paradox

DeepMind cracks ‘knot’ conjecture that bedeviled mathematicians for decades

Home News A knot and a graph representing the problems that the artificial intelligence program DeepMind tackled. (Image credit: DeepMind) The artificial intelligence (AI) program DeepMind has gotten closer to proving a math conjecture that's bedeviled mathematicians for decades and revealed another new conjecture that may unravel how mathematicians understand…
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December 6, 2021
This Lifelike Robot Is Terrifying Everyone With Its Realism Moravec‘s Paradox

This Lifelike Robot Is Terrifying Everyone With Its Realism

Engineered Arts, a U.K.-based robotics company, has debuted a humanoid robot named Ameca, and it’s making folks pretty uncomfortable. In a video posted on Engineered Arts’ Vimeo channel, you can see Ameca “wake up” and observe themselves with realistic human expression. Despite everything from Ameca’s neck down being robotic, their…
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December 4, 2021