Moravec‘s Paradox

The last two episodes of What If…? Season 1 (read our What If...? season finale review) saw Ultron, or at least a variant thereof, return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Of course, the Avengers villain made his big-screen debut in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, a debut that was greeted…

If you've ever had the misfortune of following along with Esquire's Westworld coverage, you will know that the show is the harbinger of my pandemic nightmares. It once made me spend hours looking at robot gumball brains, wondering who the hell they belonged to, and exists mainly as an alleged…

A look back at the decades since that meeting shows how often AI researchers' hopes have been crushed—and how little those setbacks have deterred them. Today, even as AI is revolutionizing industries and threatening to upend the global labor market, many experts are wondering if today's AI is reaching its…

Greenhouse gases are colorless, scentless and invisible, making them exceptionally hard to measure. Fortunately, some tools and techniques can help -- one of the most powerful being artificial intelligence, says green technologist Charlotte Degot. By processing massive amounts of data on carbon emissions, she explains how AI makes it possible…

LEO carves out a new type of locomotion somewhere between walking and flying. Researchers at Caltech have built a bipedal robot that combines walking with flying to create a new type of locomotion, making it exceptionally nimble and capable of complex movements. Part walking robot, part flying drone, the newly…

Underneath Louisville, Kentucky, about halfway through its prize-winning run, a robot called ANYmal C hit a false wall. It backed up, walked forward, and then hit the wall again, continuing for a few minutes. Each time the suspended wall yielded a little, then swung back into place. The wall, installed…

Over 8 million adults are estimated to be visually impaired in Nigeria. People with visual impairment and persons living with life-threatening experiences are marginalized and excluded from family, mainstream school, the community and society for some unknown or superstitious reasons. Exclusion from access and development leaves these people socially, psychologically,…

Examples of deep Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) overlay images. Maximum intensity projection (MIP) images are on left, and MIP images with the SHAP overlay are on right. Positive SHAP values (red) show areas that contribute to a high probability of lesion presence, negative SHAP values (blue) show locations with reduced…

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Enterprise customers of companies like Microsoft and Google have come to expect their office productivity suites -- Office 365 and Google Docs -- to incorporate localization for the various markets where employees work and where they do business with customers. For instance, that means that Office 365 could be customized…