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Moravec‘s Paradox

Time’s Bridge: A super-intelligent robotic dragon is a friend you can count on, hopefully… Moravec‘s Paradox

Time’s Bridge: A super-intelligent robotic dragon is a friend you can count on, hopefully…

Time's Bridge is a near future science fiction novel that explores what it means to be alive, and what humanity will do to keep it's place at the top of the food chain. In a world of discord and disunity, Time’s Bridge, shows why you shouldn’t judge a book, or…
bubmag
September 13, 2021
In Ron’s Gone Wrong, the Social Network Has Been Roboticized Moravec‘s Paradox

In Ron’s Gone Wrong, the Social Network Has Been Roboticized

Best friends don’t cleave each other, Ron.Screenshot: 20th Century Those kids today. Always on their phones! It seems like they’ve stopped talking to each other except through Instagram and TikTok and the Whozit and Whatevers. But what if. instead of phones, their social lives were conducted through adorable robots called B-Bots?…
bubmag
September 11, 2021
Right to contest automated AI decision under review as part of UK government data protection consultation Moravec‘s Paradox

Right to contest automated AI decision under review as part of UK government data protection consultation

The UK government has launched a consultation that suggests it could water down individuals' rights to challenge decisions made about them by artificial intelligence. In documents released today, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) said that the need “to provide human review may, in future, not be…
bubmag
September 10, 2021
Spot the dog? No, we couldn’t either because Spot is a robot employed by United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Moravec‘s Paradox

Spot the dog? No, we couldn’t either because Spot is a robot employed by United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

Tired of doing parkour on the internet, robots from Boston Dynamics have been deployed at UK nuclear facilities to carry out routine tasks in dangerous environments. The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has held a three-day trial of Boston Dynamics' four-legged Spot at the decommissioned Calder Hall nuclear plant…
bubmag
September 10, 2021