Moravec‘s Paradox

Boston Dynamics' Spot dog is learning some new behaviors that will help the robot adapt to the real world. The company has delivered a Release 3.0 update that helps Spot do its jobs without human intervention. Most notably, it can dynamically replan routes — the robot's inspection will go smoothly…

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief is calling for a moratorium on the use of artificial intelligence technology that poses a serious risk to human rights, including face-scanning systems that track people in public spaces. Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also said Wednesday that…

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Before Sunset and Moon Knight star Ethan Hawke is set to voice the role of Batman in Batwheels, an upcoming animated series aimed at preschool-aged kids, and featuring a cast of human heroes (including Batman, Duke Thomas, and Cassandra Cain) and five anthropomorphized Bat-vehicles, alongside a sentient Bat-computer and a robot automotive…

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…

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?…

Until 200 years ago, no one in the modern era could understand Egyptian hieroglyphs; ancient Egyptian was essentially a lost language. The fact that historians can now read and understand hieroglyphic inscriptions is down to an act of archaeological prowess involving a fairly banal, but ancient legal text chiseled onto…

You might think that GPS navigation is ideal for automated agriculture, since the task facing the operator of a farm vehicle like a combine harvester is simply to drive around the field in a serpentine pattern, mowing down all the wheat or whatever crop it is filled with. But reality…

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…

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…