Moravec‘s Paradox

Take a moment and think about a movie or TV show in which artificial intelligence poses a grave threat to humanity. Didn’t take long for a title to spring to mind, did it? Terminator, I Robot, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Star Trek, WarGames … the list goes on.…

Image: GettyIf the current season of Westworld has taught us anything, it’s that artificial intelligence is not all it’s cracked up to be, both in inception and in execution. Personally, I was done with AI after I watched exactly half of 2004's I, Robot, and then decided that the entire business…

Coronavirus patients with light symptoms arriving to stay at several Tokyo hotels are likely to get a lift from a pleasant surprise - a robot greeter in the lobby.Japan is now using hotels to house patients who have tested positive for the coronavirus but whose symptoms are too light to…

1. Introduction 1.1 Background of the Field The ethics of AI and robotics is often focused on “concerns” of various sorts, which is a typical response to new technologies. Many such concerns turn out to be rather quaint (trains are too fast for souls); some are predictably wrong when they…

Will machines ever be able to replace or replicate human creativity? That is a question that we repeatedly ask ourselves as we continue to innovate and invent new creative tools. The printing press, the gramophone, the camera, the camcorder, the typewriter, the synthesizer, word processors, photo editing software, and many…

Published: Apr 29, 2020, 5:00 am SGT Healthcare facilities and technology companies here are tapping artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the fight against the Covid-19 outbreak. They include hospitals such as National University Hospital (NUH) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), while several local tech firms have AI offerings now being…

SINGAPORE - Healthcare facilities and technology companies here are tapping artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the fight against the Covid-19 outbreak. They include hospitals such as the National University Hospital (NUH) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), while several local tech firms' AI offerings are now being used in coronavirus mitigation.…

Thandie Newton and Evan Rachel Wood have a sword-and-knife fight. If you take away nothing else from this episode of Westworld (“Passed Pawn”), let it be the sight of these two badass women kicking the living shit out of each other. It’s the episode’s highlight — even if it’s never…

My favorite comedic maker, Simone Giertz, brings another silly robot into the world as she builds a robotic parent that will pat her on the back and say: "Good job, son" -- after she feeds it a quarter. As always, there are some genuinely funny moments here, like when she…

Image copyright Getty Images As a pandemic grips the world, a person could be forgiven if they had forgotten about another threat to humanity's way of life - the rise of robots.For better or worse the robots are going to replace many humans in their jobs, analysts say, and the…