Moravec‘s Paradox

Welcome to the first article in TNWs guide to the AI apocalypse. In this series well examine some of the most popular doomsday scenarios prognosticated by modern AI experts.  You cant have a discussion about killer robots without invoking the Terminator movi…

Shackleton Crater, the floor of which is permanently shadowed from the sun, appears to be home to ... deposits of water ice. A new study sheds light on how old these and other deposits on the Moon's south pole might be. NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University…

Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the progress of AI highlighted workers positive attitudes toward AI and robots, challenges in implementing enterprise AI, the perceived benefits of AI in financial services, and the impa…

Healthcare is an industry that is currently being transformed using the latest technology, so it can meet the challenges it is facing in the 21st century. Technology can help healthcare organizations meet growing demand and efficiently operate to deliver bett…

Magic Blocks Researchers at MITs Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have created autonomous robot cubes that can jump, spin, and assemble Minecraft-like structures on their own. One day, they say, the little M-Blocks might save y…

Almost exactly six years ago, we reported on the first iteration of the self-assembling cube robots called M-Blocks. Since then, they’ve become exponentially more radical. Here in October of 2019, the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laborator…

A dystopian but fake video showing a sharpshooting robot turning on its human tormenters fooled some people online in late October 2019 likely because sophisticated artificial intelligence and increasingly agile robots are quickly becoming a reality. The vid…

Manager Technical Industrial Engineer working and control robotics with monitoring system software ... and icon industry network connection on tablet. AI, Artificial Intelligence, Automation robot arm Getty What can we do to mitigate the damage that aut…

A robot: less frightening than it looks. (Photo by Mikhail JaparidzeTASS via Getty Images) Mikhail Japaridze/TASS A robot tax? Now I have heard it all. The idea came out of Bill de Blasio just before he gave up his bid to gain the Democratic presidential n…

When your entire franchise uses time travel as a cornerstone, things are bound to get confusing. James Cameron didn’t make the first Terminator movie knowing it would spawn a line of sequels and spin-offs, so he obviously didn’t think too hard about the time …