Moravec‘s Paradox

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Tom McTague in The Atlanticon a teflon PMThe Unsinkable Boris Johnson“Pundits continually predict that the laws of political gravity will kick in for Johnson, that this is the time…

Welcome to Stapled Cinema, our new ongoing series celebrating the valiant adaptations of one sequential art form into another. Comic book movies are seemingly everywhere. We’re uncovering the beauty in the best (and worst) attempts that tear the staples from comics in a dash to splash their panels upon the…

30-second summary: Some people fear that artificial intelligence will take their job, but this won’t happen if AI is used as an enabler instead of a replacer Jeff Kofman,CEO of Trint, an AI speech-to-text platform, discusses how to use AI effectively across various industries Tools like Trint have exploded within…

A robot cleans a room at the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills using ultraviolet light. Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills Robots are changing the way the travel industry approaches cleaning as it grapples with how to restore confidence amid the Coronavirus pandemic. These futuristic machines have been in use in hospitals for…

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Paris (AFP) - When human contact needs to be kept to a minimum, robots can save lives and factories. But when the coronavirus crisis is over, will they amplify job losses?It may be a mechanised arm pulling beers in a Seville bar, a dog-like dispenser of hand sanitiser in a…

The U.S. has started to catch up to China on the adoption of Artificial Intelligence technology, says AI expert Kai-Fu Lee. When Lee—the chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures—wrote his book AI Superpowers in 2018, he argued that China was faster in implementing and monetizing AI technology. But the U.S.…

Will brands need to reach the consumer via robot gatekeepers in the future? Getty Will you be selling and marketing to robots in the future? Most people would laugh at the idea, but with global spending on robots expected to reach $241.4 billion by 2023, per IDC, and major tech…

This story is available exclusively on Business Insider Prime. Join BI Prime and start reading now. Sex robots with artificial intelligence are selling well during the COVID-19 remain-in-place orders, their makers say, even at $12,000 apiece.The robots can talk and move their heads, but their customizable silicone bodies cannot move…

Microsoft’s AI Mixes Up Mixed-Race Singers, Earns Backlash The AI program that helps to curate Microsoft’s news aggregator, MSN.com, confused one mixed-race singer for another in a recent post, resulting in a backlash from one of the singers. Microsoft’s AI used a picture of singer Leigh-Anne Pinnock for an article…