Moravec‘s Paradox

Creators of a text-generating robot have released the tool to the public despite initial trepidation that it could be manipulated by bad actors. OpenAI - an Elon Musk-backed company that researches artificial intelligence- detailed its system, called GPT-2, …

What the original 'Blade Runner' got right — and wrong — about 2019

The humanoid robot named Sophia returned to the Web Summit stage, where she fielded questions from participants and journalists, including inquiries about blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.  On Nov. 6, Sophia addressed the room at the latest edition…

Samsung is improving customer service in the Netherlands with the help of artificial intelligence and what the company calls Collective Memory. The latter is an AI-driven customer support solution that leverages machine learning to deliver fast and better cus…

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…