Moravec‘s Paradox

Hands of robot and human touching on global virtual network connection future interface. Artificial intelligence technology concept. Getty In 1956, John McCarthy setup a ten-week research project at Dartmouth University that was focused on a new concept he …

Getty Between the fake news potential of deepfakes, the fear of robots stealing jobs, and the occasional call for automated systems to have control of the nuclear button, A.I.s public image could do with a PR makeover here in 2019. Could saving a few million…

Without the concepts of time, space and causality, much of common sense is impossible. We all know, for example, that any given animals life begins with its birth and ends with its death; that at every moment during its life it occupies some particular region…

Those who havent hunted for new employment recently may not realize that human resources departments are no longer always, well, human. Many hirers are now using artificial intelligence to read resumes, schedule interviews and even ask preliminary questions.…

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global robotics market continues to shift increasingly toward non-industrial robots. The industry is experiencing some growing pains, as expected when moving from a mature domain of robotics to new application areas. Many …

Weve heard tales of technological transformation for a while, and those stories are (finally) moving into their next chapters. The International Data Corporation suggests that 60% of global GDP will come from digital organizations by 2022. These players are t…

Thieves stole over $240,000 by using voice-mimicking software to trick a companys employee. The thieves used an AI voice deepfake of a company executive to get the employee to wire money to an offsite account in what researchers say is the first publicly repo…

It was the sight of a labourer painting a high-rise, precariously balancing himself without any safety measures, that set Harikrishnan Jayachandran thinking. The final-year Electronics and Communication Engineering student at Amrita Engineering College, Amrit…

With the theme of Intelligent Connectivity, Infinite Possibilities, the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2019 concluded recently in Shanghai. During the opening ceremony, Alibaba Group Chairman Jack Ma and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla had a 45-minute debat…

Forget Skynet gaining sentience and starting a nuclear apocalypse aimed at humanity. The real fear a lot of folks have about artificial intelligence, robots and other automated processes is what it means for all of our jobs. According to a famous Oxford Unive…