Moravec‘s Paradox

Alexa is an artificial intelligence (AI) service powered by Amazon's vast cloud computing infrastructure. It was unveiled to the world in late 2014 when Amazon introduced the Echo smart speaker through an invitation-only offering to Prime subscribers, and it …

Behold StoryAI: Type in a few sentences, and the model autocompletes your story, writing a few hundred more words that, by its calculations, could plausibly follow. It was created by the folks at BotSociety Inc, using the GPT-2 774M model created by OpenAI, …

I? Robot? Todays toddlers and preschoolers are growing up surrounded by friendly-looking, sometimes humanlike robotic devices and educational tools a phenomenon that scientists warn could be confusing. While young children tend to understand that the roboti…

Sex robots plagued with coding errors could be prone to violent behaviours including strangling, an expert has warned. Doll collector Brick Dollbanger fears violent repercussions if robotics are not regulated properly. He believes a simple "coding error" co…

Highlights from todays top stories. Subscribe here to receive this rundown daily. Amazons bid to build the Pentagons war cloud has been mired in accusations of favoritism since the beginning. But a newly published ProPublica investigation reveals how close A…

Jeopardy host Alex Trebek and Amazons Echo smart speaker. (Jeopardy.com, Amazon Photos) Alex and Alexa its a match made in geek heaven. Amazons recent sponsorship of the popular television quiz show Jeopardy comes with some prime-time product placement for …

Theres Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, R2-D2 and C-3P0 from Star Wars, and of course the super-scary HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. But space bots arent just science fiction anymore: Russia has sent a robot to space to learn how to help cosm…

In a critical test before using an upgraded booster to launch crews to the International Space Station, the Russians launched an unpiloted Soyuz crew ferry ship from Kazakhstan late Wednesday. It had a humanoid robot known as the Skybot F-850 strapped into th…

Washington: Amazon, Microsoft (MS) and Intel are among leading tech companies putting the world at risk through killer robot development, according to a report that surveyed major players from the sector about their stance on lethal autonomous weapons. Dutch…

OpenAI, a nonprofit focused on creating human-level artificial intelligence, just released an update to its GPT-2 text generator. Im not being hyperbolic when I say that, after trying it, Im legitimately terrified for the future of humanity if we dont figure …