Moravec‘s Paradox

SpaceX Dragon On Sunday morning, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) in orbit. The spacecraft's re-supply mission carried up 5,700 pounds of gear to the ISS, including equipment for 38 d…

(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — SpaceX made an early holiday delivery to the International Space Station on Sunday, bringing muscle-bound “mighty mice,” pest-killing worms and a smart, empathetic robot. The station commander, Italy’s Luca Parmitano, used a large ro…

This is SpaceXs 19th supply run for NASA. Forty mice are aboard, including eight mighty mice with twice the muscle mass of ordinary mice, according to the experiments chief scientist, Dr. Se-Jin Lee of the Jackson Laboratory in Farmington, Connecticut. Rese…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An intelligent robot equipped with emotion-sensing voice detectors was headed to the International Space Station after launching from Florida on Thursday, becoming the latest artificial intelligence-powered astronaut workmate in orbit. …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. SpaceX launched a 3-ton shipment to the International Space Station on Thursday, including mighty mice for a muscle study, a robot sensitive to astronauts' emotions and a miniature version of a brewery's malt house. The Dragon capsule al…

Another robot with artificial intelligence is headed for the International Space Station (ISS). The astronaut assistant known as CIMON 2 just launched for the orbiting lab aboard SpaceX's robotic Dragon cargo capsule , which lifted off today (Dec. 5) from…

Photo: Courtesy of Sinead Bovell The model-multihyphenate has never been so ubiquitous — nor so multihyphenated, for that matter — as it is today, in this decade's one final exhale. A career like that of Karlie Kloss, with her free coding camp and scholarshi…

Artificially intelligent machines could soon join the ranks of the world's greatest inventors. There is a legal battle brewing over whether robot inventors should be granted the same recognition as human creators. That's being led by an international squad …

Next: About this document John McCarthyComputer Science DepartmentStanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305Internet: jmc@cs.stanford.edu { Review of ``Artificial Intelligence: A General Survey'' by Professor Sir James Lighthill, FRS, in Artificial Intelligence…

The Literary Review in the UK has given out a Bad Sex in Fiction Award since 1993. It's a coveted literary recognition indeed; even Morrissey took the prize home in 2015. While there are some valid critiques about the very existence of the thing TD Storm at L…