Moravec‘s Paradox

Oscar-winner Hilary Swank was reading an article during a recent flight that she couldn’t put down. It got her thinking about a brave new world dominated by robotics and artificial intelligence — specifically, over the question of whether robots have rights, …

Facebook used a purloined database of 3D objects for its AI projects, according to a Lithuanian company that spent years and millions of dollars compiling the dataset. UAB Planner5D has sued the antisocial media giant and Princeton University in the US, clai…

Since being taken under the wings of Netflix, Charlie Brookers British darling Black Mirror has truly soared since its initial run on Channel 4. Following an interactive episode released in December, the shows highly-anticipated fifth season returned on Wedne…

Billed as "one of the most exciting artists of our time", Ai-Da differs from generations of past masters in one inescapable way: she is a robot. Ai-Da is the brainchild of Aidan Meller, who claims she is the world's first ultra-realistic humanoid artist, abl…

Robots! Causing us puny fleshbags nothing but trouble since Czech playwright Karel apek first dreamt them up in 1920! Surely by now we know not to trust advanced artificial intelligence, right? They'll kill us all! Or maybe the cold pursuit of predetermined …

Billed as one of the most exciting artists of our time, Ai-Da differs from generations of past masters in one inescapable way: she is a robot. Ai-Da is the brainchild of Aidan Meller, who claims she is the worlds first ultra-realistic humanoid artist, able t…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Over the last few centuries, technology has continued to play an increasingly important role in the advancement of health care. In the industrial age of the 1800s, anesthesia and new surgical equipment g…

Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Endgame" star Robert Downey Jr. announced a new environmental-wellness focused organization at Amazon's AI conference. Getty Images for Disney Actor Robert Downey Jr. announced a new project called The Footprint Coalition to clea…

Data mining. Deep learning. Decision trees. These terms arent common at a tech startup unless the business specifically operates in artificial intelligence (AI). Many big-name companies, like Facebook and Twitter, write conventional rule-based softwa…

Prakash Mathema/Getty Images If youve been following the conversation about technological unemployment and the threat of robots and A.I. stealing jobs, you may have come across the prediction that 47% of current jobs in the U.S. are at risk of automation. Th…