Moravec‘s Paradox

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 …

Good price Each Supercar is a self-aware robot, driven by powerful artificial intelligence (A. I. ) and equipped with deadly strategy. Whatever track you build, they'll learn it. Wherever you drive, they'll hunt you down. The better you play, the better they …

Every week, there are news reports on how AI will impact jobs, but what about the impact of AI on indie authors? Can we surf the change instead of being drowned by it? Could it make our lives better as creative entrepreneurs? I recently did a mega-solo podc…

A 400-year-old temple in Japan is attempting to hot-wire interest in Buddhism with a robotic priest. The android Kannon, based on the Buddhist deity of mercy, preaches sermons at Kodaiji temple in Kyoto, and its human colleagues predict that with artificial i…

Artificial intelligence is permeating our culture CGI influencers like Lil Miquela front world-spanning fashion campaigns, Sophia the Robot travels the world, acts in movies, and gains a legion of adoring fans doing it, while Charlie Brookers Miley Cyrus-star…