Moravec‘s Paradox

Finally, the depressed robot Douglas Adams promised me has arrived. Well, sort of. Amazon announced "Alexa emotions" on Wednesday, which let developers make Alexa sound "happy/excited" or "disappointed/empathetic." (Each is available in three levels of inten…

the future storyblocks A not-to-be-overlooked percentage of today's workers subscribe to the dystopian view that artificial intelligence (AI) will threaten their job security. Indeed research by McKinsey has revealed that, by 2030, approximately 14% of the …

Grimes recently gave an interview where she discussed artificial intelligences role in the future of art and music. I feel like were in the end of art, human art, she said. This sparked a debate with musicians including Zola Jesus. Zola Jesus called Grimes th…

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1.Silver, D. et al. Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge. Nature550, 354359 (2017). 2.Cox, D. D. & Dean, T. Neural networks and neuroscience-inspired computer vision. Curr. Biol. 24, R921R929 (2014). 3.Milakov, M. Deep …

(Bloomberg) -- Meet Yona. She loves reading Margaret Atwood and articles about teenage life and sings about loneliness and relationships on her newly released track.If this sounds a bit scripted, thats because it is: Yonas not human.Yona has been created by L…

Back in April at our robotics event at UC Berkeley, Boston Dynamics head Marc Raibert showed off video of the companys Spot robot in a number of different real world scenarios. Some, like construction and first responders, were familiar to anyone who has been…

Cops are already using Boston Dynamics' creepy Spot robot, and theyre not being very transparent about what the four-legged mechanical hellhound is getting up to while it's in their care. According to a report by Boston news station WBUR, documents obtained…

By Dr. Marc Teerlink, Global Vice President, SAP | Intelligent Enterprise SolutionsIn the DC, Maryland and Virginia area, a single mother with two children has an average six dollars left for their daily dinner. Ironically, buying processed food will cost her…

AI Needs to Breathe on Blockchain How Artificial Intelligence Started Like most innovations and technological breakthroughs, we need to first define the parameters of artificial intelligence (AI) before we reach its point of inception. A broad definition th…