Moravec‘s Paradox

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…

You can get comprehensive lists of everything coming to streaming services anywhere. But half of those titles you dont care about, and the other half are terrible. Wheres the good stuff? io9 is here to help. Below youll find what we deem to be the best sci-f…

A project of the U.S. Army has developed a new framework for deep neural networks that allows artificial intelligence systems to better learn new tasks while forgetting less of what they have learned regarding previous tasks. The North Carolina State Univers…

ATLANTA Tephnee Usher stands in a McDonough, Georgia, warehouse, separated from the stored goods by a black chain-link fence, and waits for robots to deliver the goods to her. Human workers are confined to opposite edges of this 17-acre roofed space: deliv…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly changing just about every aspect of how we live our lives, and our working lives certainly arent exempt from this.Artificial Intelligence In The Workplace: How AI Is Transforming Your Employee Experience Adobe Stock S…