Moravec‘s Paradox

Trailer Tuesday has us taking on the role of an AI, constructing strange machines, escaping chilling mansions, and driving folks around in our limousines. Critters for Sale “Experience death from the comfort of your seat.” Critters for Sale is currently in…

Improving artificial intelligence to help prevent heart attacks doesnt just depend on innovation. It also hinges on creating standards, the wonky underpinnings of the technology agreed to by companies and government agencies. For example, the Consumer Techno…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Joseph "Joe" Kava, head of data centers at Google, third from right, and Scott Beaumont, head of Greater China at Google, first right, attend the opening ceremony of the Google data cen…

BEIJING (Reuters) - It’s the most sensitive day of the year for China’s internet, the anniversary of the bloody June 4 crackdown on pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square, and with under two weeks to go, China’s robot censors are working overtime. Censo…

Machine Learning

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin First, let me be clear I dont mean participating in immersive theme parks, fighting, and/or copulating with AIs is the next step in entertainment (or ever will be.) Instead, as coauthor of the new book, …

The Game of Thrones ended this week and with it potentially tons of HBO Now subscriptions as well. That was clearly the morning-after chatter on Twitter. Why continue paying now that the show is history? To pay or not to pay and why do I have to subscribe t…

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Robots are pretty good at carrying out specific actions, provided we give them specific instructions first. But could robots and humans work together more seamlessly if the machines were able to take their cues from human movement, say like a furniture remova…