Moravec‘s Paradox

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…

The AI Apocalypse might kill humanity before any actual robot uprising Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images You can think of artificial intelligence (AI) in the same way you think about cloud computing, if you think about either of them t…

Machine Learning (ML) is a type of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in which the main principle is that computers can learn and make decisions without relying on human programming. The technology is comprised of data consumption, algorithmic study, analytical mod…

We all know lots of jobs will go away in the next decade or two. When I visited Tesla’s factory this year I noticed about 20% more robots than when I visited last year. Take that trend out a decade or two and we can predict many jobs will go…

For the past fourteen months, our lives and attention spans have been full of knitted robots, intelligent spaceships, living computer programs and living creatures built out of sugar. Although our focus in our new anthology, Mother of Invention, was on the cr…

Check out this roller skating robot that can also ice skate!

SHANGHAI/TOKYO -- The founder of China's most valuable artificial intelligence startup was only half-joking when he asked an MIT audience last year what company they instantly thought of when he said "AI." "Yes, it's SenseTime," quipped Tang Xiao'ou, even th…

In Roanoke County, Virginia, a trip to the public library might include reading, online research, 3D printingand, since last summer, the opportunity to chat with Pepper, a 4-foot-tall humanoid robot who sings, dances and teaches coding classes. The Roanoke C…

A new system uses artificial intelligence and robotics to carry out almost all the steps of chemical synthesis, from planning to execution, with just a little bit of human help (Science 2019, DOI: 10.1126/science.aax1566). Timothy F. Jamison, Klavs F. Jensen,…