Moravec‘s Paradox

Artificial intelligence (AI) is here, whether we like it or not. On the surface it might seem like our lives will be made easier with AI.  But hold onto that thought.  In Japan, researchers are in the process of coming up with a system, using AI and thermal imaging, that helps…

Instead of spending just a few days with Roomba’s Combo j7+ before putting together a story about the robot vacuum/mop combo as I often am forced to do with other products to hit embargoes, I took a different approach. I’ve been using the j7+ Combo for a little under a…

When Spike Jonze’s Her came out in 2013, I thought of it mostly as an allegory. It was set in a candy-colored dystopian future, one in which people murmur into wireless earbuds on the subway and rely on artificial intelligence engines to keep them organized and control their house’s lights,…

A Cruise robotaxi blocked a San Francisco ambulance from getting a pedestrian hit by a vehicle to the hospital in an Aug. 14 incident, according to first responder accounts. The patient later died of their injuries. Above is a photo of a different Cruise incident where a Firetruck hit a…

A little more than half (53%) of B2B marketing managers say their budgets are up this year compared to 2022, according to a new study.  Despite this, the marketers don’t believe that they’re getting the funding they need. While they asked for an average of $88,000 per campaign, the approved…

A surge in adoption of artificial intelligence tools is driving demand for computing capacity globally, with growing requirements from tech giants operating generative AI platforms already creating opportunities for data centre operators and investors at the same time that it challenges the infrastructure providers to develop and deploy at Internet…

SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents a number of voice actors and performers plying their trade in the game industry, has called for strike action. Over the weekend, SAG-AFTRA's National Board voted unanimously to send a strike authorization vote to union members, who will have from September 5 to September 25…

Opinion September 4, 2023 — 5.30pm September 4, 2023 — 5.30pm I began my career in artificial intelligence more than two decades ago. Back then, explaining what I did at dinner parties would earn me a polite smile and a couple of jokes about R2-D2 before the conversation moved on.…

An Argentine publicist is using an artificial intelligence app to visualize how babies stolen by Argentina’s dictatorship (1976-1983) may look like today, four decades later. Santiago Barros combines the photos of the disappeared fathers and mothers pulled from a public database to create faces of what their children might look…

Robot vacuum manufacturer Roborock announced three new vacuum products at IFA 2023, the global tech show taking place in Berlin this week: the Q5 Pro robot vac; the Q8 Max robot vac; and the Dyad Pro Combo wet / dry stick vacuum. The new lidar-powered robot vacuums add more than…