Police used an unusual weapon to kill a man suspected of murdering five officers in Dallas on Thursday: A robot. Source: Here’s What We Know About the Robot Used In the Dallas Shooting – Fortune
“AI AGENTS MAY “LEARN IN THE LONG RUN TO AVOID SUCH INTERRUPTIONS … WHICH IS AN UNDESIRABLE OUTCOME.” At first I was totally okay with a “big red button” to disable a rogue AI that…
The biggest near term threat to the stability of nations might not be climate change, terrorism, or nuclear war. It just might be robots—putting millions of people out of jobs. Where will they all go?…
Motion AI, a Chicago company that lets anyone easily build a bot without touching a line of code, has announced it is open to business after several months of private testing. Source: Motion AI lets…
They say that kids aren’t born sexist or racist—hate is taught. Artificial intelligence is the same way, and humans are fabulous teachers. Source: It’s Too Late—We’ve Already Taught AI to Be Racist and Sexist |…
The application of machine learning to the ever-increasing amounts of data being produced throughout the world will change everything when it comes to our jobs. Yes, these new technologies will make jobs easier for many…
A class of students at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently learned that Jill Watson, the teacher’s assistant they’d been interacting with all semester, was actually a robot. Jill, powered by IBM’s Watson analytics system,…
Smaller, lighter, more nimble robots that can be controlled with a tablet and have a much lower price point than their predecessors is opening up robotics and automation to smaller manufacturing companies (that make up about 70% of…