The History of the Future of Intelligent Machines
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The Week in Robots
Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs Retraining may be the best way to ease impending tech-driven job losses This Robot Can Pick Up Objects and Recognize What They Are Respecting Robots Should We Respect Our Robots? “Good Robots” Good News: A.I....
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Robot Philosophers “Crypto is decentralizing, AI is centralizing. Or, if you want to frame it more ideologically, crypto is libertarian and AI is communist.” – Peter Thiel The “Father of Artificial Intelligence” Says Singularity Is 30 Years Away A Renowned Futurist Says We Should Merge With AI to Protect Humanity...
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Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs His 2020 Campaign Message: The Robots Are Coming MAD magazine exclusive: “The Future of Job Automation” Automation is going to hit workers in three waves, and the first one is already here Half of Americans Want Universal Income, but Expect AI Companies to Pay...
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Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs Automation Will Replace a Staggering Number of Workers in Major Cities AI Is Automating the Workplace. This Is How We’re Adapting. Most Americans Think AI Will Improve Lives and Eliminate Jobs – Just Not Theirs Half of Americans like universal basic income – and...
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Robot Police Artificial intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance The AI That Prepared Astronauts for Space Could Now Help Fight Crime Good luck getting out of a ticket with Ford’s A.I.-enabled police car Robocop creator Ed Neumeier plans new sequel to original, ignoring the others and the reboot Robots Are...
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Robots Reading AI just outperformed humans at reading, potentially putting millions of customer service jobs at risk of automation. Could it do the same in learning? AI Beats Humans at Reading Comprehension, but It Still Doesn’t Truly Comprehend Language No, machines can’t read better than humans Racist Robots How Automation...
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CES was held this week in Las Vegas. Lots of opportunity to market a robot future… The Year of the Robot (Again) CES 2018: What the Gadget Fest Looks Like in ‘the Year of A.I.’ 5 AI trends to watch in 2018 The AI World Will Listen to These Women...
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Ethical Robots DeepMind’s Cofounder Thinks AI Should Get Ethical in 2018 “Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs” Minimum Wage Increases Could Speed Up Robot Adoption in the U.K. Sex Robots Hacked Sex Robots Could Murder People, Security Expert Warns Maybe Sex Robots Will Make Men, Not Women, Obsolete Service Industry...
New Year's Updates
I’ve made some changes to this site, most obviously updating the header image. Thanks to Bryan Mathers. (Why a pigeon?) Those who look closely will also note that I have also changed the copyright information. No longer is there a Creative Commons license on Hack Education material. This really doesn’t...
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Robot Teachers Robot tutors set to help students take on China’s daunting Gaokao college entrance exams Robot Drivers Autonomous Cars Are Driving on Our Streets. Welcome to 2018. Flying Robots The Air Force Studied Falcons to Develop a Bio-Mimicking Drone Defense Robot Brains If We Want Brain-Computer Interfaces, We Must...