The History of the Future of Intelligent Machines

Robot Gaming Google’s A.I. Program Rattles Chinese Go Master as It Wins Match AlphaGo Shows How Far Artificial Intelligence Has Come Google’s AlphaGo Defeats Chinese Go Master in Win for A.I. A Stronger AlphaGo Defeats the World’s Number One Player AlphaGo’s next move Robot Cars Sorry Waymo, Almost Half of...

Robot Dictatorships Hear Me Out: Let’s Elect an AI as President Self-Driving Cars in the Courts Uber Engineer Barred From Work on Key Self-Driving Technology, Judge Says Judge ruling means Uber can continue self-driving work but Levandowski barred from LiDAR How Uber and Waymo Ended Up Rivals in the Race...

Robot Philosophy Can robots have kids or adopt— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) May 9, 2017 Robots (Not) Taking Your Job False Alarmism: Technological Disruption and the U.S. Labor Market, 1850–2015 Is Automation Warping the Labor Market as Dramatically as We Think? New Jobs for Humans Displaced by Robots Could Take a...

Robot Apocalypses How the Robot Apocalypse Will Go Down Google’s New AI Has Learned to Become “Highly Aggressive” in Stressful Situations Teaching Machines Train your AI with the world’s largest data-set of sarcasm, courtesy of redditors’ self-tagging AI has a legibility problem Tencent’s New Lab Shows It’s Serious about Mastering...

Robot Storytellers Hubert Dreyfus, preeminent philosopher and AI critic, dies at 87 6 Bots That Deliver Science and Serendipity on Twitter Robot Mythology The Myth of a Superhuman AI AI’s PR Problem Robot Cars Apple offers feedback on California’s proposed driverless testing rule changes Alphabet’s self-driving company is adding 500...

I have added a script to my websites today that will block annotations – namely those from Genius and those from Hypothes.is. I have been meaning to do this for a while now, so it’s mostly a project that comes as I procrastinate doing something else rather than one that...

Working for Robots The Hidden Laborers Training AI to Keep Ads Off Hateful YouTube Videos God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism Robot Workers These Takeout Robots Won’t Wipe Out Delivery Jobs Just Yet Robot Assistants Google’s AI Assistant Can Identify Your Voice but Will Still Take Orders...

Robot Cars Fewer Deaths, Cleaner Air, More Time: The Future of Autonomous Vehicles College Dropout Says He’s Cracked Self-Driving Cars’ Most Crucial Component G.M. Expands Self-Driving Car Operations in Silicon Valley Uber Denies It Is Using Stolen Waymo Technology 25% of U.S. driving could be done by self-driving cars by...

Robot Cashiers Amazon’s cashier-free store reportedly breaks if more than 20 people are in it Alt-Right Bots Alt-right bot army “rules trending topics” on Twitter Robot Cooperation How to teach robots teamwork Robot Artists This is what AI sees and hears when it watches ‘The Joy of Painting’ Robot Marketing...

AI / Mind-Melding Fantasies Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI The AI Mind-Merge Vision That Silicon Valley Won’t Give Up Elon Musk’s Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse The AI Misinformation Epidemic “OpenAI” Elon Musk’s OpenAI Unveils a Simpler Way for Machines...