Archive for the ‘robotics/AI’ category: Page 1785
Dec 27, 2018
Behind the Market Swoon: The Herdlike Behavior of Computerized Trading
Posted by Derick Lee in category: robotics/AI
Behind the broad, swift market slide of 2018 is an underlying new reality: Roughly 85% of all trading is on autopilot—controlled by machines, models, or passive investing formulas, creating an unprecedented trading herd that moves in unison and is blazingly fast.
The majority of trades come from machines, models, or passive investing formulas that move in unison and blazingly fast. This quarter’s sharp declines are symptoms of the modern market’s sensitivities, the same ones that drove gains through the first three-quarters of the year.
Dec 27, 2018
One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
Posted by Ian Hale in categories: information science, robotics/AI
The stunning success of AlphaZero, a deep-learning algorithm, heralds a new age of insight — one that, for humans, may not last long.
Dec 26, 2018
Facial Recognition Tech Aims to Identify Good and Evil
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: education, information science, law, privacy, robotics/AI, terrorism
Facial recognition is going mainstream. The technology is increasingly used by law-enforcement agencies and in schools, casinos and retail stores, spurring privacy concerns. In this episode of Moving Upstream, WSJ’s Jason Bellini tests out the technology at an elementary school in Seattle and visits a company that claims its algorithm can identify potential terrorists by their facial features alone.
Dec 20, 2018
Draft Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in categories: ethics, robotics/AI
This working document constitutes a draft of the AI Ethics Guidelines produced by the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG), of which a final version is due in March 2019.
Dec 19, 2018
Artificial Intelligence Has Some Explaining to Do
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Dec 19, 2018
A Bug-Like Robot Uses Electricity to Walk Upside Down
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biological, robotics/AI
A bug’s life doesn’t seem half bad, if you can overlook the super-short lifespan or the threat of getting eaten by lizards or swatted at by humans. Flying is nice, as is being able to walk on ceilings. The versatility is enviable, which is why roboticists are on a quest to imbue machines with the power of the bug.
But to harness the powers of nature, roboticists are resorting to very un-biological means. The latest insect-inspired robot tackles the problem of walking upside down using not glue, or a material that mimics the pad of a gecko’s foot as past bot builders have done, but electricity. Specifically, electroadhesion.
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Dec 19, 2018
Self-driving car drove me from California to New York, claims ex-Uber engineer
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
A car has completed the first autonomous coast-to-coast trip in the US. (via The Guardian)
Trip by Anthony Levandowski, controversial engineer involved in Uber-Waymo lawsuit, would be longest without human taking over.