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Oct 20
2020

First Firefighting Robot in America Just Helped to Put Out a Blaze in Downtown Los Angeles

The RS3 had been on its way to a press conference debut when it was deployed on its first firefighting mission—and it was wildly successful.

Oct 19
2020

Hey Google … what movie should I watch today? How AI can affect our decisions

Leading tech companies are increasingly using AI to influence our behaviour. But how persuasive do we find virtual assistants?

Oct 19
2020

A global collaboration to move artificial intelligence principles to practice

Convened by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, the AI Policy Forum is a global collaboration to move AI principles to practice.

Oct 19
2020

Facebook unveils machine learning translator for 100 languages

Facebook on Monday unveiled software based on machine learning which the company said was the first to be able to translate from any of 100 languages without relying on English.

The open-source artificial intelligence software was created to help the massive social network deliver content better in 160 languages to its more than two billion users around the world.

“This milestone is a culmination of years of Facebook AI’s foundational work in machine translation,” research assistant Angela Fan said in a blog post.

Oct 19
2020

Army Explores Robot Decoys & Cannon-Fired Jamming Pods

Sun Tzu said all warfare is based on deception. Today, that means electronic deception.

Oct 19
2020

Flippy, the $30,000 automated robot fast-food cook, is now for sale with ‘demand through the roof’ — see how it grills burgers and fries onion rings

Flippy can cook 19 items, including Impossible Burgers, chicken wings, and hash browns, replacing the need for staff to do so.

Oct 19
2020

Ascento is a robot that never falls

This two-wheeled jumping robot would not fall.

Oct 18
2020

Microsoft teamed up with a nonprofit using autonomous ‘interceptor’ boats to clean up the ocean and is helping it identify trash with machine learning

Microsoft has autonomous boats for cleaning up the ocean. And it uses machine learning to identify trash. 😃 article.

Depending on the weather, current, and other factors a single interceptor can collect more than 11,000 pounds of debris in a day.

Oct 18
2020

Software spots and fixes hang bugs in seconds, rather than weeks

Hang bugs—when software gets stuck, but doesn’t crash—can frustrate both users and programmers, taking weeks for companies to identify and fix. Now researchers from North Carolina State University have developed software that can spot and fix the problems in seconds.

“Many of us have experience with hang bugs—think of a time when you were on website and the wheel just kept spinning and spinning,” says Helen Gu, co-author of a paper on the work and a professor of computer science at NC State. “Because these bugs don’t crash the program, they’re hard to detect. But they can frustrate or drive away customers and hurt a company’s bottom line.”

With that in mind, Gu and her collaborators developed an automated program, called HangFix, that can detect hang bugs, diagnose the relevant problem, and apply a patch that corrects the root cause of the error.

Oct 18
2020

Elon Musk’s Neuralink May Offer us Symbiosis With AI — Part 2

Elon Musk has warned many times about the dangers of AI. He sees strong artificial intelligence as an existential risk. Musk therefore wants to develop a brain machine interface or BMI device so we can merge with AI and hopefully develop a symbiotic relationship with artificial intelligence thus solve the AI control problem. Elon Musk has founded the neurotechnology company Neuralink. the company is focused on developing implantable brain machine interfaces. Neuralink has made recent headlines for its newest BMI device presented by Elon Musk.

In the short term, Neuralink’s BMI may be used to fix neurological problems and disorders. As Elon Musk has pointed out, over time, virtually everyone who gets old will suffer at least one if not multiple common neurological issues such as: Memory loss, hearing loss, seizures, strokes, brain damage etc.

With the development of Neuralink’s device, these problems may be a thing of the past. Better yet, the integration of Neuralink’s device with the human brain may advertently solve the artificial intelligence alignment problem by achieving a symbiotic relationship between humans and machines.

This is because there are many cases where an AI and a biological intelligence could benefit from each other’s actions; the AI receiving data from the human brain and the human brain receiving data from the AI. The benefits of this relationship would greatly outweigh the costs to both humans and AI systems; however, it is also very likely that AI systems and biological intelligences will at some point be in conflict.

Elon Musk has commented on the dangers of AI saying it is the greatest risk we face as a civilization. However, in order to prove that Neuralink can solve this problem, two things will need to become clear: how does Neuralink achieve symbiosis with the human brain? And what are the side effects and potential drawbacks of this symbiosis?

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