They taught ATLAS Kung Fu 😮
Really impressive, only things that need to be worked on. Shrink the Torso A Lot, so it’s comparable to a person. And, someone is going to have finance coming up with a set of robotic human like hands.
They taught ATLAS Kung Fu 😮
Really impressive, only things that need to be worked on. Shrink the Torso A Lot, so it’s comparable to a person. And, someone is going to have finance coming up with a set of robotic human like hands.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YJB3RpKZ8fs
The U.S. intelligence community is upping its early-stage investments in machine-learning companies — but Beijing is pouring in far more.
A trio of new investments in Silicon Valley machine-learning startups shows that the U.S. intelligence community is deeply interested in artificial intelligence. But China is investing even more in these kinds of U.S. companies, and that has experts and intelligence officials worried.
Continue reading “China and the CIA Are Competing to Fund Silicon Valley’s AI Startups” »
Like most cerebral movies, Ex Machina leaves the conclusion up to the viewer: was Ava actually conscious? In doing so, it also cleverly avoids a thorny question that has challenged most AI-centric movies to date: what is consciousness, and can machines have it?
Hollywood producers aren’t the only people stumped. As machine intelligence barrels forward at breakneck speed—not only exceeding human performance on games such as DOTA and Go, but doing so without the need for human expertise—the question has once more entered the scientific mainstream.
Are machines on the verge of consciousness?
Continue reading “Here’s How to Get to Conscious Machines, Neuroscientists Say” »
Two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have access to medical imaging. A company called Butterfly Network is trying to change that.
Have you ever lifted half a ton? With the Guardian GT, a set of robotic arms, you could do so with as little as two kilogram (five pounds) of force, allowing you to have superhuman strength.
Elon Musk recently made headlines asserting that, in order for us to both progress and survive as a species, we must merge with machines and become cyborgs. And, as climate change rages onwards and the biological difficulties of completing a human mission to Mars become ever more apparent, many are beginning to agree.
Engineers from Harper Adams University in Shropshire are working on machines that can autonomously plant seeds, weed, water and spray without a farmer needing to venture into the field.
Professor Blackmore said: ‘I am trying develop a completely new agricultural mechanisation system based on small smart machines.
For now, at least, we have better things to worry about.
Sources:
https://economics.mit.edu/files/11563
https://www.aeaweb.org/full_issue.php?doi=10.1257/jep.29.3#page=33
http://voxeu.org/article/how-computer-automation-affects-occupations
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/f…150428.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/fi…conomy.PDF
https://www.vox.com/2015/7/27/9038829/automation-myth
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Fut…oyment.pdf
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New Boston Dynamics robot, pretty awesome. I hope they roll out an upgraded ATLASoftBank is supposedly doing a big robotics event later this month.
For more information… stay tuned.
Letters from a time capsule opened in the Russian city of Novorossiysk have revealed that Soviet students in 1967 believed their peers in 50 years time would be living on other planets and eating ice cream for free, while their homework will be done by machines.
Hundreds of time capsules were laid across the USSR in 1967 as the country celebrated half a century since the Russian Revolution, which eventually led to the creation of the Soviet state. Those messages, containing the accounts of Soviet people’s lives and their messages to descendants, are being opened in Russia this year, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the events of 1917.
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