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Mar 2, 2018
Walmart Opens Tech Incubator In Austin
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: finance, robotics/AI
Walmart has opened a new tech incubator in Austin to focus on emerging technologies.
Engineers, developers and scientists at the incubator are working on the future of shopping and exploring machine learning, artificial intelligence and natural language processing, according to a blog post by Walmart.
“The work we’re doing is ultimately about enabling our coworkers to be even more impactful in their jobs,” stated Rachel Brynsvold, data scientist at the lab. “I also see lots of opportunities to make financial impact for the company, which contributes to Walmart’s mission to help people save money and live better.”
Mar 2, 2018
Can Earth be hacked by aliens? Scientists say messages from space could destroy life as we know it
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: alien life, military, nanotechnology, robotics/AI
The researchers also suggested that aliens could “gift” us with an artificial intelligence (AI) system that may trick humans into developing self-replicating nanobots and eventually deploy them to wreak havoc on our planet. The researchers argue that it would be cheaper for aliens to “send a malicious message to eradicate humans compared to sending battleships”.
In one scenario, the researchers argued that a message from aliens could be a panic-inducing statement like “We will make your sun go supernova tomorrow”. According to the researchers, if such a threatening message is received in just one location, it may be possible to contain and even destroy it. “If it is received repeatedly, perhaps even by amateurs, containment is impossible,” the researchers wrote in a paper available online on arXiv.
In another scenario, the scientists argue that humans could be tricked into begetting their own demise by aliens offering the “gift” of knowledge. For instance, aliens could transmit a message that reads: “We are friends. The galactic library is attached. It is in the form of an artificial intelligence (AI) which quickly learns your language and will answer your questions. You may execute the code following these instructions…”
Mar 2, 2018
Former Google exec: AI movie death scenarios ‘one to two decades away’
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: military, robotics/AI
WASHINGTON ― Rapid advances in artificial intelligence and military robotics have some concerned that the development of Terminator-like killer robots will be humankind’s downfall. But that doesn’t seem to worry Eric Schmidt, the former executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, who addressed the impact of technology on democracy at the Feb. 16–18 Munich Security Conference.
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Mar 1, 2018
Asteroid Institute adds Google Cloud and AGI as tech partners for asteroid tracking
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: mapping, robotics/AI, space
Google Cloud and AGI (a.k.a. Analytical Graphics Inc.) have gotten on board with the B612 Asteroid Institute to develop a cloud-based platform for keeping track of asteroid discoveries.
The two companies have become technology partners for the Asteroid Decision Analysis and Mapping project, or ADAM, which aims to provide the software infrastructure for analyzing the trajectories of near-Earth objects, identifying potential threats, and sizing up the scenarios for taking action if necessary.
Mar 1, 2018
Dubai tests autonomous pods in drive for smart city
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
DUBAI (Reuters) — Dubai has begun testing autonomous pods in a trial run the Gulf’s trade and tourism hub hopes will help its transformation into one of the smartest cities in the world.
Officials from Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) displayed two cube-shaped vehicles built by U.S.-based Next Future Transportation company in Italy as they spun around on a main street in Dubai.
Passersby stopped to try out the six-seat vehicles and question the Italian engineers overseeing the test.
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Mar 1, 2018
Putting AI in Your Pocket: MIT Chip Cuts Neural Network Power Consumption
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI
Neural networks are powerful things, but they need a lot of juice. Engineers at MIT have now developed a new chip that cuts neural nets’ power consumption by up to 95 percent, potentially allowing them to run on battery-powered mobile devices.
Smartphones these days are getting truly smart, with ever more AI-powered services like digital assistants and real-time translation. But typically the neural nets crunching the data for these services are in the cloud, with data from smartphones ferried back and forth.
That’s not ideal, as it requires a lot of communication bandwidth and means potentially sensitive data is being transmitted and stored on servers outside the user’s control. But the huge amounts of energy needed to power the GPUs neural networks run on make it impractical to implement them in devices that run on limited battery power.
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Feb 28, 2018
A National Machine Intelligence Strategy for the United States
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: business, economics, policy, robotics/AI, security, transportation
This event will be webcast live from this page.
The Technology Policy Program invites you to the launch of our upcoming report, A National Machine Intelligence Strategy for the United States.
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Feb 28, 2018
Forces of change: The future of mobility
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: business, economics, robotics/AI, transportation
The transition toward a new mobility ecosystem could have wide-reaching impacts that span a host of industries and players, including—but not limited to:
Global automotive OEMs face momentous and difficult decisions. OEMs will need to determine if they should evolve from a (relatively) fixed capital production, first-transaction, product-sale business into one centered on being an end-to-end mobility services provider. This would represent a profound business model change and the development of entirely new capabilities to be competitively and sustainably viable.
The traditional capabilities of vehicle manufacturers and suppliers will likely need to expand, collaborating with autonomous vehicle technology suppliers, software developers, and others to provide a much broader range of product choices.12 There are complex economics in being able to manufacture vehicles similar to today’s mass-produced driver-owned cars, highly customized personally owned autonomous vehicles, and utilitarian pods for urban environments. Manufacturers will likely require not only today’s traditional supply chains but new manufacturing capabilities that allow advanced, low-cost, efficient customization. They will need to determine if they should redesign their business model to compete in all four future states or to focus on one segment.
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