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AI Competition Is the New Space Race

Posted by Genevieve Klien in robotics/AI

Dec 28
2018

The technology still has a long way to go despite progress in 2018. The EU, U.S. and China are all determined not to be left behind.

The Surgical Singularity Is Approaching

Posted by Genevieve Klien in robotics/AI, singularity

Dec 27
2018

AI-powered robots may soon be doing some procedures faster, more accurately and with fewer complications than humans.

By Sandip S. Panesar on December 27, 2018

Don’t Fear the Robot Overlords—Embrace Them as Coworkers

Posted by Genevieve Klien in robotics/AI

Dec 27
2018

In factories across the world, machines are beginning to work more intimately with humans without sending them to the unemployment line—or the grave.

Behind the Market Swoon: The Herdlike Behavior of Computerized Trading

Posted by Derick Lee in robotics/AI

Dec 27
2018

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.

One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine

Posted by Ian Hale in information science, robotics/AI

Dec 27
2018

The stunning success of AlphaZero, a deep-learning algorithm, heralds a new age of insight — one that, for humans, may not last long.

Facial Recognition Tech Aims to Identify Good and Evil

Posted by Derick Lee in education, information science, law, privacy, robotics/AI, terrorism

Dec 26
2018

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.

Draft Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI

Posted by Roman Mednitzer in ethics, robotics/AI

Dec 20
2018

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.

Artificial Intelligence Has Some Explaining to Do

Posted by Genevieve Klien in robotics/AI

Dec 19
2018

Software makers offer more transparent machine-learning tools—but there’s a trade-off.

A Bug-Like Robot Uses Electricity to Walk Upside Down

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biological, robotics/AI

Dec 19
2018

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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Robot Car GIF

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in robotics/AI, transportation

Dec 19
2018

Disney’s wall-riding robot.