Archive for the ‘robotics/AI’ category: Page 2109
Aug 15, 2017
These delivery robots are adding jobs before they take them
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: employment, robotics/AI
Aug 15, 2017
Robot shelf-stack fail suggests they won’t take our jobs just yet
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: employment, robotics/AI
Aug 15, 2017
Elon Musk: AI ‘vastly more risky than North Korea’
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI
Aug 15, 2017
6 ways to make sure AI creates jobs for all and not the few — By Stephane Kasriel | World Economic Forum
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
“If, as The Wall Street Journal suggests, we think of AI as a technology that predicts, it’s much easier to map its impact. We must push ourselves to do that and understand the future of work.”
Aug 15, 2017
Falling Robots Are Funny, but That’s How They’ll Learn to Take Your Job
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: employment, robotics/AI
New clip of ATLAS, having some problems but interesting to see.
If at first you don’t succeed, try again—and, if you’re a robot, again and again and again and again and again and again. Because it’s worth remembering that unlike many humans, automatons will keep at a task until they do achieve success.
This GIF of Boston Dynamics’s Atlas robot taking a tumble, sliced from a TED talk published Monday, has gone viral. Presumably, that’s because when humans aren’t fretting about how they’ll steal our jobs, we sure do seem to enjoy laughing at robots falling over.
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Aug 15, 2017
Internet majors launch ‘AI Challenger’ platform to advance research with huge China data pool
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: internet, robotics/AI
Three Chinese internet majors have set up what is claimed to be the one of the largest open databases for artificial intelligence (AI) in the world, aimed at helping global talent advance AI research by harnessing the huge data pool generated by China’s 750 million internet users.
The platform wants to empower AI researchers and developers to advance their research without constraints of data resources, say its backers.
PUBLISHED : Monday, 14 August, 2017, 5:52pm.
Aug 14, 2017
Where there’s water, there’s probably life—just ask these robots
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: robotics/AI
Aug 14, 2017
These five robots do some very dirty jobs so humans don’t have to
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: employment, robotics/AI
Aug 14, 2017
This Economic Model Organized Asia for Decades. Now It’s Broken
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: economics, employment, food, robotics/AI, sustainability
Pan’s company is at the vanguard of a trend that could have devastating consequences for Asia’s poorest nations. Low-cost manufacturing of clothes, shoes, and the like was the first rung on the economic ladder that Japan, South Korea, China, and other countries used to climb out of poverty after World War II. For decades that process followed a familiar pattern: As the economies of the early movers shifted into more sophisticated industries such as electronics, poorer countries took their place in textiles, offering the cheap labor that low-tech factories traditionally required. Manufacturers got inexpensive goods to ship to Walmarts and Tescos around the world, and poor countries were able to provide mass industrial employment for the first time, giving citizens an alternative to toiling on farms.
Automation threatens to block the ascent of Asia’s poor. Civil unrest could follow.
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