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Sep 7, 2016
How robots, drones and artificial intelligence will change everything
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, drones, economics, food, media & arts, robotics/AI, virtual reality
Silicon Valley, or the Greater Bay Area, is the 18th largest economy in the world, more than half the size of Canada’s economy and bigger than Switzerland, Saudi Arabia or Turkey. This is because the region has become the world leader in research and development of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, software and virtual reality.
“Software is eating the world,” said Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen famously in 2011. It was controversial but prescient.
Five years later, software-driven machines and drones perform surgery, write news stories, compose music, translate, analyze, wage war, guard, listen, speak and entertain. The world’s biggest box office hits — animated films such as “Frozen” or special effects in Hollywood blockbusters like “Star Wars” — are made using software.
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Sep 6, 2016
These Nanobots Can Repair Circuits All by Themselves
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, nanotechnology, physics, robotics/AI
A new technique uses the curious physical laws of the nano-scale itself to “program” nanobots. Welcome to the future of nanotechnology.
Nanorobotics has long been touted as one of the most promising “miracle technologies” of the future. But one of the fundamental problems with such extreme miniaturization is how to “program” nanobots—after all, you can’t very well shrink computer circuitry to fit within nanometer-scale technology.
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Sep 6, 2016
Intel to Acquire Movidius: Accelerating Computer Vision through RealSense for the Next Wave of Computing
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, drones, robotics/AI, virtual reality
Combined with Intel’s Existing Assets, Movidius Technology – for New Devices Like Drones, Robots, Virtual Reality Headsets and More – Positions Intel to Lead in Providing Computer Vision and Deep Learning Solutions from the Device to the Cloud.
Sep 6, 2016
Robo-tractor: Slick self-driving concept tractor wants to revolutionize farming (VIDEO)
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: food, robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation
Autonomous Solutions Incorporated has revealed Case IH – the concept robo-tractor at The Farm Progress Show – showing off its nifty extras including cameras, radar and sensors that allow the farmer to control the tractor remotely using a tablet.
Sep 6, 2016
Google may have just created artificial intelligence for real because the future is here
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: computing, robotics/AI
If you think you’re computer doesn’t know you better than anybody in your life, then you’re very, very wrong.
Sep 5, 2016
AI Lawyer “Ross” Has Been Hired By Its First Official Law Firm
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, law, robotics/AI
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Ross, the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney, has its first official law firm. Baker & Hostetler announced that they will be employing Ross for its bankruptcy practice, currently comprised of almost 50 lawyers.
Law firm Baker & Hostetler has announced that they are employing IBM’s AI Ross to handle their bankruptcy practice, which at the moment consists of nearly 50 lawyers. According to CEO and co-founder Andrew Arruda, other firms have also signed licenses with Ross, and they will also be making announcements shortly.
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Sep 5, 2016
A Look at IBM’s Watson 5 Years After Its Breathtaking Jeopardy Debut
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: biotech/medical, computing, robotics/AI
The year was 2012, and IBM’s AI software Watson was in the midst of its heyday.
Watson beat two of Jeopardy’s all-time champions a year earlier in 2011, and the world was stunned. It was the first widespread and successful demonstration of a natural language processing computer of its class. Combined with the popularity of Jeopardy, Watson became an immediate mainstream icon.
Later in 2012, IBM announced one of the first major practical partnerships for Watson—a Cleveland Clinic collaboration to bring the system into medical training.
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Sep 5, 2016
Singularity: Is It Possible? Has It Already Begun?
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: employment, robotics/AI, singularity
Singularity: The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity) is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.
Have you ever taken a look at the constantly accelerating world of technology and thought “what happens if these machines become more intelligent than us? Will they develop conscious thoughts and decide that we are inferior and wipe us out? Will they become our bff’s for being their creators? How come our jobs are rapidly being replaced by machines? What will be the role of humans if we are no longer the most intelligent beings? Is this at all even possible?”
I find these ideas interesting to think about and I think the notion of singularity is a possibility that should at least be considered. In this article I’m going to outline a few of the issues surrounding intelligent machines and advanced AI. As well as give some of my personal opinions about the topic.
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Sep 5, 2016
Artificial intelligence wants to be your bro, not your foe
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: computing, economics, education, employment, policy, robotics/AI, surveillance, transportation
The odds that artificial intelligence will enslave or eliminate humankind within the next decade or so are thankfully slim. So concludes a major report from Stanford University on the social and economic implications of artificial intelligence.
At the same time, however, the report concludes that AI looks certain to upend huge aspects of everyday life, from employment and education to transportation and entertainment. More than 20 leaders in the fields of AI, computer science, and robotics coauthored the report. The analysis is significant because the public alarm over the impact of AI threatens to shape public policy and corporate decisions.
It predicts that automated trucks, flying vehicles, and personal robots will be commonplace by 2030, but cautions that remaining technical obstacles will limit such technologies to certain niches. It also warns that the social and ethical implications of advances in AI, such as the potential for unemployment in certain areas and likely erosions of privacy driven by new forms of surveillance and data mining, will need to be open to discussion and debate.
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