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Dec 5, 2016

Westworld is raising some huge issues about our future

Posted by in categories: ethics, mobile phones, robotics/AI

But Westworld is more than just entertainment. It raises problems that society will have to face head-on as technology gets more powerful. Here are a couple of the biggest.

1. Can we treat robots with respect?

Westworld raises a moral question — at what point do we have to treat machines in a responsible manner? We’re used to dropping our smartphones on the ground without remorse and throwing our broken gadgets in the trash. We may have to think differently as machines show more human traits.

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Dec 5, 2016

Terrifying life-size robot stalker can run faster than humans over rocky terrain

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A 6ft robot is now able to walk and run over rocky terrain and balance itself just like a human.

Google’s Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot has been upgraded so it is able to balance itself as it travels over stones and rocks.

In a video the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition explains: “The Atlas Humanoid walking over small and partial footholds such as small stepping stones or line contacts.

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Dec 5, 2016

Human Intelligence (HI)

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, singularity

Are you scared of Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

Do you believe the warnings from folks like Prof. Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and others?

Is AI the greatest tool humanity will ever create, or are we “summoning the demon”?

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Dec 5, 2016

New tool lets AI learn to do almost anything on a computer

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

OpenAI hopes that by making artificial intelligence more useful, it’ll gain wider use and acceptance.

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Dec 5, 2016

Google DeepMind releases a 3D world to nurture smarter AI agents

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Google DeepMind’s new simulated world could lead to advances in robotics, and help us better understand how humans learn.

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Dec 5, 2016

The 10 Algorithms Machine Learning Engineers Need to Know

Posted by in categories: entertainment, information science, robotics/AI

Read this introductory list of contemporary machine learning algorithms of importance that every engineer should understand.

By James Le, New Story Charity.

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Dec 3, 2016

How the Brain Recognizes Faces

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MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human neurology that previous models have missed.

The researchers designed a machine-learning system that implemented their model, and they trained it to recognize particular faces by feeding it a battery of sample images. They found that the trained system included an intermediate processing step that represented a face’s degree of rotation — say, 45 degrees from center — but not the direction — left or right.

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Dec 3, 2016

Computers with DNA? Brock team working to help make it happen

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

I know this is 2 days old; however, glad I came across it. As Gene Circuitry & Living systems in general are truly advancing more quickly in the recent year than I have seen over the past decade.

The real question is with AI, 3D/ 4D synbio printing, Gene/ Cell Circuitry; which areas of medicine will continue to existing in the next 15 years?


A Brock University research team has created a tool that can potentially be used in a future computer that will be made out of DNA.

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Dec 3, 2016

Google’s Hand-Fed AI Now Gives Answers, Not Just Search Results

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Deep learning is changing how Google’s search engine works. But its new-found efficiency takes a lot of painstaking human work behind the scenes.

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Dec 3, 2016

Robot Babies From Japan Raise Questions About How Parents Bond With AI

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Driven by a declining population, a trend for developing robotic babies has emerged in Japan as a means of encouraging couples to become “parents”. The approaches taken vary widely and are driven by different philosophical approaches that also beg a number of questions, not least whether these robo-tots will achieve the aim of their creators.

To understand all of this it is worth exploring the reasons behind the need to promote population growth in Japan. The issue stems from the disproportionate number of older people. Predictions from the UN suggest that by 2050 there will be about double the number of people living in Japan in the 70-plus age range compared to those aged 15–30. This is blamed on a number of factors including so-called “parasite singles”, more unmarried women and a lack of immigration.

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