Nov 5, 2015
AI will reorganize the human population
Posted by Julius Garcia in category: robotics/AI
Artificial Intelligence will start reorganizing people on the planet long before it will be able to drive your car.
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Nov 5, 2015
Panera CEO Says Robots Will Replace Human Workers
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: business, robotics/AI
Using a touch-screen ordering station instead of speaking to a human while ordering a Panini at Panera is in the imminent future, reports Business Insider.
According to Panera founder and CEO Ron Shaich, a robot revolution will take over companies as labor prices increase and what he calls “digital utilization” goes up, according to the report.
Nov 4, 2015
Dozens of people mistake robot for real woman — and they think she’s ‘sexy’
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: robotics/AI
Viewers are in awe of how lifelike the robot appears — and have even claimed to find her attractive.
Nov 4, 2015
Robot spiders could build giant webs in space
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: robotics/AI, space
The SpiderFab manufacturing system would build huge structures in space using arachnid-like robots.
Nov 3, 2015
How Facebook Will Use Artificial Intelligence to Understand Your Entire Social Life
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, Elon Musk, information science, neuroscience, robotics/AI
Short Bytes: Artificial Intelligence holds a special place in the future of the humanity. Many tech giants, including Facebook, have long been working on improving the AI to make lives better. Facebook has decided to reveal its milestones in Artificial Intelligence Research in the form of a progress report.
It doesn’t matter if you are scared of AI like Elon Musk or Stephen Hawking or if you have an opinion same as that of Google’s chief of Artificial Intelligence that computers are remarkably dumb. Companies are still going through the byzantine process of training the machines and creating human brain algorithms. Meanwhile, Facebook has just announced its progress report.
Facebook’s AI research team (FAIR) will present at NIPS, an Artificial Intelligence conference, its report card and reveal the team’s achievements regarding its state-of-the-art systems. Facebook has been trying to improve the image recognition and has created a system that speeds up the process by 30% using 10 times less training data from previous benchmarks.
Nov 3, 2015
Do we love robots because we hate ourselves?
Posted by Julius Garcia in category: robotics/AI
Nov 3, 2015
Professionals, your time is up, prepare to be sidelined
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: biotech/medical, law, robotics/AI
A new book, The Future of the Professions, argues that machines will soon do the work of lawyers, doctors, and others. Should babies be delivered by robots?
Nov 3, 2015
Skype founders invent self-driving robot that can deliver groceries for £1
Posted by Lily Graca in categories: business, internet, robotics/AI, transportation
The local delivery market is worth approximately £150bn in the UK alone. This includes parcel and delivery companies (20 pc) and personal shopping trips by people (80 pc). Starship said that robot deliveries are potentially five to fifteen times cheaper than current “human-powered” delivery services.
“It does not take the whole delivery chain from an Amazon warehouse to your doorstep, it only takes the last few miles. But right now the last few miles are the most difficult part for the delivery vans. They need to find parking spaces and so forth, so our robot is taking care of that,” said Mr Heinla.
“For the large e-commerce companies it helps to reduce the costs. For the local businesses it opens up new possibilities, allowing people to order deliveries over the internet rather than coming to the store physically.”
Nov 2, 2015
New artificial skin can detect pressure and heat simultaneously
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: computing, cyborgs, materials, mobile phones, robotics/AI
A team of researchers with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology and Dong-A University, both in South Korea, has developed an artificial skin that can detect both pressure and heat with a high degree of sensitivity, at the same time. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the team describes how they created the skin, what they found in testing it and the other types of things it can sense.
Many scientists around the world are working to develop artificial skin, both to benefit robots and human beings who have lost skin sensation or limbs. Such efforts have led to a wide variety of artificial skin types, but until now, none of them have been able to sense both pressure and heat to a high degree, at the same time.
The new artificial skin is a sandwich of materials; at the top there is a flexible surface meant to mimic the human fingerprint (it can sense texture), beneath that sit sensors sandwiched between graphene sheets. The sensors are domed shaped and compress to different degrees when the skin is exposed to different amount of pressure. The compression also causes a small electrical charge to move through the skin, as does heat or sound, which is also transmitted to sensors—the more pressure, heat or sound exerted, the more charge there is—using a computer to measure the charge allows for measuring the degree of sensation “felt.” The ability to sense sound, the team notes, was a bit of a surprise—additional testing showed that the artificial skin was actually better at picking up sound than an iPhone microphone.
Nov 1, 2015
Post-Human
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, entertainment, nanotechnology, robotics/AI
Post-Human is a scifi proof-of-concept short based on the bestselling series of novels by me, David Simpson. Amazingly, filmed over just three hours by a crew of three, the short depicts the opening of Post-Human, drawing back the curtain on the Post-Human world and letting viewers see the world and characters they’ve only been able to imagine previously. You’ll get a taste of a world where everyone is immortal, have onboard mental “mind’s eye” computers, nanotechnology can make your every dream a reality, and thanks to the magnetic targeted fusion implants every post-human has, everyone can fly (and yep, there’s flying in this short!) But there’s a dark side to this brave new world, including the fact that every post-human is monitored from the inside out, and the one artificial superintelligence running the show might be about to make its first big mistake. wink
The entire crew was only three people, including me, and I was behind the camera at all times. The talent is Madison Smith as James Keats, and Bridget Graham as his wife, Katherine. As a result of the expense of the spectacular location, the entire short had to be filmed in three hours, so we had to be lean and fast. What a rush! (Pun intended).
