Robotics/AI – Lifeboat News: The Blog

Jun 24
2018

These robots help Walmart restock groceries

Walmart groceries use Bossa Nova robots, which roam the aisles and scan shelves, to figure out what’s in stock and what’s selling well.

Jun 24
2018

Using Coffee to Treat Diabetes

This is the Freethink Dispatch, our rundown of the stories that mattered from the frontiers of a changing world. This week, engineers created brain-surgery robots that can work inside an MRI, scientists found a way to use coffee to treat diabetes, and a startup is making fresh produce that lasts twice as long. All that and more, plus a new episode of Freethink’s original hit series Superhuman about how doctors are reprogramming the immune system to kill untreatable cancers.

These stories made us think and got us inspired. We hope they’ll do the same for you.

Jun 24
2018

This artificial intelligence can see through walls

There’s no place to hide.

Jun 24
2018

A Plea for AI That Serves Humanity Instead of Replacing It

A new group formed by MIT’s Media Lab and IEEE thinks artificial intelligence should complement human endeavors, not just serve the corporate bottom line.

Jun 24
2018

This AI can see you through walls

X-ray vision has long seemed like a far-fetched sci-fi fantasy, but over the last decade a team led by Professor Dina Katabi from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has continually gotten us closer to seeing through walls.

Their latest project, “RF-Pose,” uses artificial intelligence (AI) to teach wireless devices to sense people’s postures and movement, even from the other side of a wall.

Jun 23
2018

Opinions on #ArtificialIntelligence are a dime a dozen, unless you’re hearing from one of the field’s pioneers

Join us at D60, DARPA’s 60th anniversary symposium, to learn from Ron Brachman about how #AI rose to prominence.

Artificial Intelligence has experienced waves of excitement before, but we have never seen the kind of worldwide enthusiasm that we see now, especially in the commercial sector, where AI has become the central mission of some of the world’s most powerful tech companies. DARPA is known for being the first supporter of AI research and panelists will highlight the impetus DARPA provided to the field’s most central technological areas, and give insights about where the field is going next.

Jun 23
2018

This AI has been debating real humans — and doing a pretty good job

The best AI in the world is some where in the IQ range of the high 50’s to low 60’s, and is doing this kind of stuff. Should be pretty interesting to see what the average human level AI of 2029 can do.

IBM’s Project Debater has shown off its talents in public for the first time.

Jun 23
2018

This Engineer Is Building an Armada of Saildrones That Could Remake Weather Forecasting

https://bloom.bg/2Ggfedp

Engineer and adventurer Richard Jenkins has made oceangoing robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and environmental science. His aim: a thousand of them.

Jun 23
2018

This floating robotic factory will build satellites and spaceships in orbit

The Archinaut, a system made of 3D printers and robotic arms, could be the flying factory humans need to colonize space.

Jun 23
2018

How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Us Live Longer

Insilico and its researchers are the first in the world to use GANs to generate molecules.

“The GAN technique is essentially an adversarial game between two deep neural networks,” as Alex explains.

While one generates meaningful noise in response to input, the other evaluates the generator’s output. Both networks thereby learn to generate increasingly perfect output.