Oct 6, 2015
Daimler self-driving lorry
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
A self-driving lorry takes to Germany’s motorways.
Would you feel safe driving next to one?
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Oct 5, 2015
This Startup Wants To Plant One Billion Trees a Year Using Drones
Posted by Phillipe Bojorquez in categories: drones, engineering, food, information science, robotics/AI
The future of Eco conservation?
Deforestation downs 10 billion trees around the globe annually. Replanting trees by hand is slow, expensive, and barely puts a dent in reversing the damage. But one startup wants to use drones that can reforest our increasingly tree-strapped Earth, on a big enough scale to replace slow and expensive hired humans.
The small company, called BioCarbon Engineering, says unmanned aerial vehicles are a great way of covering ravaged woodlands with seedlings that can repopulate the area’s tree population. Around the world, forests and jungles are still being leveled due to lumber overproduction, strip surface mining, urban expansion, and land use for agriculture.
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Oct 5, 2015
Ray Kurzweil on Artificial Intelligence: Don’t Listen to Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI
There’s a rift emerging among the members of the tech super-geniuses club. It’s not about matters of human intelligence, though. Physicist Stephen Hawking and Tesla /SpaceX founder Elon Musk have both recently warned that our sci-fi nightmares about artificial intelligence could actually come true in our lifetimes.
Here’s what Musk, for instance, said during a recent stop at MIT:
I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. Our biggest existential threat is probably that … There should be some regulatory oversight at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like, he’s sure he can control the demon. Didn’t work out.
Oct 5, 2015
“I feel like I’m driving into the future right now” — Bill Whitaker reports on self-driving cars
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Oct 4, 2015
WOW. This robot can learn like a human child
Posted by Albert Sanchez in category: robotics/AI
Oct 4, 2015
How Should We Prepare for the AI Revolution? Ray Kurzweil Responds in This Q&A [Video]
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI
On the cusp of a far-reaching revolution thanks to the advances in artificial intelligence and computing, it’s easy to feel a bit…concerned. Well, maybe more than just a bit, especially if you consider societal attitudes about technology.
Truth is that the way we perceive the world around us is conditioned to a degree by the environment we grow up within. There’s also little doubt that certain cultures are more open and adaptive to technology than others. But one could argue that the potential enhancements that AI could usher in are so dramatically advanced that even the earliest adopters within Silicon Valley aren’t really prepared for what’s coming.
Oct 3, 2015
Daimler tests self-driving truck on German highway
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation
The truck has smart systems including radars, cameras and active speed regulators and works without a human driver — although one has to be in the driver’s seat and take the wheel if necessary.
The standard Mercedes-Benz Actros, fitted with the intelligent “Highway Pilot” system, travelled 14 kilometres (about nine miles) on the A8 motorway, with a driver in the cabin but his hands off the wheel.
“Today’s premiere is a further important step towards the market maturity of autonomously driving trucks -– and towards the safe, sustainable road freight transport of the future,” said Wolfgang Bernhard, board member responsible for Daimler Trucks and Buses.
