On a mire humerous note:
AI and particularly robots; can easily pick up on people’s patterns/ styles to the point where they can write your speeches and possibly develop your PowerPoint presentations. Procrastinators will no longer have to stress about pulling their slides together, interns will have more availability to work on projects, and politicians will sound like a pro with this robot.
BTW — the robot in this articile was so good at mimicking the politician; that the robot (just the politician) in the speech kept thanking everyone in the chamber after it yielded time back to the speaker. Maybe our politicians will start sending their robots to vote for them in the future.
Computer researchers have created programs that can do the job quite nicely, explains Brian Fung.
Man’s best friend could eventually be a robot — could it happen?
Scientists at Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems Research, University of Lincoln, UK, have developed robots that can be companions for people.
A robot manipulated by a glove & it only cost them $150 USD.
Computer engineering students Mohammad Zyoud, Mohammad Atiyyeh and Suhaib Tawafsheh spent eight months working on the self-funded project which cost them around 150 USD.”
Interesting article in how folks are trying to do more work on personalizing robots to people’s moods; etc.
How you look at a robot and how it looks at you can make you more comfortable.
Definitely, we’re already seeing the research releases on microbots.
A famed futurist who foresees a day when and human and artificial intelligence merge and nanobots battle disease spoke to CBC’s Duncan McCue about what lies ahead.
Self driving cars to reach a $4bil revenue target within 10 yrs.
The White House wants to spend nearly $4 billion on self-driving cars, a move some experts say could help put extra horsepower behind autonomous vehicles and have them cruising America’s streets within the next 10 years.
“That is a serious amount of money,” Wendy Ju, executive director of Stanford’s Center for Design Research, told NBC News.
If those dollars make it into the budget, the money would be used for “pilot programs to test connected vehicle systems in designated corridors throughout the country,” according to the Department of Transportation.
Artificial intelligence researchers at Google DeepMind are celebrating after reaching a major breakthrough that’s been pursued for more than 20 years: The team taught a computer program the ancient game of Go, which has long been considered the most challenging game for an an artificial intelligence to learn. Not only can the team’s program play Go, it’s actually very good at it.
The computer program AlphaGo was developed by Google DeepMind specifically with the task of beating professional human players in the ancient game. The group challenged the three-time European Go Champion Fan Hui to a series of matches, and for the first time ever, the software was able to beat a professional player in all five of the games played on a full-sized board. The team announced the breakthrough in a Nature article published today.
Google has achieved one of the long-standing “grand challenges” of AI, building a computer capable of beating expert players of the board game Go.
The list of uniquely human achievements has just become shorter: Google’s AI has defeated the reigning 3-time European Go champion.
DeepMind’s program AlphaGo, masters the ancient game of Go. First ever program to defeat a human professional player!