Fun article below on upcoming Financial Times event. Transhumanism and AI will be a part of the discussions at the event. They’re going to have lots of weird technology there, as well as robots wandering around.
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Just as Stephen Hawking warned? Here comes ‘the world’s angriest robot’ — CNET
Technically Incorrect: A New Zealand-based company says it’s building a very, very angry robot to help companies deal with angry customers.
‘We’re a long way from a singularity’ says ‘Ex Machina’ AI consultant — by Luke Westaway c/net
On-screen robots tend to rise up and crush their puny human masters with alarming regularity.
“I decided to log every single incidence of artificial intelligence or robots in the history of cinema,” Adam Rutherford, a British geneticist and author who served as AI consultant on the recent film “Ex Machina”, tells CNET’s Crave blog. “I think I calculated that 65 percent of them end up being a threat, and the rest of them are just servile.” Read more
Meet the New Generation of Robots for Manufacturing — James Hagerty | Wall Street Journal
“Another big trend at work: The Renault robots are ‘collaborative,’ designed to work in proximity to people. Older types of factory robots swing their steel arms with such force that they can bludgeon anyone who strays too close. Using sonar, cameras or other technologies, collaborative robots can sense where people are and slow down or stop to avoid hurting them.” Read more
Will Your Job Be Done By A Machine? — Quoctrung Bui | NPR
“Machines can do some surprising things. But what you really want to know is this: Will your job be around in the future?…The researchers admit that these estimates are rough and likely to be wrong. But consider this a snapshot of what some smart people think the future might look like.” Read more
The debate on lethal robots is starting too late — Russell Brandom | The Verge
“Without human beings making the decision to kill, the concern is that killing will happen indiscriminately, slowly lowering the bar for the use of violent force. Once death happens by algorithm, what’s the incentive to preserve life? ‘Humans must ultimately bear moral responsibility and face the horror of war squarely, not outsource it to machines.’” Read more
Will Superintelligent AI Ignore Humans Instead of Destroying Us? — Jason Koebler | Motherboard
“It’s a nice thought that humans could one day create a superintelligent artificial intelligence, and that intelligence takes a look at us, says “thanks, creator,” and blasts off into space, never to be heard from again. Or maybe the AI moves to the deserts or the Arctic or some other uninhabited place, and we live together peacefully. But it seems like such an outcome is unlikely.” Read more
Damage Recovery Algorithm Could Make All Robots Unstoppable — Evan Ackerman | IEEE Spectrum
“But instead of having to figure out which leg is broken and how, or doing any sort of self-analysis at all, the robot simply starts trying a whole bunch of different gait behaviors through ‘intelligent trial and error,’ converging on something that works by exploring an enormous pregenerated set of potentially effective motions in about two minutes.” Read more