Robotics/AI – Lifeboat News: The Blog

Jul 27
2015

AI and robotics researchers call for global ban on autonomous weapons

More than 1,000 leading artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics researchers and others, including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, just signed and published an open letter from the Future of Life Institute (FLI) today calling for a ban on offensive autonomous weapons.

FLI defines “autonomous weapons” as those that select and engage targets without human intervention, such as armed quadcopters that can search for and eliminate people meeting certain pre-defined criteria, but do not include cruise missiles or remotely piloted drones for which humans make all targeting decisions.

Jul 27
2015

Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking Join Call for Ban on Artificially Intelligent Weapons

Trying to kill the robotics/AI industry.

“It will only be a matter of time until they appear on the black market and in the hands of terrorists”

Jul 27
2015

Musk, Hawking, Wozniak call for ban on autonomous weapons and military AI

Dozens of researchers and tech experts want to prevent a “military AI arms race.”

Jul 27
2015

Google’s Artificial Intelligence Speaks, and She’s a Woman

Stephen Hawking would say the development of artificial intelligence (AI) will end humanity, but there are those who would disagree — Google is one of them.

Jul 24
2015

Sci-Fi: L5 episode 1 [720p]

The crew aboard the spaceship Argo has just awoken from hypersleep to a nightmare. Having spent the last twenty years searching for a new home to salvage humanity from a dying earth they return home and find something has gone terribly wrong. They have been mysteriously impelled 200 years into the future and find not a trace of any human life. The Argo’s Commander, Dr. Richard Adams is determined to find some answers and, aided by the ship’s surgeon, Rod Lewis, and onboard Artificial Intelligence, Clarke, decides to explore the one clue to the massive floating O’Neill colony named L5. After an exploratory skiff goes missing inside the colony, Adams and Lewis venture inside themselves to find the answers they seek, nothing can prepare them for what they are about to find.

Jul 24
2015

Deep Neural Nets Can Now Recognize Your Face in Thermal Images

Matching an infrared image of a face to its visible light counterpart is a difficult task, but one that deep neural networks are now coming to grips with.

Jul 24
2015

HUMANS

A reminder: HUMANS premieres in the U.S. Sunday June 28, 2015 at 9PM EDT on AMC. This eight-part drama series takes place in a parallel present, featuring the Synth — a highly developed, artificially intelligent android servant.

Jul 22
2015

10 Technologies That Could Make Humans Immortal

Will humans ever live forever? With these technological advancements maybe one day. From Robot Avatars to Scientists Manipulating Molecules Alltime10s proudly presents 10 Technologies That Could Make Humans Immortal.

Jul 22
2015

Deep neural network program recognizes sketches more accurately than a human

The Sketch-a-Net program successfully identified a seagull, pigeon, flying bird and standing bird better than humans. (Credit: QMUL, Mathias Eitz, James Hays and Marc Alexa)

Jul 22
2015

Inside Windows Cortana: The Most Human AI Ever Built

Microsoft wants Cortana to be the Alfred to your Batman — handling your communications and attending to your needs. We get up close and personal with one of the most human-like artificial-intelligence interfaces ever made.