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Jun 13, 2023

Asana CEO: ‘The way we work right now will soon look vestigial. Here’s how A.I. will make work more human’

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, surveillance

Finally, stories born from paranoia teach you to see A.I. as the ultimate surveillance tool, watching your every eye moment and jiggle of your mouse. But what if it’s used instead to catch you doing things well, and to foster trust between managers and employees?

With the ability to compile reports of your accomplishments—or even assess their quality—A.I. can help managers better appreciate the output of their employees, rather than relying on quantified inputs, like time spent at your desk. It can watch out for deadlines and critical paths, automatically steering you toward the work that’s most urgent. And if you do fall behind on deadlines, A.I. can let your manager know: They don’t have to poke their nose in all the time just to catch the one time you fell behind. With A.I. helping everyone focus their attention to match intentions as they do their work, managers can instead spend their time investing in ways to support their team and grow individuals.

The way we work right now will soon look vestigial, a kind of social scaffolding in our journey to build something better. We know that A.I. will transform the future of work. Will the future edifices of our labor be austere, brutalist towers that callously process resources? Or will they be beautiful, intricate monuments to growth and thriving?

Jun 13, 2023

Hong Kong Would Be the Bigger Loser from a Google Exit

Posted by in category: policy

The US tech giant’s role in the life of citizens and businesses is far more important than what the city offers in revenue.

Jun 13, 2023

We need to retain research integrity in the AI era

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) tech poses a challenge to ensuring the integrity of research, particularly PhD study, says University of Melbourne expert.

Jun 13, 2023

Nvidia teams with Hexagon to transform industrial digital twins

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

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Hexagon, a Nordic company focused on digital reality, is collaborating with Nvidia to enable industrial digital twins to capture data in real time.

Digital twins are digital replicas of designs such as factories or buildings in the real. The idea of the collaboration is to unite reality capture, manufacturing twins, AI, simulation and visualization to deliver real-time comparisons to real-world models.

Jun 13, 2023

AI unlikely to gain human-like cognition, unless connected to real world through robots, says study

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Connecting artificial intelligence systems to the real world through robots and designing them using principles from evolution is the most likely way AI will gain human-like cognition, according to research from the University of Sheffield.

In a paper published in Science Robotics, Professor Tony Prescott and Dr. Stuart Wilson from the University’s Department of Computer Science, say that AI systems are unlikely to resemble real brain processing no matter how large their neural networks or the datasets used to train them might become, if they remain disembodied.

Current AI systems, such as ChatGPT, use large to solve difficult problems, such as generating intelligible written text. These networks teach AI to process data in a way that is inspired by the human brain and also learn from their mistakes in order to improve and become more accurate.

Jun 13, 2023

A new AI-based approach for controlling autonomous robots

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

In the film “Top Gun: Maverick,” Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, is charged with training young pilots to complete a seemingly impossible mission—to fly their jets deep into a rocky canyon, staying so low to the ground they cannot be detected by radar, then rapidly climb out of the canyon at an extreme angle, avoiding the rock walls. Spoiler alert: With Maverick’s help, these human pilots accomplish their mission.

A machine, on the other hand, would struggle to complete the same pulse-pounding task. To an , for instance, the most straightforward path toward the target is in conflict with what the machine needs to do to avoid colliding with the canyon walls or staying undetected. Many existing AI methods aren’t able to overcome this conflict, known as the stabilize-avoid problem, and would be unable to reach their goal safely.

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Jun 13, 2023

Mind-control robots a reality

Posted by in categories: materials, robotics/AI

The technology was recently demonstrated by the Australian Army, where soldiers operated a Ghost Robotics quadruped robot using the brain-machine interface. Photo supplied by Australian Army. #Graphene


New technology is making mind reading possible with positive implications for the fields of healthcare, aerospace and advanced manufacturing.

Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have developed biosensor technology that will allow you to operate devices, such as robots and machines, solely through thought-control.

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Jun 12, 2023

Dogen City concept looks to take urban living offshore

Posted by in categories: climatology, sustainability

N-ARK

Japanese architectural startup N-ARK may have come up with a concept that could help.

Jun 12, 2023

Novak Djokovic wins French Open with his ‘nanotech’ patch, but what is it?

Posted by in category: nanotechnology

Called TaoPatch, the device has nanocrystals that use body heat to function, but does it really work?

Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic secured his name in tennis history by winning a record 23rd Grand Slam tournament at the French Open in Paris last night, defeating the Norwegian Casper Ruud in the final.

The win takes him ahead of Spaniard Rafael Nadal (22) and Swiss legend Roger Federer (20) for the most Grand Slam wins ever n the history of the sport.

Jun 12, 2023

Future of religion? Hundreds attend Church service conducted by ChatGPT

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Artificial Intelligence is breaking new barriers by the day. Hundreds of worshippers at St. Paul’s Church in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany recently attended a service, entirely conducted by AI with the sermon being presented by the AI chatbot ChatGPT.

An hour before the service even began, people formed a long queue outside the 19th-century, neo-Gothic building to witness what the AI could deliver.

The chatbot’s sermon majorly focused on themes surrounding leaving one’s past behind, living in the present, not being afraid of death and maintaining faith in Jesus Christ. Notably, four different AI avatars took turns to impart the sermons and lead the service.