{"id":91644,"date":"2019-06-05T06:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/iron-man-actor-robert-downey-jr-has-vowed-to-use-robotics-and-ai-to-significantly-clean-up-the-earth-in-the-next-decade"},"modified":"2019-06-05T06:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:02:23","slug":"iron-man-actor-robert-downey-jr-has-vowed-to-use-robotics-and-ai-to-significantly-clean-up-the-earth-in-the-next-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/iron-man-actor-robert-downey-jr-has-vowed-to-use-robotics-and-ai-to-significantly-clean-up-the-earth-in-the-next-decade","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Iron Man\u2019 actor Robert Downey Jr. has vowed to use robotics and AI to significantly clean up the Earth in the next decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iron-man-actor-robert-downey-jr-has-vowed-to-use-robotics-and-ai-to-significantly-clean-up-the-earth-in-the-next-decade.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert Downey Jr. doesn\u2019t pretend to be a brilliant scientist \u2014 even though he\u2019s played Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, for the past 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>But on Tuesday night he attended Amazon\u2019s brand new, premier, open-to-the-public Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics and Space (re: MARS) conference in Las Vegas \u2014 a room filled with AI legends, astronauts, and other dignitaries \u2014 as a keynote speaker.<\/p>\n<p>He delivered a gag-filled talk that somehow weaved together the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the evolution of Stark\u2019s Iron Man suits, allusions to his own troubled history with drug addiction, the actual history of artificial intelligence and its pioneers, with a bunch of jokes using the Amazon Alexa voice and Matt Damon (including a videotaped guest appearance by Damon).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/robert-downy-jr-will-use-robotics-ai-to-clean-earth-2019-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Downey Jr. doesn\u2019t pretend to be a brilliant scientist \u2014 even though he\u2019s played Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, for the past 11 years. But on Tuesday night he attended Amazon\u2019s brand new, premier, open-to-the-public Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics and Space (re: MARS) conference in Las Vegas \u2014 a room filled with AI legends, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}