The other side of the ledger: where AI and robots are making life better.
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What Happened, 18 Years Ago
The Documentary that I made in 2001/2 about the dotcom crashes recently passed 100k views, which to me is pretty amazing seeing as I would have been happy if a…
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Debate This
AI debate program narrowly loses to the best debater. In a way, Debater follows IBM’s philosophy of constructing a man plus machine future, one in which AI augments and supports…
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Trucking in the Right Direction
It’s heartening to see manufacturers not betting on robots replacing humans, but on assisting them to do their jobs better and safer. This truck will make the roads safer for…
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Nick Cave Defends Humanity Against AI
I won’t say must read, but what he says about why AI will never surpass human art should be enshrined. Nick Cave discussing why Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana…
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The Full Duplex
The next big leap in AI user interface will be the AI that initiates contact, that calls you. The Google Duplex may well be the breakthrough on this. This is…
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The Justification for AI in the Home
If I am against general AI being used to control us in any way, why do I have a Google Home, a very limited but still amazing narrow AI, in…
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ThoughtMail and Meet in the Middle AI
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/artificial-intelligence-turns-brain-activity-speech …three research teams recently made progress in turning data from electrodes surgically placed on the brain into computer-generated speech. Using computational models known as neural networks, they reconstructed words…
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Robot clubs
We roll forward into a world where children design our robot future and our robot bosses.. Saw this tonight at a science fair stand. Local robot club creation.
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Be Scared, and Fearless
Let me explain how a computer neural network works in a way that I hope will terrify you, if you believe only humans can exhibit intelligence. I am not going…
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Good Robot, Bad Robot
Here we have examples of three robots. One that helps people who cannot walk to move vertically, one that washes dishes (a smaller dishwasher basically), and the third a walk-out…