'Human Rights' For Robots As 'Electronic Persons'
• https://www.technocracy.newsA European Parliament committee has voted in favor of a draft report that proposes granting legal status to robots, categorizing them as "electronic persons".
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Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Google's Geoffrey Hinton Explains How Neural Networks Really Work and Deep Learning
• nextbigfuture.comGoogle's Geoffrey Hinton Explains How Neural Networks Really Work and Deep Learning
The Next Transportation Secretary Seems Pretty Down With Self-Driving Cars
• https://www.wired.com, Aarian MarshallIt is perhaps a stretch to call Elaine Chao, President-Elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of transportation, "hip with it."
Robot kill switches & legal status: MEPs endorse AI proposal
• https://www.rt.comA European Parliament committee has voted in favor of a draft report that proposes granting legal status to robots, categorizing them as "electronic persons".
After quantum dominance, a surge in quantum computer investment, boosts to AI...
• http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangAfter quantum dominance, a surge in quantum computer investment, boosts to AI and overall technological progress and a quantum AI singularity
Thanks to AI, Computers Can Now See Your Health Problems
• https://www.wired.comPatient Number Two was born to first-time parents, late 20s, white. The pregnancy was normal and the birth uncomplicated. But after a few months, it became clear something was wrong.
Google's Latest Self-Driving Car? It's a Minivan
• Wired.com by Alex DaviesLess than a week after exiting its larval, experimental phase and becoming a standalone company under the Alphabet corporate umbrella, Google's self-driving car outfit is showing off its first new car.
AlphaGo won 60 out of 61 games against Go Masters online and tied a game because...
• http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangAlphaGo won 60 out of 61 games against Go Masters online and tied a game because of internet connection timeout
Possible timeline for the emergence of a true space age in the 2020s
• nextbigfuture.comHere is a possible timeline for the emergence of a true space age over the next 20 years.
Consider Ethics When Designing New Technologies
• https://www.technocracy.news, BY: GILLIAM CHRISTIEHow do we ensure that technology works for society?
Here come 'smart stores' with robots, interactive shelves
• https://www.yahoo.com, Anne d'InnocenzioTomorrow's retail stores want to take a page from their online rivals by embracing advanced technology -- everything from helpful robots to interactive mirrors to shelves embedded with sensors.
Algorithms: AI's creepy control must be open to inspection
• https://www.theguardian.comThe accountability of artificial intelligence systems, from Facebook to healthcare, is shaping up to be a hot topic in 2017
'Kids born today will never drive,' says Robot Valley champion
• marketbusinessnews.com, by Catharine PaddockAlready home to Silicon Valley, could California be about to spawn Robot Valley – a new global tech region dedicated to automation? A champion for the cause – in the shape of a professor in San Diego – certainly hopes so, as he anticipates the
The lie-detecting security kiosk of the future
• phys.org by Suzanne FinchWhen you engage in international travel, you may one day find yourself face-to-face with border security that is polite, bilingual and responsive--and robotic.
When Your Boss Is an Algorithm
• fee.org by Cathy ReisenwitzIn the New Inquiry Artist and Programmer, Sam Lavigne points out that we're all working for free for machine learning algorithms.
White House: Robots may take half of our jobs, and we should embrace it
• http://www.marketwatch.com, By ANDREA RIQUIERWill artificial intelligence have unintended consequences?
$160 billion hedge fund wants Artificial intelligence software...
• http://www.nextbigfuture.com,The world's largest hedge fund is building a piece of software to automate the day-to-day management of the firm, including hiring, firing and other strategic decision-making.
A wolverine inspired material...
• http://phys.org, by Sean NealonA wolverine inspired material: Self-healing, transparent, highly stretchable material can be electrically activated
Chips for Deep learning continue to leapfrog in capabilities and efficiency
• http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangDeep learning has continued to drive the computing industry's agenda in 2016. But come 2017, experts say the Artificial Intelligence community will intensify its demand for higher performance and more power efficient "inference" engines for dee
Bionic eyes and Arms
• http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang1. The NHS will pay for 10 people with an inherited form of blindness to be fitted with "bionic eye" implants.
Artificial Intelligence Arms Race is Inevitable But Can It Be Controlled?
• https://www.technocracy.news, Anja KaspersenThe World Economic Forum understands that AI has sparked an international arms race, but the outcome is still unclear. From a Technocrat mind, AI is the solution to all of mankind's societal and personal problems. ? TN Editor
Sex and marriage with robots: science fiction or new reality?
• phys.org by Ruth HolmesSex with robots is "just around the corner", an expert told a global conference in London this week featuring interactive sex toys and discussions on the ethics of relationships with humanoids.
Bootstrapping space industry and a solar system wide civilization with Robots and 3D printing
• http://www.nextbigfuture.comAdvances in robotics and additive manufacturing (3D printing) technologies are game-changing for space colonization.
Are Killer Robots Necessary Or A Threat To Humanity?
• technocracy.news By Bonnie DochertyThe World Economic Forum is thinking about killer robots that Technocrats will place at their feet: Will they use or reject them? ? TN Editor
Mark Zuckerberg has made a Jarvis Artificial Intelligence for his home
• nextbigfuture.comSo far this year, Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO) built a simple AI that he can talk to on his phone and computer, that can control his home, including lights, temperature, appliances, music and security, that learns my tastes and patterns, that can l
World's first spintronics-based artificial intelligence
• nextbigfuture.comResearchers at Tohoku University have, for the first time, successfully demonstrated the basic operation of spintronics-based artificial intelligence.
Amazon Go Will Kill Dreary Lines, Not "Our Jobs"
• http://www.dansanchez.me, Dan SanchezSelf-checkout kiosks at the supermarket? Who wants to stand in a line? The very idea is so barbaric. So early-2016.
This Robotic Suit Wants to Make Your Grandparents Superpowered
• http://motherboard.vice.com, Samantha ColeWould your granny shimmy feet-first into a suit made of electric muscles? "Powered clothing" company Superflex is betting she would, if it meant freedom from a cane and walker.
Nvidia Xavier chip 20 trillion operations per second of deep learning performance...
• nextbigfuture.com....and uses 20 watts which means 50 chips would be a petaOP at a kilowatt
Secret terrifying 13 FOOT 'Avatar war' robot learns to walk and mimic human movements
• http://www.mirror.co.ukThe giant robot, built in South Korea, works by repeating the actions of its pilot sitting inside by moving its enormous arms and legs up and down
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