Wendy's Installs Robots In 1,000 Stores To Counter Minimum Wage
• http://www.trueactivist.comThe fast food industry is now reacting to the mandatory minimum wage increases…
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Softbank used Tech Singularity as marketing pitch to get Saudi money into $100 billion ...
• nextbigfuture.com Author: brian wangSoftBank is closing the first round of investment in its $100 billion Technology Vision Fund by the end of this month, people familiar with the matter have said.
Minimum Wage Massacre: Wendy's Unleashes 1,000 Robots To Counter Higher Labor Costs
• http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler DurdenIn yet another awkwardly rational response to government intervention in deciding what's "fair", the blowback from minimum wage demanding fast food workers has struck again.
Could a robotic bike messenger ride the fast lane to autonomous delivery?
• http://newatlas.com, Nick LavarsWhen picturing the autonomous delivery services of the near-future, you'll likely imagine drones buzzing overhead with packages in tow. But some ground-based robots are making a push into this area too, like the six-wheeled delivery droid recently di
Meet the Self-Driving Car Built for Human-Free Racing
• https://www.wired.com, Jack StewartDesigners get to have a lot of fun with self-driving cars.
Japanese Billionaire is creating a $100 billion investment fund...
• http://www.nextbigfuture.comSoftBank Group Corp.'s Masayoshi Son his belief that computers will exceed humans in intelligence in three decades, and that within this period he expects one computer chip to have the equivalent of a 10,000 IQ.
Barcelona opens 'Europe's first' sex doll brothel
• http://www.thelocal.esA new brothel has opened in Barcelona that offers men the chance to fulfill all their fantasies - as long as their fantasies involve hyper-realistic silicone dolls.
Wikipedia bots spent years fighting silent, tiny battles with each other
• http://www.popsci.com, By Sara ChodoshAnd no one even noticed
There are two kinds of AI, and the difference is important
• http://www.popsci.comMost of today's AI is designed to solve specific problems
Next Gen Bipedal Robot Cassie - Behold The Future
• youtube.comBehold The Future...Agility Robotics evolves from OSU research, aims to revolutionize robot mobility. CORVALLIS, Ore. – The rapidly expanding robotics program in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University has spun off one of its first b
Framework for building bio-bots
• nextbigfuture.com Author brian wangFor the past several years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been developing a class of walking "bio-bots" powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical and optical pulses.
A DARPA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence
• https://www.youtube.com, DARPAtvWhat's the ground truth on artificial intelligence (AI)? In this video, John Launchbury, the Director of DARPA's Information Innovation Office (I2O), attempts to demystify AI--what it can do, what it can't do, and where it is headed.
Elon Musk discusses our need to merge more closely with AI at the World Government Summit
• nextbigfuture.comElon Musk indicated at a recent conference that to some degree, we are already cyborgs. You think of the digital tools that you have, the applications that you have.
Don't fear superintelligent AI
• http://www.ted.com, Grady BoochNew tech spawns new anxieties, says scientist and philosopher Grady Booch, but we don't need to be afraid an all-powerful, unfeeling AI.
END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT Tech billionaire Elon Musk issues stark warning...
• https://www.thesun.co, BY ZOE NAUMANEND OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT Tech billionaire Elon Musk issues stark warning saying artificial intellgence could DESTROY human race which is already 'part cyborg' because of its dependence on smartphones
Bill Gates Wants to Tax Robots Just Like Humans
• http://observer.com, By Sage LazzaroRobots are coming for a lot of jobs. And while at first this may seem detrimental, it's actually a good thing.
Ex Google CEO underestimated AI but New CEO Pichai sees transition from smartphone era to AI era
• http://www.nextbigfuture.comEric Schmidt was CEO of Google from Aug 2001 to April 2011. Eric has recently admitted that he underestimated machine learning and artificial intelligence
The Cute Robot That Follows You Around and Schleps All Your Stuff
• https://www.wired.com, David PierceIn the summer months of 2015, Jeffrey Schnapp and a few of his colleagues started collecting rideables.
AI-Powered Body Cams Give Cops The Power To Google Everything They See
• http://www.vocativ.comTaser has started its own in-house AI unit, laying the groundwork for police body cameras that record fully-searchable video evidence
The EU Just Voted to Support Registering Advanced Robots
• https://motherboard.vice.com, JORDAN PEARSONThe European Parliament voted Thursday to accept the recommendations of a wide-ranging report on robots and AI, including calls for a new body to study the economic and social changes they present, and a system for registering advanced robots.
Walking robot takes first steps into the market
• newatlas.com by Ben CoxworthSome day in the not-too-distant future, an autonomous delivery van may pull up in front of your house.
Welcome to the era of transhumanism
• newatlas.com by Rich HaridyIn a compelling webseries from 2012 entitled H+, we were introduced to a future world where much of the population has a hi-tech implant, allowing individuals a direct neural interface with the internet.
Artificial Intelligence technical talent with F-you money...
• http://www.nextbigfuture.comFor the past year, Google's car project has been a talent sieve, thanks to leadership changes, strategy doubts, new startup dreams and rivals luring self-driving technology experts.
Dubai plans roll out of chinese single passenger Ehang 184 self-flying pod taxis starting July 2017
• http://www.nextbigfuture.comDubai has tested a Chinese prototype of a self-driving hover-taxi, its transport authority said on Monday, with the aim of introducing the aerial vehicle in the emirate by July.
Google's New AI Has Learned to Become "Highly Aggressive" in Stressful Situations
• sciencealert.com by Bec CrewIs this how Skynet starts?
Tony Stark Has Jarvis. And Now IBM Has Havyn
• https://www.wired.com, Brian BarrettLast October, 11-year-old Evan Spisak wandered down to his father's basement workshop to help out on a weekend project, a time-honored tradition in homes across the country.
Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age
• http://www.cnbc.comBillionaire Elon Musk is known for his futuristic ideas and his latest suggestion might just save us from being irrelevant as artificial intelligence (AI) grows more prominent.
AI and Bitcoin Are Driving the Next Big Hedge Fund Wave
• https://www.wired.comJeffrey Tarrant is a Wall Street guy. He spent the last thirty years investing in new hedge funds. As the founder and CEO of a firm called Protege Partners, he compares himself to Sam Altman, the president of Y Combinator. What Altman does for Silico
Amazon Builds A Prototype Store Run Almost Entirely By Robots
• http://www.trueactivist.comThe new store will sell food and drink items and as well featuring an in-store pharmacy.
Micromote now one cubic millimeter computer with a megabyte of flash memory....
• nextbigfuture.com Author: brian wangIn 2015, the Michigan Micro Mote constituted the first complete, operational computer system measuring as small as two millimeters across.
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