Hackers will start to get help from robots and artificial intelligence soon.
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It won’t be like an army of robots marching in the streets, but AI hacking is on the horizon.
Robots can also lend a hand of sorts.
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Robots have the potential to help support a growing population that wants to age in their own homes. But those helpful machines won’t be the humanoid butlers of science fiction.
Who could have predicted it would end like this?
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The unexpected behaviour of even simple bots is only going to get more dramatic as AI scales up.
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, now in 3D.
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It’s more than 25 years since Arnold Schwarzenegger returned in the Terminator 2: Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Now he’s back in glorious 3D, so how does the story and the science stack up today?
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Despite claims of scientific differences, the real reason behind the lack of women in computing is cultural, not biological.
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Asking whether machines can really understand us is meaningless.
Is it safe to cross?
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Pedestrians ensure their safety by making eye contact with human drivers. Autonomous cars will have to communicate with nearby people in other ways.
If you tell a robot secrets, you might want to make sure it can forget them too.
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Robots have a lot to learn from humans when it comes to memory.
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If robots and AI are our future, we need to embrace the technology and work out how best to collaborate and make it work for everyone
Who’s really running elections these days?
Artificial intelligence now plays as big a role in election campaigns as traditional campaign tactics.
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The quest for technology to be the salvation of humankind neglects to consider some darker truths that lead to dystopia.
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A glimpse of tomorrow’s world.
Data big and small have come to education, from creating online platforms to increasing standardised assessments.
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We should consider how artificial intelligence will impact how we teach, what we teach, and its potential to ethically support innovation and improvement in education.
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Smart machines are about to usher in the age of Industry 4.0.
Will AI take over the world or lead to a bright future for humanity?
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Not everyone agrees on how artificial intelligence will change the way we live. But it’s not all doom and gloom either.
Will the robots come to control us?
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He spends his days developing artificial intelligence systems. What about AI keeps him up at night?
Prometheus statue at Rockefeller Center, Manhattan. The inscription behind it is a paraphrase of Aeschylus that reads: “Prometheus, teacher in every art, brought the fire that hath proved to mortals a means to mighty ends”.
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How the idea of a hyper-connected society could quickly go from utopia to dystopia and why neither scenario is likely to last.
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Robots should be empowered to pick the action that most helps humans.
This image was produced by the AI algorithm of the neural network ‘Deep Dream Generator’.
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Dire dystopian predictions aside, the real danger of artificial intelligence is not the notorious “AI singularity” but job loss and misuse by malevolent people.
The future of citizenship is more distributed, interactive and local than dealing with central government through new technology. That may be sad news for those who wish to interact with the likes of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in virtual reality if not in person.
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The disruptive impact of intelligent machines and new social movements will force us to remake citizenship into a more personal pursuit over the next 150 years.