Original Crystal Maze presenter Richard O'Brien.
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Artificial intelligence programmers are burning the midnight oil to make computers better at processing complex problems. Here’s a progress report.
Aldebaran’s Pepper robot is designed to respond to human emotion.
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Building genuine empathy into artificial intelligence is harder than it looks. It might be a while before we see the genuine article in robots.
Bill Buchanan
Programming cars to make ethical decisions like humans poses problems.
Facing an uncertain future.
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If robots will take traditional graduate jobs, universities should be training students in borderless leadership skills.
Augmented reality technology could soon boost our intelligence.
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Many people are concerned about artificial intelligence. But new technologies like augmented reality are blurring the lines between us and the machines.
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A call to ban sex robots is the same knee-jerk reaction faced by other technological advances, and as wrong-headed.
M – no Bond jokes please.
Facebook
What does Facebook’s new AI digital assistant bring to the party that rivals haven’t got? Humans.
We need a formal definition on what we mean by artificial intelligence.
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Plenty of talk about what we want from artificial intelligent systems, but what do we actually mean by AI? From a legal and regulation point of view, we do need a definition.
Any questions for Robbie?
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Have questions about artificial intelligence or the future of robotics? Wondering if your job is vulnerable to automation? Concerned about superintelligent AI? Now’s your chance to ask.
The challenge in making AI machines appear more human.
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If we can make artificial intelligent machines that act more human it raises the question of what sort of emotions we’d like them to express.
Robots in chains but are they really to blame when AI does something wrong?
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There is much debate on the ethics of artificial intelligence machines that are designed to kill. But who’s responsible when a non-lethal AI system causes damage, harm or even death?
The military robots in Marvel’s Iron Man 2 might not be so far from reality.
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Some have argued we should not ban but embrace offensive autonomous weapons, or ‘killer robots’. But the arguments against a ban are weak.
And the crowd goes wild as number 5 kicks the winning goal!
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Hey robot sports fans, here’s the inside story on how UNSW won the world championship in robot soccer last week.
(Potentially) killer AI tech is already here, built into many less ominous sounding everyday objects.
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Why obsess about killer robots of the future, when all the parts are already here, and already in use?
AI researchers should work to make future battlefield robots more ethical.
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If military robots are inevitable, then AI and robotics researchers should work to make them ethical, not retreat by calling for an ineffectual ban.
Picasso’s The Young Ladies of Avignon (1907) scored extremely high when entered into the creativity algorithm.
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Humans are no longer the only judges of creativity. Computers can perform the same task – and may even be more objective.
A ban on killer robots is useless if your enemy doesn’t play by the rules.
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The thousands of people who signed an open letter calling for a ban on autonomous killer weapons and robots are misguided. We already have such killing machines and we should embrace them.
Science fiction abounds with warnings concerning offensive autonomous weapons, or ‘killer robots’.
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We need to ban offensive autonomous weapons - or ‘killer robots’ - before a new arms race to produce them begins.
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The competitors of the robot world cup are creeping closer to the goal of a robotic team that can beat the best human players.
One of the psychadelic nightmares generated by Google’s Inceptionism system.
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Google’s image recognition project has not only generated some disturbing images but also tells us something about how we humans identify objects we see.