Automation, Robotics, and the Economy
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Passing the Ex Machina Test
Like Her before it, the film Ex Machina presents us with an artificial intelligence — in this case, embodied as a...
Killer Robots: Where Is the World Heading?
[Continuing coverage of the UN’s 2015 conference on killer robots. See all posts in this series here.] Before I...
Blogging the UN Killer Robots Meeting
[First post in a series covering the UN’s 2015 conference on killer robots. See all posts in the...
Does the U.S. Really “Lag” on Military Robots?
In response to our post “U.S. Policy on Robots in Warfare,” Mark Gubrud has passed along to us a comment: It was...
U.S. Policy on Robots in Warfare
“Atlas,” a humanoid robot built by Boston Dynamics and unveiled in 2013 as part of the “Robotics...
Manned Space Exploration Goes West: Oklahoma, OK!
Robotic space exploration is better than no space exploration at all, and the Mars Rovers have proven to be...
Can we control AI? Will we walk away?
While the Singularity Hub normally sticks to reporting on emerging technologies, their primary writer, Aaron Saenz,...
Watson, Can You Hear Me? (The Significance of the “Jeopardy” AI win)
Yesterday, on Jeopardy!, a computer handily beat its human competitors. Stephen Gordon asks, “Did the Singularity...
Progress in Robotics and AI: The Coming Demise of “Jeopardy”
With some irony, I expect, Gizmodo gave the following headline to a story this week about a rudimentary sprinting...
