The Dawn of Skynet

Robot and artificial intelligence developments towards ultimate machine self awareness, with a hint of killer-robot paranoia...

Yuval Noah Harari: Could Big Data Destroy Liberal Democracy?
NPR - NPR/TED Staff
Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Unintended Consequences. Yuval Noah Harari says data is the new source of political power, and he worries that big data and AI technology threaten to destroy liberal
Nov 3, 2018
Reinforcement Learning
Artificial Intelligence: What Is Reinforcement Learning - A Simple Explanation & Practical Examples
Forbes - Bernard Marr
Reinforcement learning is one of the most discussed, followed and contemplated topics in artificial intelligence (AI) as it has the potential to transform most businesses. In this article, I want to provide
Sep 28, 2018
Scared yet? Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot can now jog freely
Digital Trends - Trevor Mogg
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot has been untethered and set free, which, for anyone convinced of an imminent robot uprising, is a rather worrying …
May 12, 2018
The Terrifying Technological Tactics Behind BattleBots
WIRED - Rhett Allain
It's hard not to like BattleBots. It is essentially a modern technology-based sporting event in which teams build remote controlled robot-like things …
Apr 27, 2018
Speed Of Light
What Is Optical Computing (Computing At The Speed of Light)
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Apr 23, 2018
Long-form Journalism
One machine to rule them all: A 'Master Algorithm' may emerge sooner than you think
TNW - Tristan Greene
It’s excusable if you didn’t notice it when a scientist named Daniel J. Buehrer, a retired professor from the National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan, published a white paper earlier this month proposing
Apr 18, 2018
Underwater GPS Inspired by Shrimp Eyes
ieee.org - Jeremy Hsu
Cameras that see light polarization patterns can provide a GPS substitute under the seaA diving trip to the Great Barrier Reef may have unlocked a …
Apr 18, 2018
Self-taught AI is best yet at strategy game Go
nature.com
Artificial-intelligence program AlphaGo Zero trained in just days, without any human input.
Apr 8, 2018
Become A Deep Learning Coder From Scratch In Under A Year
lifehacker.com.au - Nick Douglas
Machine learning (AKA AI) seems bizarre and complicated. It's the tech behind image and speech recognition, recommendation systems, and all kinds of …
Feb 21, 2018
Here are some of the ways experts think AI might screw with us in the next five years
The Verge - James Vincent
When we talk about the dangers posed by artificial intelligence, the emphasis is usually on the unintended side effects. We worry that we might accidentally create a super-intelligent AI and forget to
Feb 21, 2018
Moment robodog fights off human owner to escape laboratory
The Telegraph - By Margi Murphy
This is the moment a robotic dog used brute strength to overcome a human's attempts to stop him escaping from a laboratory room. The bizarre - and slightly terrifying - clip features robotics company Dynamics'
Feb 21, 2018
Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs
MIT Technology Review - Kai-Fu Lee
No matter what anyone tells you, we’re not ready for the massive societal upheavals on the way. I took an Uber to an artificial-intelligence …
Feb 21, 2018
Tesla Model S
Tesla Model S plows into a fire truck while using Autopilot
The Verge - Andrew J. Hawkins
The driver of a Tesla Model S who crashed into a fire truck on a California freeway says he was using Autopilot at the time of the accident, and so far, Tesla isn’t refuting this claim. “Autopilot is for
Jan 24, 2018
Stanford's AI Predicts Death for Better End-of-Life Care
ieee.org - Jeremy Hsu
Deep learning AI is helping screen for ill patients who could benefit from having end-of-life conversations earlier Using artificial intelligence to …
Jan 24, 2018
Watch the Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot Do a Backflip. Yes, a Backflip
WIRED - Condé Nast
Atlas, the hulking humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics, now does backflips. I’ll repeat that. It’s a hulking humanoid that does backflips. Check out …
Nov 18, 2017
Technology
IBM makes 20 qubit quantum computing machine available as a cloud service
TechCrunch - Ron Miller
IBM has been offering quantum computing as a cloud service since last year when it came out with a 5 qubit version of the advanced computers. Today, the company announced that it’s releasing 20-qubit computers,
Nov 11, 2017
Dr Seldon, I presume
The Economist
Data from social networks are making social science more scientific “FOUNDATION”, a novel by Isaac Asimov from the golden age of science fiction, …
Nov 3, 2017
Predictive Analytics
Crystal Balls, Statistics, Big Data, and Psychohistory: Predictive Analytics and Beyond - IEEE Journals & Magazine
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Nov 3, 2017
2017 Predictions, Pt. 2: Psychohistory, Drones-As-A-Service, More Mobile Commerce
digitalistmag.com - Susan Galer
Will this be the year that Big Data and machine learning combine to enable us to actually make sense of our neighbor’s behavior? Will a bigger mobile …
Nov 3, 2017
The US Just Used A Laser Weapon System On A Navy Ship For The First Time
Business Insider - Alex Kuzoian, Associated Press
For the first time, a laser weapon system (LaWS) was successfully operated aboard a US Navy ship. A demonstration of LaWS took place in November aboard the USS Ponce while it was deployed to the Arabian
Sep 27, 2017
Putin Weighs in on Artificial Intelligence and Elon Musk Is Alarmed
bigthink.com - Paul Ratner
Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent remarks about the future with artificial intelligence prompted alarm from Elon Musk. Divining what the …
Sep 24, 2017
Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse
The Wall Street Journal. - Greg Ip
Automation commonly creates more, and better-paying, jobs than it destroys. A case in point: U.S. retailing For retailers, the robot apocalypse isn’t a science-fiction movie. As digital giants swallow
Sep 6, 2017
Apple
Secretive Apple Tries to Open Up on Artificial Intelligence
The Wall Street Journal. - Tripp Mickle
Tech giant launches a blog, participates in conferences as it seeks to draw attention to its AI efforts The battle for artificial-intelligence expertise is forcing Apple Inc. to grapple with its famous
Sep 4, 2017
Collection of letters by codebreaker Alan Turing found in filing cabinet
The Guardian - Josh Halliday North of England correspondent
The correspondence, dating from 1949 to 1954, was found by an academic in a storeroom at the University of Manchester A lost collection of nearly 150 letters from the codebreaker Alan Turing has been in
Aug 27, 2017
Google’s Tensorflow team open-sources speech recognition dataset for DIY AI
VentureBeat - Khari Johnson
Google researchers open-sourced a dataset today to give DIY makers interested in artificial intelligence more tools to create basic voice commands for a range of smart devices. Created by the TensorFlow
Aug 25, 2017
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Dr. Drive
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Aug 14, 2017
A bot just defeated one of the world's best video gamers
CNN Business - by Jackie Wattles
An artificial intelligence program just annihilated its human competition at a world championship video game contest. The AI win stunned the gaming community, because bots are generally considered inferior
Aug 14, 2017
Researchers Break a 100-Year-Old Fundamental Limitation of Physics
futurism.com - Abby Norman
Researchers working at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have successfully challenged a fundamental law that’s limited the physics …
Jun 26, 2017
YouTube
YASKAWA BUSHIDO PROJECT / industrial robot vs sword master
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May 10, 2017