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Planes Without Pilots
Mounting evidence that the co-pilot crashed a Germanwings plane into a French mountain has prompted a global debate about how to better screen crewmembers for mental...
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How Google Is Making Sure Cows Won't Foil Its Self-Driving Cars
Most of us haven't had a cow wander on to a road in front of us while we're driving. Still, it's the type of situation Google is wisely anticipating.
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Sabina, New Domestic Service Robot
New software enables a domestic service robot to learn under user guidance via remote control, voice commands, or by being shown the tasks.
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Google Patented Building Robots with Personalities
Whether or not we are headed toward a robot revolution, Google wants us to get comfortable with the next generation of robots.
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A Robot Prepared For Self-Awareness
Hector is an ambulatory robot developed at Bielefeld University endowed with a rudimentary form of consciousness.
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This Air Force Tech Could've Averted the Germanwings Crash
An old aviators' joke goes like this: In the future, airline cockpit crews will consist of one pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to feed the dog, the dog is there...
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AI Interns: Software Already Taking Jobs from Humans
Forget Skynet. Hypothetical world-ending artificial intelligence makes headlines, but the hype ignores what's happening right under our noses.
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Facebook AI Software Learns and Answers Questions
New artificial intelligence software developed by Facebook can process text and then answer questions about it.
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Festo nleashes New Robotic Swarm of Ants and Butterflies
The family of animal robots created by German robotics company Festo is growing. As part of its Bionic Learning Network, the company has introduced two new robots...
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Germanwings Flight 9525, Technology, and the Question of Trust
Shortly before the dreadful crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, I happened to be reading part of "The Second Machine Age," a book by two academics at M.I.T., Erik...
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The Smartest Hackers in the Room (hint: They're Not the Humans)
Teams from around the world will engage in a dress rehearsal next month for the U.S. Pentagon's Cyber Grand Challenge, a competition to develop automated hacker...
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Expert: Artificial Intelligence Systems More Apt to Fail Than to Destroy
Oregon State University professor and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence president Thomas Dietterich says he is more concerned about potential...
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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak on the Apple Watch, Electric Cars, and the Surpassing of Humanity
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is concerned about what rapid advancements in artificial intelligence will mean for the future of humanity.
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Me, Myself, and Icub: Meet the Robot With a Self
Researchers at the University of Sheffield's Sheffield Robotics program are trying to give their iCub robot an artificial "self."
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Rewriting the Rules of Turing's Imitation Game
We have self-driving cars, knowledgeable digital assistants, and software capable of putting names to faces as well as any expert.
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For a Brighter Robotics Future, It's Time to Offload Their Brains
Robots already stand in for humans in some of the dullest and most dangerous jobs there are, handling everything from painting cars to drilling rocks on Mars.
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Voice Control Will Force an Overhaul of the Whole Internet
Jason Mars built his own Siri and then he gave it away.
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Robot Model for Infant Learning Shows Bodily Posture May Affect Memory and Learning
Researchers have used robot models of infants to study how "objects of cognition," such as words or memories of physical objects, are connected to the position...
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Will Smart Machines Make S Stupid? AI Experts Weigh In
Experts on artificial intelligence discussed the future of the field this week at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX.
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