September 19, 2019: An attack by American drones in the Afghan province of Nangarhar resulted in the mass murder of 30 farm workers and the injury of another 40, while …
Dude, you trod on me!
The russian-made android robot Fedor is not the first automaton to be found on the International Space Station (ISS). But it is the first one that emitted a “distress signal” …
Your robotic friend
Physiognomists will hang up their boots! If 600 different facial expressions can be engineered in the year 2019, then in 2029 (it is not even in a century, eh?!) how will we distinguish who is who?
My God! What have I done?…
And you may find yourself / Living in a shotgun shack / And you may find yourself / In another part of the world / And you may find yourself …
Collaboration above all…
The announcement itself is undeniably dystopian. Last November, the American DARPA (who else?) announced that it had successfully conducted a live-fire exercise of collaborative robotic weapons—airborne, ground and maritime—without real-time …
artificial intelligence: the Golem of the 4th industrial revolution
You might remember it, or maybe not. There is a method in statistics, quite simple and widespread, so much so that it is often taught even in high school. It …
singularity: technological fetishism and political economy in the 21st century
The concept of the “singularity” refers to the moment when technological evolution will result in producing an artificial super-intelligence, which will bring about unimaginable changes in human civilization. Some futurologists, …
not only artificial intelligence… but also artificial anoia
Every day starts the same way. He has to check a series of sites, follow the latest news, and completely immerse himself in what he himself calls “the flow of …
Automatic justice
The fact that big data management applications (what will look and be called “artificial intelligence”) will replace high-prestige intellectual work has not only been announced, but has already begun. Robotic …
Deep fakes
If you have been alarmed (or angered) by how easily “fake news” spreads through social media networks, hold on to your seat. Technological advances in managing moving images, combined with …
Fake AI
Artificial intelligence is supposedly making leaps and is expected to be one of the key technological directions of the fourth industrial revolution. It is also assumed that it will mechanize …
Watson for president!(are smart algorithms better than stupid politicians?)
Almost 70 years ago, precisely on December 28, 1948, a learned monk, with serious philosophical interests and well-informed about the most recent developments in the techno-scientific research of his time, …