Some robots are trained in pain, others learn to draw correct ethical conclusions, but in New York three Japanese NAO robots displayed reactions considered to be the first signs of …
Bring the pain!
Chasing AI (artificial intelligence), the “holy grail” in the field of information technology and robotics, researchers are testing various paths. One of them is breaking the problem into pieces. Thus, …
Artificial racism
On the 23rd of last March, Microsoft launched an ambitious experiment on machines’ ability to learn and evolve mentally in real time. The goal of the experiment was to show …
knowledge accelerator
It could be the plot of a futuristic movie. Yet it is an idea for the organized devaluation of (also) intellectual labor. Not “sector by sector,” but as a general …
algorithmic predictions
“Big data” are not (more precisely: must not be allowed to be) merely vast piles of data that clever machines will dig through each time, on demand, now extracting one …
scientific “truths”
“Researchers lie” (not always!). If you make this kind of observation in front of even one researcher, from any field, you’ll get seriously bashed. It’s the fate of the “unskilled”: …
NEIL
NEIL (Never Ending Image Learning) has been running at Carnegie Mellon University in the US since July 2013, 24 hours a day. Guided by computer vision algorithms, it scans millions …
the new member of the board of directors
It is not symptomatic that the chair in front of the laptop, at the corner of the table, is empty. Nobody went to the restroom; the machine has its place, …
robot-killer
The machine on the left in the photo is called SGR-1, it is built by South Korean Samsung, and it is the first “semi-autonomous” robot-soldier-killer. It has a machine gun …
uninterrupted transport
This is a fundamental function of technology: to replace living labour. To throw workers onto the street, that is, in order to keep the working class disciplined. The excerpt below …
robotic self-organization
From a technological and construction perspective, it is something remarkable. The robotic ants are the work of one of the leading companies in research and application of cutting-edge technologies: the …
automatic execution
The vehicle in the image could be a small tank. And indeed it is. With a difference. It is robotic and completely autonomous. “Completely autonomous” means that it is guided …