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, …
Transparent world
In the past, all kinds of security services had to “get their hands dirty” in order to achieve a good and reliable rate of filing cases against subjects under surveillance. …
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 …
familiarity count
A recent survey of 1,002 adults in England, on topics related to the (and technological) future, yielded answers that are quite interesting. – Although 60% to 72% (depending on the …
social cats
The site iknowwhereyourcatlives.com is an online page – a project by a professor at the University of Florida. It displays a world map with little cats at the spot where …
paper reality
Early November 2015, 1.2 million subscribers of the print edition of the New York Times received, along with their newspaper, the cardboard construction shown in the image. Some of them …
digital skin
It is unknown what boost the technology / industry of digital sexual intermediaries will receive from the “digital skin” that some technicians are preparing, but it is reasonable that such …
electronic departure and virtual worlds
Is any of this true? I mean, look at this. Look at this! A world built from imagination.Synthetic emotions in pill form. Psychological warfare operations in the form of advertising. …
robot-games
“The children are playing.” Not only with tablets (on the left) but also with small-scale robots (in the middle). Children’s play will undoubtedly be a process of familiarization with domestic …
the politics in dna
… In the past, political scientists were certain that social forces – among them, as the most significant, parents and the immediate environment during childhood – strongly influenced whether people …
mechanic sex appeal
Man becomes, in a way, the sexual organ of the world of machines, like the bee in the plant world, allowing it to reproduce and develop new forms. The mechanical …
cyber-love
The 2015 English psycho-thriller film Ex Machina (not released in Greece), by Alex Garland, tells the story of programmer Caleb Smith, who is invited to the home of his eccentric …