Twenty or thirty years ago, “machines that kill by their own decision” were a matter of science fiction… Five years ago, the military use of complex algorithms (called “artificial intelligence”…) …
Cop with a low center of gravity
If you think that this tractor-like-rubber object among the (Chinese) policemen has been arrested, you are mistaken. It is their newest tech-colleague! The police robot (built by Zhejiang University) was …
With attention, therefore it generates feelings for me
You may not have a home robot yet (vacuum cleaner?) – but 20 years ago you didn’t have a “smart phone” either; you didn’t even know such a remote control …
Restructuring
While in the western world the so-called “artificial intelligence” is presented mainly as a linguistic achievement (with the purpose of accumulating data from its “interlocutors”), in the far east its …
In the wing…
If they knew how to eat them in the industrial slums of Liverpool and Manchester in the 19th century, they would have passed out. And Engels wouldn’t have written that …
Attention to competitors
While in Western capitalist societies “artificial intelligence” appeared in the sphere of consumption (e.g. chatGPT…) with the immediate aim of looting personal data and, in the near future, applications in …
Automations
Although the UN (a creation of the winners of World War II) long ago went bankrupt as a peacemaker, at least its bureaucrats, now in the “final” phase of the …
Robotic megastructures
So far, three-dimensional printers have been associated with the construction of small-sized objects; although such techniques are also being developed for house construction. Quite “ahead” in the field of robotics, …
If it swims like a fish, is it a fish?
Not necessarily. It could be an artificial fish. And because the mind will go to something robotic, there are other kinds too. Like the bio-hybrid fish that biotechnologists from Harvard …
Robotic melancholy
When it premiered, in 2016, it cut a big swath… “Her” company, Hanson Robotics, based in Hong Kong, specializes in high social intelligence machines. As self-presented on its website: Robots …
AI pets
First, watch the two-minute video below, and then we’ll discuss a few things. What did you see? 90% of you thought “another Japanese crap” – right? An artificial intelligence pet… …
p.c. labor
The so-called remote work (we have explained that we prefer the term “work from home”, in order to get rid of the propaganda of idyllic descriptions of the type “work …