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 …
robot wars: the empire of the USA and geopolitics in the robotic age
Robots fascinate humans. Whether it is dystopian stories of cyborg warriors or growing concerns about mass unemployment, the robot is a science fiction archetype that haunts our cultural unconscious. But …
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 …
Robots don’t take our jobs. They become our supervisors!
Both politicians in their election campaigns and corporate executives at their conferences warn about an impending crisis due to automation – a crisis where workers will be replaced, gradually at …
Automatic service quality
A rumor has it that at the peak of the “hot autumn” strike wave in northern italy, Agnelli, the owner of fiat, imagined, wished or wanted to hope for a …
Xenobot
The image we usually have of robots mostly includes a lot of plastic, a lot of metal, power cables, noisy motors and flashing pilots. This was and remains to a …
Counting beans
How many people make a “crowd”? Ten? Fifty? A hundred? Based on experience, we may be able to distinguish a crowd from a group of friends, but if no auxiliary …