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Further Reading: Arms and the Metal Man, or the Challenge Bots Pose to the Law

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Taking Bots from the Factory To The Living Room: An interview with Whitney Crooks

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Bot of the Week: Moley Robotic’s Robot Chef

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Geoffrey Hinton on recent advances in deep learning

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Spotlight: Agriculture Bots

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Note 1: If this is a revolution, what kind of revolution is it?

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Intelligent Machine Link Roundup Sept. 14, 2015

September 14, 2015 colleenmsullivan

So…will the robots take out jobs? — Yes, please, says Japan. (Yoshiaki Nohara) — Us, too, they’re shit jobs anyway, says China (Cheng Yingqi and Shan Juan) (Rodney Brooks of Rethink Robotics agrees) — Here’s how to find out if … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Link Roundup Sept. 14, 2015

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Intelligent Machine Line Roundup for August 28, 2015

August 28, 2015 colleenmsullivan

A fixie gives a conniption to a self-driving car in Austin, showing some of the kinks to be worked out with the tech. Meanwhile, some of the first self-driving trucks are due to hit Florida highways this year (in a … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Line Roundup for August 28, 2015

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Intelligent machine link roundup for August 21, 2015

August 21, 2015 colleenmsullivan

A check in on how nanotech is already impacting medicine via some Boston startups Who wants to live forever? Hopefully enough people to make this Portugese startup work. (A. Cuthbertson) Cindy Bethal on the future of human-robot interaction. The self … Continue reading Intelligent machine link roundup for August 21, 2015

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Intelligent Machine Link Roundup August 17, 2015

August 17, 2015 colleenmsullivan

Will the quest for a $15 minimum wage make fast food franchises turn to robots? When a robot screws up, who’s responsible? The law may not have any answers… Interesting analysis piece of the impact of bots on the battlefield: … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Link Roundup August 17, 2015

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Men’s Work vs. Women’s Work and the Chilled Granny Problem: A response to Jerry Kaplan

August 5, 2015August 5, 2015 colleenmsullivan

The jobs that actually turn out to vulnerable to robot replacement may not be what we think they are. Continue reading Men’s Work vs. Women’s Work and the Chilled Granny Problem: A response to Jerry Kaplan

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Intelligent Machine Links Roundup for August 4, 2015

August 4, 2015August 5, 2015 colleenmsullivan

Interesting look from Bloomberg on how the insurance industry is tackling the threat from driverless cars. (Noah Buhayar, Peter Robinson). Here’s one interesting little paragraph that jumped out at me: Allstate already offers a device that tracks driving behavior so … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Links Roundup for August 4, 2015

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Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 29, 2015

July 29, 2015July 29, 2015 colleenmsullivan

First link of the day is a really fascinating interactive crib sheet to explain how machine learning works, from the design team at R2D3, aka Stephanie Yee and Tony Chu. I’m excited to see their follow ups.. Amazon is super … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 29, 2015

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Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 28, 2015

July 28, 2015 colleenmsullivan

Professor Stephen Hawking is doing an Ask Me Anything session at Reddit — typically the guest respondent spends a few hours answering questions live, but due to Prof. Hawking’s constraints he’s going to be typing out answers over the coming … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 28, 2015

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Media Monday: Marc Goodman and Future Crimes

July 27, 2015 colleenmsullivan

Came across a great podcast from a couple months back with Marc Goodman, who has written the book Future Crimes. The Wired podcast covers a lot of ground, from crowd-sourcing theft to how to frame a national justice minister with his … Continue reading Media Monday: Marc Goodman and Future Crimes

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Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 27, 2015

July 27, 2015 colleenmsullivan

Inadvertent spotlight on self-driving cars today, with a number of interesting takes: The L.A. Times on the competition to produce the hyper-realistic, 3D, HD maps necessary for self-driving cars (Tracey Lien). Daimler is planning to live-test self driving trucks on German … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 27, 2015

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