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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
