When covering this beat, you spend a lot of time trying to demystify the tech and de-terrify the public, and then scientists go and teach a mother robot how to build child bots, evolving them into better and better versions … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 24, 2015
Internet moderation isn’t usually a matter of life and death…unless your mods are the Secret Service (Josephine Wolff) If you virtually prick us, do we actually bleed? Mark Piesing in the FT on the potential for VR to heal things … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 23, 2015
ABA President William Hubbard, about his concerns about the future of tech and the law: “If we don’t have some synthesis of the best technology with those rules and regulations that protect the public, we’ll have two parallel justice systems, one sort of stuck in the past, but with a great amount of protection built into it. And another system, that the public might start favoring — I think the signs are they already favor it — with the efficiency of these online dispute resolution services but without the protections that are built into the systems.” Continue reading Tech and the Law: An Interview with American Bar Association President William Hubbard
A case for evolutionary algorithms as A.I.’s next big thing A new study on robot surgery says it’s unclear how many complications — and deaths — it contributes to, says Keith Wagstaff. (Link to the full study). A new startup … Continue reading Roundup of intelligent machine links for July 22, 2015
Hollywood is forever coming up with new ways to terrify us with the power of smart machines, but this maybe one they haven’t yet hit on: It seems machine learning could make telemarketing more efficient, according to this profile of … Continue reading Roundup for July 21, 2015
To kick off media Mondays on Monkey Paw Robot Arm, I thought today I’d link to this recent podcast from NPR show On Point, about the threat posed by A.I. Tom Ashbrook, the host, makes Max Tegmark, head of the … Continue reading Podcast: On Point on whether we can save ourselves from robot doom
Can A.I. stop human ingenuity in its tracks? Social media sites hope so, at least when it comes to trolls. Wired’s Davey Alba profiles Twitter et al’s attempts to stop harassment via machine learning, while this blog post at The … Continue reading Roundup for July 20, 2015
IBM wants to help teachers with its Watson tech, but they’re skeptical (h/t Mary Jo Madda). Meanwhile, it’s tryng to help the rest of us tone it down — or up, as the case may be, with a free app … Continue reading Roundup for July 17, 2015
Re/Code goes deep on deep learning, with an explanatory op-ed and over-the-top profile of its godfathers. (To hear Hinton explain himself, check out the podcast we linked here.) Mark Bergen and Kurt Wagner are pulling the steam whistle on the … Continue reading Roundup for July 16, 2015
Beginning to think the Japanese just find taking a dip into the Uncanny Valley akin to taking a warm bath, after viewing the front desk staff at a new robot hotel unveiled today in Nagasaki (via Carla Sinclair at Boing Boing). … Continue reading Roundup for July 15, 2015
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