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
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
Wanted to link to an interesting lecture from Martin Ford, author of Rise of the Robots, which came out last month. Ford discusses how his experiences as a successful software developer and entrepreneur tipped him into becoming a prophet of … Continue reading Lecture by Martin Ford, author of Rise of the Robots
Links of the day: An Open Letter on the Digital Economy — “Will robots eat our jobs?” Asks a group of academic and Silicon Valley bigwigs. “Uh….maybe? So we should scramble to rearrange our whole society first” they answer. (More … Continue reading Roundup for June 10, 2015
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