

Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 28, 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

Media Monday: Marc Goodman and Future Crimes
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

Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 27, 2015
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

Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 24, 2015
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

Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 23, 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

Tech and the Law: An Interview with American Bar Association President William Hubbard
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

Roundup of intelligent machine links for July 22, 2015
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