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
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
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
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
Google and Apple want to know what you’re up to there in your car, but car makers don’t want to play ball. Reuters suggest they might be a $40 billion market at stake…. Robots are getting to be a little … Continue reading Roundup for July 13, 2015
What happens when you teach a drone to tail a submarine? Really interesting article on the strategic implications of drone tech for the Navy from David Blagden Those whacky kids over at DARPA are also hoping that A.I. can replace … Continue reading Roundup for July 10, 2015
Car as a service: Used to be people would train their dog to bring them the morning paper. In a world of self-driving cars, could yours complete the Starbucks run for you? — Tech Cheat sheet has a run down … Continue reading Roundup for July 6, 2015
If GM and Ford ran Animal Farm, the first law would be “Autonomous cars good, self-driving cars bad,” says The Economist, explaining the distinction between the two and why it matters a heckuva lot to automaker’s bottom lines. Harvard’s Judith … Continue reading Roundup July 2, 2015
Science is finally taking the need for robot ethics seriously, says Nature News’ Boer Deng On the other hand, it may be a little much to ask engineers to solve the kinds of problems that were whistling over Plato’s head … Continue reading Roundup for July 1, 2015
The internet has already decimated travel agents, now Wired thinks a combo of Google Earth, deep machine learning, and smattering of VR may destroy travel itself, says Cade Metz. Amazon could be the whip that gets the rest of home … Continue reading Round up June 30, 2015
