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
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
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
Does it matter, that a robot is just a computer with arms? That seems to me to be the core of an interesting debate breaking out in the legal world. Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, … Continue reading Further Reading: Arms and the Metal Man, or the Challenge Bots Pose to the Law
The bot of the week this week is a prototype robot chef, which debuted at a trade fair in Germany this April. The bot uses a pair of cutting edge robot hands (NASA is another customer) combined with video-game like … Continue reading Bot of the Week: Moley Robotic’s Robot Chef
If you’re wondering what happened to all those stentorian-voiced filmstrip announcers that used to deliver stern warnings about personal hygiene to the schoolchildren of the 1950s, it turns out they’ve moved to Germany and they’re working for Bayer: But I’m … Continue reading Spotlight: Agriculture Bots
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