Probabilistic programming from scratch
Real-world data is almost always incomplete or innaccurate in some way. This means that the uncertain conclusions we draw from it are only meaningful if we can answer the question: how uncertain? One...
View ArticleAmazon’s vision for the future: delivery drone beehives in every city
Amazon’s drone delivery program stopped being a joke a while ago, but the company still has to overcome serious challenges to make the technology actually work. One of these is getting drones near...
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View ArticleRay Kurzweil: Here's What Will Happen When We Connect Our Brains to the...
Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, thinker, and futurist famous for forecasting the pace of technology and predicting the world of tomorrow. In this video, Kurzweil looks ahead to a time in the...
View ArticleSilicon Valley’s Latest Craze: Brain Tech
Editor's Pick Silicon Valley’s biggest influencers want to get inside your head. Over the past year, four leading figures have announced plans to make gadgets that will either nestle into the fleshy...
View ArticleHow I Built an AI to Sort 2 Tons of Lego Pieces
Editor's Pick For many years as a child, I did nothing but play with Lego. Eventually I had children of my own, who had a nice Lego collection themselves, but nothing you’d need machinery to sort. That...
View ArticleSpaceX successfully launches and lands a used rocket for the second time
SpaceX has successfully launched and landed a recycled Falcon 9 rocket for the second time. The rocket’s first stage — the 14-story-tall core that houses the fuel and the rocket’s main engines —...
View ArticleIs the Manufacturing Recovery Real?
U.S. manufacturing got walloped during the Great Recession. It lost 20% of its output and 15% of its workforce. “That’s second only to the Great Depression of the 1930s, when it lost about half its...
View ArticleHow Artificial Intelligence is set to disrupt our legal framework for...
It’s safe to say that most sectors will undergo significant disruption as a result of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. AI will not only disrupt our business models but it will also disrupt our...
View ArticleDeep Learning at the Speed of Light on Nanophotonic Chips
Deep learning has transformed the field of artificial intelligence, but the limitations of conventional computer hardware are already hindering progress. Researchers at MIT think their new...
View ArticleIs There a Multidimensional Mathematical World Hidden in the Brain’s...
Two thousand years ago, the ancient Greeks looked into the night sky and saw geometric shapes emerge among the stars: a hunter, a lion, a water vase. In a way, they used these constellations to make...
View ArticleMore efficient and safer: How drones are changing the workplace
by Industrial-Automation Views June 23, 2017 Technology-driven automation plays a critical role in the global economy, and its visibility in our lives is growing. As technology impacts more and more...
View ArticlePresident Trump’s Lies, the Definitive List
Opinion Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump’s lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly...
View ArticleAmazon’s idea for a massive drone dock looks like a cross between a beehive...
Amazon has applied for a patent for tailoring its fulfillment centers for a future where drones are delivering items to people’s doorsteps in urban areas. The e-commerce giant imagines beehive-like...
View ArticleDeep Learning in Robotics
interview by Industrial-Automation June 24, 2017 In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Sergey Levine, assistant professor at UC Berkeley, about deep learning on robotics. Levine explains what deep...
View ArticleWill AI Create as Many Jobs as It Eliminates?
A new global study finds several new categories of human jobs emerging, requiring skills and training that will take many companies by surprise. The threat that automation will eliminate a broad swath...
View ArticleThis Swedish company is implanting microchips in its employees
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View ArticleThe Robot-Human Alliance
June 11, 2017 4:39 p.m. ET Humans have been beaten by a machine again. Last month the world’s top-ranked player of Go, an abstract strategy board game, lost to Google’s AlphaGo program. This marked a...
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