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All Great Artists Share This One Quality—Can AI Learn It Too?
Think about your favorite work of art. Why do you like it so much? What does it do for you? Be it painting, sculpture, music, or writing, we love art not just for its beauty, but for the reactions and...
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The Neurodiversity Case for Free Speech
Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid personality, with Asperger’s syndrome,...
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Those Afghan Girls Who Built a Robot? They Just Won Silver Medals
CHIME FOR CHANGE is a global campaign founded by Gucci in 2013 to convene, unite and strengthen the voices speaking out for girls and women around the world. CHIME FOR CHANGE Co-Founders Beyoncé...
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This software promises to teach drones how to crash safely in an emergency
by Simon Parkin July 21, 2017 A husband and wife team believe they have the solution to one of the biggest hurdles to drone package delivery. Recommended for You Google’s AI Guru Says That Great...
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LG’s new airport robots will guide you to your gate and clean up your trash
In preparation for next year’s Winter Olympics in South Korea, electronics giant LG is trialling new robots in the country’s largest airport. From today, Seoul’s Incheon International Airport will be...
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How Trump signed a global death warrant for women
Six months ago, one powerful white man in the White House, watched by seven more, signed a piece of paper that will prevent millions of women around the world from deciding what they can and can’t do...
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Supersapiens, the Rise of the Mind
In the new film Supersapiens, writer-director Markus Mooslechner raises a core question: As artificial intelligence rapidly blurs the boundaries between man and machine, are we witnessing the rise of a...
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Helping students transition from the laboratory to robotics startup
A student walked up to me at an event following Monday’s TC Sessions: Robotics event in Cambridge. “I have a question for you,” he said, adding that he was a few months away from becoming a college...
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Next Leap for Robots: Picking Out and Boxing Your Online Order
Robot developers say they are close to a breakthrough—getting a machine to pick up a toy and put it in a box. It is a simple task for a child, but for retailers it has been a big hurdle to automating...
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A lucrative Moscow deal was just approved for the family who set up Trump Jr....
The involvement of a Russian billionaire developer and his pop-star son in setting up a meeting between a Kremlin-linked lawyer and members of Donald Trump’s inner circle may have landed the father-son...
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A solution to job-stealing robots is staring us right in the face
Workers have worried about what machines will do to their jobs for 200 years. Retraining and education are offered as solutions to help workers learn to work with technology instead of being displaced...
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Why Canada Is Able to Do Things Better
When I was a young kid growing up in Montreal, our annual family trips to my grandparents’ Florida condo in the 1970s and ‘80s offered glimpses of a better life. Not just Bubbie and Zadie’s miniature,...
View ArticleWhat are the implications of artificial intelligence?
LORDS 19 July 2017 The Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence has published its call for evidence and invites submissions from all interested individuals and organisations. Submissions must be...
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Google’s AI guru says that great artificial intelligence must build on...
by Jamie Condliffe July 20, 2017 Demis Hassabis knows a thing or two about artificial intelligence: he founded the London-based AI startup DeepMind, which was purchased by Google for $650 million back...
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Watch all of the panels from TC Sessions: Robotics right here
The robotics industry is at an important crossroads. As machines play an increasingly important role in our work and home lives, a lot of difficult questions will need to addressed, from proposed AI...
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Sami Atiya from ABB says industrial robots will add jobs, not take them away
In and interview earlier this week at the TechCrunch Robotics Session held on the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA, Sami Atiya, president of ABB’s Robotics and Motion division, said he believes bringing...
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We need robots to have morals. Could Shakespeare and Austen help?
When he wrote the stories in I, Robot in the 1940s, Isaac Asimov imagined a world in which robots do all humanity’s tedious or unpleasant jobs for them, but where their powers have to be restrained....
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Microsoft’s second-generation HoloLens will include a dedicated AI coprocessor
Microsoft has revealed that it is preparing to equip the second version of its HoloLens VR headset with its own AI processing capabilities to enable more features and services. The firm said that it is...
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Microsoft's next-generation HoloLens processor will feature an AI coprocessor
Microsoft's next-generation Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) will incorporate an AI coprocessor, Microsoft officials have announced. The coming HPU is currently under development, according to...
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CRISPR gene editing tool: Are we ready to play God?
Humans had better be ready to play God. Because we’ve now got the tools to do just that. Credit the recent discovery of CRISPR-Cas9, a powerful gene-editing tool that gives scientists the ability to...
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