#429673 Can Futurists Predict the Year of the ...

The end of the world as we know it is near. And that’s a good thing, according to many of the futurists who are predicting the imminent arrival of what’s been called the technological singularity.
The technological singularity is the idea that technological progress, particularly in artificial intelligence, will reach a tipping point to where machines are exponentially smarter than humans. It has been a hot topic of late.
Well-known futurist and Google engineer Ray Kurzweil (co-founder and chancellor of Singularity […] Continue Reading…

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#429672 ‘Ghost in the Shell’: ...

With the new sci-fi flick "Ghost in the Shell" hitting theaters this week, Scientific American asks artificial intelligence experts which movies, if any, have gotten AI right.[Read more…]

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#429670 ‘Ghost in the Shell’: ...

With the new sci-fi flick "Ghost in the Shell" hitting theaters this week, Scientific American asks artificial intelligence experts which movies, if any, have gotten AI right.[Read more…]

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#429666 Google Chases General Intelligence With ...

For a mind to be capable of tackling anything, it has to have a memory.
Humans are exceptionally good at transferring old skills to new problems. Machines, despite all their recent wins against humans, aren’t. This is partly due to how they’re trained: artificial neural networks like Google’s DeepMind learn to master a singular task and call it quits. To learn a new task, it has to reset, wiping out previous memories and starting again from scratch.
This phenomenon, quite aptly […] Continue Reading…

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#429661 Video Friday: Robotics for Happiness, ...

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos[Read more…]

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