#439884 This Spooky, Bizarre Haunted House Was ...

AI is slowly getting more creative, and as it does it’s raising questions about the nature of creativity itself, who owns works of art made by computers, and whether conscious machines will make art humans can understand. In the spooky spirit of Halloween, one engineer used an AI to produce a very specific, seasonal kind of “art”: a haunted house.
It’s not a brick-and-mortar house you can walk through, unfortunately; like so many things these days, it’s virtual, and was […] Continue Reading…

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#439882 Robot umpires are coming to baseball. ...

Baseball fans know the bitter heartbreak of calls that don't go their way—especially, a ball that should've been a strike. And, with advances in technology including computer vision, artificial intelligence, and the ubiquity of Wi-Fi, it would be easier than ever for baseball officials to replace humans with robotic umpires.[Read more…]

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#439879 Teaching robots to think like us: Brain ...

Can intelligence be taught to robots? Advances in physical reservoir computing, a technology that makes sense of brain signals, could contribute to creating artificial intelligence machines that think like us.[Read more…]

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#439875 Not So Mysterious After All: Researchers ...

The deep learning neural networks at the heart of modern artificial intelligence are often described as “black boxes” whose inner workings are inscrutable. But new research calls that idea into question, with significant implications for privacy.
Unlike traditional software whose functions are predetermined by a developer, neural networks learn how to process or analyze data by training on examples. They do this by continually adjusting the strength of the links between their many neurons.
By the end of this process, the […] Continue Reading…

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#439870 Video Friday: TurtleBot 4

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!):Silicon Valley Robot Block Party – October 23, 2021 – Oakland, CA, USASSRR 2021 – October 25-27, 2021 – New York, NY, USALet us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. […] Continue Reading…

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