The crybaby safe space culture that has invaded college campuses over the past few years has not only made its way to social media – it’s now leeched itself onto artificial intelligence. Tay, Microsoft’s A.I. nightmare that was created to speak “like a teen girl,” was a colossal flop from the beginning. Debuting the “girl” on […]

The computer system that the National Security Agency (also known as the Illegal Spying Agency) uses to identify and track “terrorists” is seriously flawed, warns a shocking new report that takes a closer look at the leaked documents put forward by former NSA subcontractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden. Many innocent people, particularly in Pakistan, are at serious […]

Researchers from MIT have created a small, swallowable robot to help fix internal wounds, administer medicine and remove objects from the stomach that have been accidentally ingested by children. The researchers presented their work at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, which follows  in the foot trails of a string of papers on origami […]

Virtual Reality (VR) continues its pervasive ascent. But it’s more than VR video games or VR movies where one purposely suspends cognition for entertainment purposes. In the past two years, the idea of “immersive journalism” has been barnstorming the newsroom. Nonny de la Peña is considered the Virtual Reality pioneer; she created the very first VR “journalistic” story called Hunger in Los […]

This story is supposed to be about a women flying down the highway over 100 miles per hour and plowing into another vehicle, whose driver is now brain damaged. Even more egregious, the driver that caused the crash was allegedly grabbing a photo via her Snapchat app. But maybe she wasn’t, according to WFSB.com: “A lawsuit filed in Spalding County claims Snapchat tempted a woman […]

Elon Musk wants to make robots sweat. The CEO of SpaceX has created a $1 billion state of the art “Robot Gym” to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The intent of the gym, according to Musk, is to make robots as versatile as humans with respect to thinking. Musk joined forces with Sam Altman to […]

I have no desire to upload my neural network onto a Google hard drive. Seems to me that the mind is so much larger than the physical brain. That’s not a concern to AI scientists and their billions of endowment and Wall Street dollars to map human brains to figure out how to make computers […]

Panasonic recently debuted their robotic exoskeletons, which bestows wearers with superhuman strength and the ability stride at great distances. The firm believes the robotic exoskeletons will be able to help workers and sportsmen lift heavy objects. In particular, the Assist Suit AWN-03 enables wearers to raise large items without straining their back, and the PLN-01 […]

Hanson Robotics touted their android, Sophia, at this year’s SWXW in Austin, Texas. The android is arguably the most human like robot to date, capable of masking 62 different facial expressions. Fundamentally, Sophia was designed to be “as conscious, creative and capable as any human,” according to to CEO of Hanson Robotics, David Hanson. In […]

A day after Microsoft introduced an innocent Artificial Intelligence chat robot to Twitter it has had to delete it after it transformed into an evil Hitler-loving, incestual sex-promoting, ‘Bush did 9/11’-proclaiming robot. (Article by Helena Horton, republished from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/03/24/microsofts-teen-girl-ai-turns-into-a-hitler-loving-sex-robot-wit/) Developers at Microsoft created ‘Tay’, an AI modelled to speak ‘like a teen girl’, in order to improve the customer […]

The robot revolution is no longer a matter of what or how, but a matter of when. And it’s just a matter of 20 more years before we could be losing our jobs to more cost-efficient, and presumably, smarter artificial intelligence. Robots and artificial intelligence could boost productivity by 30% and cut costs by 90% […]

So often Hollywood serves as a sort of idea test-bed for futuristic scientific concepts that often have a habit of becoming reality, but back in 1984 when The Terminator was released, hardly anyone believed that “killer robots” would someday become a reality. But today, as robotics becomes a much more mature scientific field of study, […]

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt believes artificial intelligence (A.I.) can help researchers solve some of the world’s most pressing problems, including population growth, climate change, human development and education. Advances in A.I. have enabled researchers to establish a cause and effect relationship between data by weeding through vast amounts of information, according Schmidt. “AI will play this […]

Pepper is one of the most human-like robots in the world, not so much for its hominid appearance, but for its ability to mirror primal emotions. The machine is revered as the first “robot with a heart.” Pepper was a hit in Japan. The country’s SoftBank Robotics Corporation reports that 1,000 units of the humanoid […]

Seth Shostak, the director of communication at the Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) Institute, is optimistic with respect to the search for extraterrestrials. When it comes to the future of humanity, however, Shostak is a little more grim. In an opinion piece for SETI entitled, “Could This Be Humanity’s Last Century?,” Shostak suggests that the […]