Star Wars: These Could Be The Droids We Are Looking For
The latest episode of Star Wars is now upon us and has unleashed a new era of science fantasy robots, or “droids” as they are known.
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Robotics
Rise of the Robots: Disruptive Technologies, Artificial Intelligence & Exponential Growth
Professor Doctor Hugo De Garis, Doctor Ben Goertzel and Ivar Moesman discusses various aspects of exponential growth of technology, artificial intelligence, bitcoin and 3D printing
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Brain-machine Interfaces as a Challenge to the “Moment of Singularity”
Ray Kurzweil predicts that artificial intelligence will equal and then surpass human intelligence in the not-too-distant future, in what he calls the “moment of singularity.” Advances in brain/machine interfacing (BMI) may be viewed as a challenge to this futuristic prediction.
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Deus Sex — the ethics of robot love
There was to have been a conference in Malaysia recently called Love and Sex with Robots but it was cancelled.
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Slowly, Clunkily Racing Toward the Robot Revolution: Lessons from the DARPA Grand Challenge
What went right with the DARPA Grand Challenge? What went wrong? What was learned? What comes next?
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What will the advent of advanced Artificial Intelligences and robotics mean for humanity?
The potential for humans to become new kinds of minds via means of AGI and other technologies, will bring amazing new possibilities for joy, growth and choice.
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Polanyi’s Paradox: Will humans maintain any advantage over machines?
There is no denying that improvements in technology allow machines to perform tasks that were once performed best by humans.
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Why haven’t robots taken our jobs?
You’ve probably noticed the trend. The doomsayers are yelling once more. They are telling us that technology poses a threat to human employment — that the robots are coming for our jobs. This is a thesis that has been defended in several academic papers, popular booksand newspaper articles. It has been propounded by leading figures in the tech industry, and repeatedly debated and analysed in the m...
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Software Backdoor Found in Curiosity Rover
A security expert discovered a critical flaw in the VxWorks, one of the most reliable real-time operating systems for the IoT also used by the Curiosity Rover.
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Applied Examples of Analog Biomorphic Design (ICRA 2014)
This session was part of a large IEEE academic robotics conference) in Hong Kong; organized by Ben Goertzel, David Hanson, Mark Tilden and Gino Yu
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