The military robots in Marvel’s Iron Man 2 might not be so far from reality.
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Some have argued we should not ban but embrace offensive autonomous weapons, or ‘killer robots’. But the arguments against a ban are weak.
And the crowd goes wild as number 5 kicks the winning goal!
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Hey robot sports fans, here’s the inside story on how UNSW won the world championship in robot soccer last week.
(Potentially) killer AI tech is already here, built into many less ominous sounding everyday objects.
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Why obsess about killer robots of the future, when all the parts are already here, and already in use?
AI researchers should work to make future battlefield robots more ethical.
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If military robots are inevitable, then AI and robotics researchers should work to make them ethical, not retreat by calling for an ineffectual ban.
Picasso’s The Young Ladies of Avignon (1907) scored extremely high when entered into the creativity algorithm.
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Humans are no longer the only judges of creativity. Computers can perform the same task – and may even be more objective.
A ban on killer robots is useless if your enemy doesn’t play by the rules.
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The thousands of people who signed an open letter calling for a ban on autonomous killer weapons and robots are misguided. We already have such killing machines and we should embrace them.
Science fiction abounds with warnings concerning offensive autonomous weapons, or ‘killer robots’.
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We need to ban offensive autonomous weapons - or ‘killer robots’ - before a new arms race to produce them begins.
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The competitors of the robot world cup are creeping closer to the goal of a robotic team that can beat the best human players.
One of the psychadelic nightmares generated by Google’s Inceptionism system.
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Google’s image recognition project has not only generated some disturbing images but also tells us something about how we humans identify objects we see.
I’d buy that for a dollar. Or, just steal it from you.
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The rise of robots poses awkward legal questions that we’d be best off tackling sooner rather than later.
Robots! Making easy tasks look difficult.
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Is the rise of the robots on the horizon? Not while closed doors, stairs, and uneven floors still pose a problem.
Under an uncomfortable spotlight.
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The Chinese search engine Baidu was found to have cheated in a computer science competition.
Your smartphone is learning to better understand your voice commands.
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Voice recognition technology is getting better at understanding what we are saying, even if we only say part of what we mean. So how does it work?
“Looks like there’s an unexpected item in the bagging area, puny human.”
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Why would our software turn against us when without us it’s useless?
New thinking the way to job creation for people in the 21st century.
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The more we automate jobs, the more we need to find new jobs for people, especially if the government wants us to stay in the workforce longer. That’s going to take some clever thinking.
Tomorrow’s engineers? Unlikely.
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Some economists and others have argued smart machines are increasingly stealing our jobs. In fact, the opposite may be true.
It might become a great engineer, but will unlikely be a very good social worker.
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More STEM education isn’t a bad thing, but if we want to safeguard our jobs from being taken by machines, we need more emphasis on the humanities.
What’s your golf handicap old chap?
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Artificial intelligence is the future, but are computers ready to take a seat at the board?
It’s only a small step forward before drones like this one could operate entirely autonomously.
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The debate over whether lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) – often called ‘killer robots’ – should be banned continues, although it’s far from settled.
Could they be after your job?
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There are very few jobs that are can’t be done in principle by robots and artificial intelligence. What will you do when a robot takes your job?