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“I’m concerned that the people most involved with AI are primarily technologists. In the same way as Mark Zuckerberg defines privacy, identity, and human rights in a totally different way than I do, I’m concerned that the proponents of AI are considering a different definition of benevolence.”
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“Nine-fifteen, sang the clock, time to clean. Out of warrens in the wall, tiny robot mice darted. The rooms were acrawl with the small cleaning animals, all rubber and metal. They thudded against chairs, whirling their mustached runners, kneading the rug nap, sucking gently at hidden dust. Then, like mysterious invaders, they popped into their burrows. Their pink electric eyes faded. The house was clean.”
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“I don’t like [the Turing Test] that much, in part because I don’t care about the philosophy angle. I want to build something useful. We already know how to make humans; I made two of them.”
— Peter Norvig - Google’s go-to AI guy sees phones getting much smarter
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Larry the African Grey Parrot dials an imaginary phone number, rambles a little, then starts laughing.
Wikipedia says: “Dr. Irene Pepperberg’s research with captive African greys, most notably with a bird named Alex, has scientifically demonstrated that they possess the ability to associate simple human words with meanings, and to intelligently apply the abstract concepts of shape, colour, number, zero-sense, etc. According to Pepperberg and other ornithologists[who?], they perform many cognitive tasks at the level of dolphins, chimpanzees, and even a human toddler.”
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“And even if we don’t care about them having legal rights, there’s still good reason to treat AIs with respect. Think about the pets of neglectful owners, or the lovers who have never stayed with someone longer than a month; are they the pets or lovers you would choose? Think about the kind of people that bad parenting produces; are those the people you want to have as your friends or your employees? No matter what roles we assign AIs, I suspect they will do a better job if, at some point during their development, there were people who cared about them.”
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Swarmanoid is a heterogeneous robot swarm in which different groups of robots have different capabilities: some robots are specialized in manipulating objects and climbing, some in moving on the ground and transporting objects, and some in flying and observing the environment from above.
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High frequency trading. One second presented in one minute.
(Source: new-aesthetic)
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In Killer K.I.T.T (1986) Marco Berio, a former employee of F.L.A.G, uses his knowledge of K.I.T.T. to override it’s CPU and turn it against his owner, Michael Knight.
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Using collaborative filtering, a branch of artificial intelligence frequently used by online retailers, the Smart Pop-Up Wine Shop by Gonzalo Garcia-Perate recommends the most popular wines as well as favoured purchase combinations by learning from its customers. Lights integrated in the shop’s furniture indicate the popularity of each wine using a colour scale. Additionally visitors can scan each bottle to see what others bought in combination with it, creating a real world version of the famous “users who bought this also bought” system popularised by Amazon.
