It’s been suggested that an advance party of robots will be needed if humans are ever to settle on other…
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Hanson Robotics, creators of the viral AI sensation Sophia, have unveiled plans to be mass-producing humanoid robots this year. Sophia…
Samsung’s gearing up for another phone launch Every time you feel that Samsung’s ‘just launched a phone’, it hits back with another phone. The retail lifecycle of Samsung devices seem to be speeding up, and it feels like we can’t keep track anymore. This year, we saw the company launch the S20-range, followed by the
Last month an AI system, one of many vying for the privilege, took on an American fighter pilot in a…
COVID-19 has altered nearly every aspect of American life, including the workplace. For millions of Americans, the kitchen or the living room…
In the US, tireless opposition to state use of facial recognition algorithms has recently won some victories. Some progressive cities have banned some uses…
Stop us if you’ve heard this one. Warner Bros. will soon use an AI system to “…enhance the greenlight process…
Like it or loathe it, the robot revolution is now well underway and the futures described by writers such as Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl and Philip K. Dick are fast turning from science fiction into science fact. But should robots have rights? And will humanity ever reach a point where human and machine are treated the same?
“To be dead,” wrote the 20th century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, “is to be a prey for the living.” Even Sartre, though, would have struggled to imagine casting James Dean in a movie 64 years after the actor’s death.
Robots used to be restricted to heavy lifting or fine detail work in factories. Now Boston Dynamics’ nimble four-legged robot, Spot, is available for companies to lease to carry out various real-world jobs, a sign of just how common interactions between humans and machines have become in recent years.