The Monolithic black rectangle on stage with luminous, bouncing blue dots at eye level was not Project Debater, IBM’s argumentative artificial intelligence. It was just something for an audience to look at while a voice—is it redundant to call an AI’s synthesized voice “disembodied”?—projected over the sound system of the …
Read More »Attacking Artificial Intelligence: How To Trick The Enemy « Breaking Defense
Maybe the Terminators should be afraid of us. ARLINGTON: With the US, Russia, and China all investing in Artificial Intelligence for their armed forces, people often worry the Terminator is going to come to life and kill them. But given the glaring vulnerabilities of AI, maybe the Terminator ought to …
Read More »An internet split between China and USA
“It’s (China) arguably ahead of U.S. in some areas behind in others, maybe neck and neck. But at the current trajectory, China will probably be ahead of U.S. in five years,” Lee said. “China has more data, more users, more usage per data. And there’s very pro-AI government policies. So …
Read More »Neural Networks Need a Cookbook. Here Are the Ingredients
When we design a skyscraper we expect it will perform to specification: that the tower will support so much weight and be able to withstand an earthquake of a certain strength. But with one of the most important technologies of the modern world, we’re effectively building blind. We play with …
Read More »Robot dog taught itself to get back up when people kick it over
Pushing it over is not enough to stop this robotAanybotics By Chelsea Whyte It gets knocked down, but it gets up again. This dog-like robot learns to explore all the ways to stand up after falling over – or being shoved, as they often are during testing – one of the …
Read More »This App Lets Kenya’s Farmers Access Satellite Data to Monitor Crops
Climate change is the most horrific threat our species has ever known: No matter how powerful you are or how much money you have, our transforming planet is a reckoning for every one of us. But there are degrees to this misery. If you’re perched in a Manhattan penthouse, the …
Read More »A Robot Teaches Itself to Play Jenga. But This Is No Game
Global thermonuclear war. The slight possibility that a massive asteroid could boop Earth. Jenga. These are a few of the things that give humans debilitating anxiety. Robots can’t solve any of these problems for us, but one machine can now brave the angst that is the crumbling tower of wooden …
Read More »A new AI training program helps robots own their ignorance
HONOLULU — A new training scheme could remind artificial intelligence programs that they aren’t know-it-alls. AI programs that run robots, self-driving cars and other autonomous machines often train in simulated environments before making real-world debuts (SN: 12/8/18, p. 14). But situations that an AI doesn’t encounter in virtual reality can …
Read More »‘Mind-Reading’ AI Turns Thoughts Into Spoken Words
By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Jan. 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) — In a breakthrough straight out of the world of science fiction, a team of researchers has used artificial intelligence (AI) to turn brain signals into computer-generated speech. The feat was accomplished with the assistance …
Read More »This robot learned not to mess with other people’s stuff
HONOLULU — The notion of ownership comes so easily to humans that even preschoolers have got it down. Robots, on the other hand, often struggle to grasp such abstract concepts. Now researchers have programmed a well-mannered robot that can learn who owns what, as well as what it’s allowed to …
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