As with most things of a robotic nature, it seems that Japan and Korea are the places to watch for any significant advancements – particularly when concerned with consumer products. The latest announcement coming out of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology continues this trend with their latest demo of a pair of domestic robots that are capable of autonomous movement and activity within the household.
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Tag Archive: artificial intelligence
10 sectors to watch over the next decade (part 3)
Now that we’re onto part three, I wanted to bring up two more sectors that we’ve focused quite a lot on here at Future Conscience. They are sectors that the first decade of the 21st century really proved the validity of, and solidified both of them as central to our collective vision of future society.
Singularity Summit 2009 videos up on Vimeo
Those of you who have visited us before may have remembered that I mentioned that Singularity Summit which took place at the beginning of October. I’ve just seen that the video of the presentations has been put up on Vimeo and I definitely recommend that you go and check them out.
AAAI to report on the danger of artificial intelligence
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) over in California have collected together a group experts to formulate a report on the dangers of ’smart robots’. It is an exercise in scenario visualisation that will bring a realistic and informed eye onto the impact of truly independent and intelligent technology.
Friday Link Roundup: Artificial Intelligence
Something I’ve decided to begin today, and which will continue each Friday, is a weekly roundup of useful or interesting links. So, without further ado, let’s take a look at five interesting articles from the past week that cover the field of artificial intelligence.
Singularity Summit 2009 begins tomorrow
Tomorrow (October 3rd) marks the beginning of the annual Singularity Summit held by the Singularity Institute in New York. The summit brings together many of the leading thinkers in the field of singularity philosophy.
Cute robots, social learning and Georgia Tech
Simon Robot is intended to be a robot focused on social learning and development through demonstration, but what I want to focus on here is the interesting development of human empathy relationships with robots. In particular, the fact that Simon Robot has been created to seemingly specifically cause us to want to pinch its cheeks and fawn all over how cute it looks.
Autonomous systems and the ethical issues of sentient technology
The Royal Academy of Engineering has released a report that considers some of the possible issues that might arise from an ever increasing presence of autonomous systems within our society. Entitled Autonomous Systems: Social, Legal and Ethical Issues the short paper marks a call for public discussion surrounding emerging technologies.
Would Asimov want us to teach robots to lie?
The recent experiments conducted by the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland have shown that the robot intelligence that they created eventually taught themselves to lie in order to bring about a more advantageous position compared to their rivals.
