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Almost seven years ago, we learned that DARPA was investing millions of dollars in neuromorphic chips. That’s a fancy term for a computer chip that mimics a biological cortex—a brain chip. Today, researchers are getting closer. And of course, they’re putting those brain chips in drones. Responding to DARPA’s challenge, HRL Laboratories’ Center for Neural…
Nell Watson is an engineer, a futurist, and the founder and CEO of Poikos. As such, she knows a lot about the machines we use today, and the ones we’re planning for tomorrow. And she’s worried that the artificial intelligence of the near-future might decide the most benevolent thing to for mankind is to destroy…
Siri was a forward-thinking addition to iOS when it was introduced in 2011. Then Google and Microsoft implemented their own (better) contextually aware virtual assistants to help navigate you through your day. But there was always room for improvement, and the original creators of Siri think they take it even further. Today’s Wired profile is…
Applying for a U.S. government job? You’ll have to answer questions on drug use, criminal activity, and your loyalty to the U.S.A. And thanks to a government study, you might answer to an on-screen avatar, rather than a paper questionnaire. Researchers at the National Center for Credibility Advancement, the U.S. military’s “premiere educational center for…
Dr. James McLurkin has a swarm of robots. Individually, they’re not that smart, but a crateful of them behaves in some very complex ways, like the bees that inspired them. Gizmodo got to see the wee machines in action, and while they’re adorable, they represent some serious future bot capabilities. The quiet before the swarm:…
Meet Jibo. On track to exist next year, Jibo is being marketed as “the world’s first family robot.” The bulbous little guy can read to kids in the living room, recite recipes in the kitchen, take photos in the yard, and perform a handful of other simple tasks. Jibo is also a little bit creepy.…
Hong Kong’s metro puts others to shame: It’s one of the most profitable subways in the world. It’s on time 99.9 percent of the time. It’s always improving—and it’s controlled by some very clever artificial intelligence. An article in the latest issue of New Scientist introduces us to the algorithm that’s responsible for the incredible…
This is big. A computer program has successfully managed to fool a bunch of researchers into thinking that it was a 13-year-old boy named Eugene Goostman. In doing so, it has become the first in the world to have successfully passed the Turing Test. The test is named after computer pioneer Alan Turing. To pass…
Staring at the Mona Lisa provides a few minutes of enjoyment and contemplation, but were the famous portrait on the wall of your living room, you’d soon find yourself wishing she did more than just sit there and smirk. Maybe that’s what inspired the Artful Dodger to build this portrait chess set that lets you…
Humans are the worst—there’s no denying it. But isolating yourself from the rest of humanity doesn’t exactly come with the best track record either. Now, though, you can get the best of both worlds thanks to SociBot-Mini, a depth-sensing, mood-reading, friends’-identity-stealing disembodied robot torso. Created by Engineered Arts in the UK, SociBot-Mini may not be…
This week, the traffic on the Space subsite grew enough to attract our first spam-comment since I started as writer/editor. To commemorate the rise in traffic that attacked spammers, here’s a Euro-pop flashback praising artificial intelligence and spam-fighting. Boten Anna is a song by Basshunter about an anti-spam comment-moderator bot. The chorus translates as: I…
Relationships are hard. Especially when your partner inhabits a completely different realm of sentient existence that your frankly puny human mind could not be expected to fathom under any circumstance. The good news? You’ve got tech support. WARNING: CRAZY SPOILERS Sure, it’s fun to imagine the future will be a clean, beautiful, technologically advanced place…
It’s only a matter of time before things go the way of Skynet, and this new algorithm is a stepping stone along the way: it can learn to identify objects all by itself, with zero human help. Gulp. Created by Brigham Young University researchers, this new recognition algorithm churns through images, defining its own parameters…
It’s becoming painfully aware that those involved in robotics and artificial intelligence research aren’t quite thinking about the consequences of their so-called innovations. Like these researchers at ETH Zurich who’ve taught autonomous drones how to build and weave tensile wire structures. Or, to put it another way, DRONE WEBS OF DOOM. Sure, the artificial intelligence…
If you predicted the decline of deadtree books or the rise of services like Netflix streaming, say, 25 years ago, you’d be considered a damn good prognosticator. But what if you predicted those things back in 1964—before the internet even existed? Amazingly, a scientist from IBM did just that, long before any of these things…
Artificial Intelligence is the Holy Grail of computer science—and, for that matter, science fiction. But just how far have we come? In this video, Luciano Floridi—Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford—explores the current state of AI. The nub of his argument boils down to one big question: have we…
Getting out of bed is the worst. And anyone who says they don’t mind waking up can just leave now. Some of us are employing desperate measures to get going every morning, and a manipulative/verbally abusive alarm clock sounds like just the thing. The makers of the CARROT To-Do list wanted to bring their motivational…
When people talk about artificial intelligence, it’s tempting to think that it means computers can think (a little) like humans. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it turns out that’s not quite the case. This video from New Scientist explains how machine are designed to be capable of solving problems that humans can—just not quite in the same way.…
Computers are good at a lot of things. Thinking like a grown-up human being is not one of them. Not yet, at least. A team of researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago recently set out to discover just how advanced our artificially intelligent computers have become. Like they’d do with any food-eating human, they…
We poke fun at Siri and pretend to get scared by Humanoid robots and make our neck hair stand up straight by watching quadrocopters do amazing things but the truth is, artificial intelligence is still pretty dumb. But that’s going to change! The rise of artificial intelligence is happening and they’re learning a lot more…
