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    Should we fear artificial intelligence? | BBC
      05 Feb 2015
    Billions of dollars are pouring into the latest investor craze: artificial intelligence. But serious scientists like Stephen Hawking have warned that full AI could spell the end of the human race. How...

    A new regulatory agency for autonomous technology is needed first | Ryan Calo via New York Times
      29 Jan 2015
    When Congress asked the Department of Transportation to determine whether a software glitch caused Toyotas to suddenly accelerate, the agency had to ask NASA. Just imagine: the nation’s top scientis...

    AAAI Video Competition winners
      29 Jan 2015
    A large crowd of AAAI-15 goers, one of the main conferences in Artificial Intelligence, gathered at the AAAI Video Competition Award Ceremony today in Austin, Texas. The competition aims to spread the...

    Talking Machines: Machine learning and magical thinking, with Ilya Sutskever
      15 Jan 2015
    Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...

    Elon Musk donates $10M to keep AI beneficial | The Future of Life Institute
      15 Jan 2015
    Elon Musk, creator of Tesla and SpaceX, has decided to donate $10M to the Future of Life Institute to run a global research program aimed at keeping AI beneficial to humanity. There is now a broad ...

    Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat
      11 Nov 2014
    Recently there has been a spate of articles in the mainstream press, and a spate of high profile people who are in tech but not AI, speculating about the dangers of malevolent AI being developed, and ...

    ABB invests in AI startup Vicarious
      11 Nov 2014
    ABB Technology Ventures, the VC arm of ABB, joins a long list of notables investing in artificial intelligence startup Vicarious Systems that include Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Mu...

    “Chappie” movie to explore human reaction to AI, machine learning
      04 Nov 2014
    A new action/sci-fi thriller by Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) is due in theatres March 6, 2015. Starring Sharlto Copley, Hugh Jackman, Dev Patel, and Sigourney Weaver, Chappie follows an exper...

    Google adds to DeepMind, acquiring 2 UK startups and partnering with Oxford U
      27 Oct 2014
    In January, 2014, Google acquired London-based DeepMind Technologies for $643 million. Now it is adding to that purchase with two more companies, ten new hires and a substantial contribution to Oxford...

    #ShowUsYourAI – AAAI Video Competition – Deadline Oct 15
      26 Sep 2014
    Submit your video to the AAAI Video Competition for a chance to win one of the several Shakey Awards. This year we'll be voting for the People's Choice Award right here on Robohub. The submission dead...

    We should not be privileging the singularity hypothesis | Alan Winfield via The Guardian
      03 Sep 2014
    By worrying unnecessarily [about the Singularity hypothesis] I think we’re falling into a trap: the fallacy of privileging the hypothesis. And – perhaps worse – taking our eyes off other risks ...

    Artificial intelligence will not turn into a Frankenstein’s monster | Alan Winfield via The Guardian
      12 Aug 2014
    The doomsayers believe that humanity will be overwhelmed by creating machines that – like Terminator's Skynet – become ever-more clever and reach a singularity. They're wrong. Read more by Alan W...

    Watch the videos from the AI Video Competition
      01 Aug 2014
    A large crowd of experts in artificial intelligence gathered around the AAAI Video Competition Award Ceremony before catching their flights, or enjoying one last night in Québec City. The competition...

    Mind of life: An excerpt from Daniel Wilson’s new sci-fi novel, Robogenesis
      29 Jul 2014
    This excerpt is from my novel Robogenesis, in which humankind is trying to put together the pieces of a shattered civilization after a war between men and machines. In the aftermath of the robopocalyp...

    What would be the energy cost of artificially evolving human-equivalent AI?
      28 Jul 2014
    Want to create human-equivalent AI? Well, broadly speaking, there are three approaches open to you: design it, reverse-engineer it or evolve it. The third of these - artificial evolution - is attrac...

    Why robots will not be smarter than humans by 2029
      07 Mar 2014
    Statue of Alan Turing. Photo credit: Neil Crosby In the last few days we've seen a spate of headlines like 2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers, all occasioned by ...

    From disembodied bytes to robots that think and act like humans
    and   25 Feb 2014
    When IBM’s Watson supercomputer triumphed over two top Jeopardy champions in February 2011, the media buzzed with talk of artificial intelligence (AI), just as it had fourteen years earlier wh...

    Why intelligence requires both body and brain
    and   18 Feb 2014
    Western philosophy has traditionally separated mind from matter and brain from body. In recent years, however, cognitive scientists have turned the assumption on its head that we can study the mind b...

    What do Google, Amazon, IBM, Apple, Microsoft and all the airlines and car companies want?
      03 Feb 2014
    They want to communicate more accurately, resolve issues faster and with higher levels of satisfaction than at present. They also want to enable more complex communication. And they want to do it amia...

    Two ears, one mouth (or, Somatic analytics, and a talk with Dr. Skip Rizzo)
      20 Nov 2013
    This article returns to the thread of the last few months by looking at how robots can measure our emotions and body language. My aunt, a Tennessee tobacco grower, used to remind me that God gave m...

    The truth is no stranger than fiction when it comes to robots
      21 Aug 2013
    Killer robots, a problem as old as voodoo. Source: x-ray delta one. By Kathleen Richardson, University College London Robots represent the cutting edge in science. For decades we have been promis...

    In-corporating body language into NLP (or, More notes on the design of automated body language)
      07 Aug 2013
    This article discusses how body language is a part of natural language, personality, and NLP design. The article covers various methods for approaching this problem and makes recommendations for the r...

    My robot is smelling my dirty laundry (or, Notes on privacy, PRISM, and home service robotics)
      03 Jul 2013
    This article considers privacy in robotic systems (such as personal service robotics) as being of greater importance than privacy in telecommunications (such as Internet). We will return to our regula...

    “A Paro walks into a club…” (or, Notes on the design of automated body language)
      05 Jun 2013
    This article discusses personality design and how proper natural language interface design includes body language.  The article is about the design of hearts and minds for robots. It argues that psyc...

    The man behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the new AI | WIRED UK
      08 May 2013
    In tandem with other researchers at Google, Ng is building one of the most ambitious artificial-intelligence systems to date, the so-called Google Brain. Ng leads a new field of computer science res...

    The uncanny valet (or, Notes on the design of robot psychology)
      04 May 2013
    This article outlines the problems of today's phone and online help systems and offers solutions to conversational systems of tomorrow. The article is about the design of hearts and minds for robots, ...

    Noam Chomsky on where Artificial Intelligence went wrong
      02 Nov 2012
    An extended conversation with the legendary linguist...See on www.theatlantic.com...

    How artificial intelligence is changing our lives
      06 Oct 2012
    “From smart phones that act as personal concierges to self-parking cars to medical robots, the artificial intelligence revolution is here. So where do humans fit in?” By Gregory M. Lamb in...

    Future Talk 32-1, Artificial Intelligence
      09 Jul 2012
    Interview with Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, on progress being made in artificial intelligence. Self driving cars are discussed. See on www.youtube.com...

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