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#ShowUsYourAI – AAAI Video Competition – Deadline Oct 15
Sabine Hauert
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
Alan Winfield
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
Hallie Siegel
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
Sabine Hauert
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
Daniel Wilson
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?
Alan Winfield
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...
Signal processing technology to extract required information from image, sound, and biometric signals
DigInfo TV
26 May 2014
At Keio University, the Mitsukura Laboratory, in the Department of System Design Engineering, researches how to extract required information from biometric, image, audio signal data. To achieve this, ...
Why robots will not be smarter than humans by 2029
Alan Winfield
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
Colin Allen and Footnote
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
Colin Allen and Footnote
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?
Frank Tobe
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)
Mark Stephen Meadows
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
The Conversation
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)
Mark Stephen Meadows
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)
Mark Stephen Meadows
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)
Mark Stephen Meadows
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
Hallie Siegel
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)
Mark Stephen Meadows
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
Andra Keay
02 Nov 2012
An extended conversation with the legendary linguist...See on www.theatlantic.com...
How artificial intelligence is changing our lives
John Payne
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
Andra Keay
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...
