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Dec 4, 2018

ANYbotics Autonomous Robot Can Inspect Offshore Converters

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This four-legged robot can run, climb stairs, and apparently inspect offshore converters.

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Dec 4, 2018

Nvidia AI Can Render Complete Urban Environments in Unreal Engine 4

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Interest in artificial neural networks has skyrocketed over the years as companies like Google and Facebook have invested heavily in machines that can think like humans. Today, an AI can recognize objects in photos or help generate realistic computer speech, but Nvidia has successfully built a neural network that can create an entire virtual world with the help of a game engine. The researchers speculate this “hybrid” approach could one day make AI-generated games a reality.

The system build by Nvidia engineers uses many of the same parts as other AI experiments, but they’re arranged in a slightly different way. To goal of the project was to create a simple driving simulator, but without using any humans to design the environment.

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Dec 4, 2018

Automation key to unravelling mysteries of the universe at CERN

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How CERN is using enterprise asset management from Infor and ramping up the automation of its IT services to plumb the depths of the universe.

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Dec 4, 2018

ESA team blasts Intel’s new AI chip with radiation at CERN

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An ESA-led team subjected Intel’s new Myriad 2 artificial intelligence chip to one of the most energetic radiation beams available on Earth. This test of its suitability to fly in space took place at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The AI chip is related in turn to an ESA-fostered family of integrated circuits.

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Dec 4, 2018

Alibaba already has a voice assistant way better than Google’s

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In May, Google made quite the splash when it unveiled Duplex, its eerily humanlike voice assistant capable of making restaurant reservations and salon appointments. It seemed to mark a new milestone in speech generation and natural-language understanding, and it pulled back the curtain on what the future of human-AI interaction might look like.

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Dec 3, 2018

Research explores the ethical implications of creating sentient and self-aware sexbots

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So far, robots have primarily been developed to fulfill utilitarian purposes, assisting humans or serving as tools to facilitate the completion of particular tasks. As robots become more human-like, however, this could pose significant challenges, particularly for robots built to engage with humans socially.

Humans have used sex dolls as inanimate objects for sexual pleasure throughout history. Animated sex robots, social robots created to meet humans’ needs for sex and affection, offer more. Due to recent developments in robotics and AI, sex robots are now becoming more advanced and human-like. Purchasers can have them customised both in appearance and in how they speak and behave to simulate intimacy, warmth and emotion.

Currently, sex robots are inanimate things, able to simulate but not engage in mutual intimacies. In the future, however, technological advances might allow researchers to manufacture sentient, self-aware sex robots with feelings, or sexbots. The implications of the availability of sexbots as customisable perfect partners for with humans are potentially vast.

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Dec 3, 2018

Thousands of Unstudied Plants May Be at Risk of Extinction

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Plants often get short shrift in conservation circles, but machine learning could help botanists save tens of thousands of species.

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Dec 3, 2018

Nvidia has created the first video game demo using AI-generated graphics

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A first for video games.

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Dec 2, 2018

Can Artificial Intelligence Make Doctors Better?

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning: the next revolution in medicine and cancer research.

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Dec 2, 2018

Cafe in Japan Hires Paralyzed People to Control Robot Servers

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The OriHime-D can also be used by people involved in childcare, nursing care or other activities that prevent them from leaving home or a certain location.


A cafe with an all-robot staff controlled by paralyzed people has opened in Tokyo.

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