Archive for the ‘robotics/AI’ category: Page 1910
Oct 31, 2018
New Theory of Intelligence May Disrupt AI and Neuroscience
Posted by Mike Ruban in categories: neuroscience, robotics/AI
Oct 30, 2018
Google Wants You to Build AI That Benefits Society
Posted by Michael Lance in category: robotics/AI
Oct 30, 2018
DeepMind’s Eerie Reimagination of the Animal Kingdom
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
If a recent project using Google’s DeepMind were a recipe, you would take a pair of AI systems, images of animals, and a whole lot of computing power. Mix it all together, and you’ d get a series of imagined animals dream ed up by one of the AIs. A look through the research paper about the project—or this open Google Folder of images it produced—will likely lead you to agree that the results are a mix of impressive and downright eerie.
But t he eerie factor doesn’t mean the project shouldn’t be considered a success and a step forward for future uses of AI.
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Oct 29, 2018
The Birth of Artificial Intelligence
Posted by Ankur Bargotra in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
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In the last video in this series we discussed the ancient origins of artificial intelligence progressing forward to the beginnings of the development of modern computing based artificial intelligence, encompassing the philosophies, theories and inventions of many talented individuals and groups.
Oct 29, 2018
Robots to Make Robots at One of the World’s Most Advanced Facilities
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: robotics/AI
A factory where robots make robots is surely the stuff of nightmares for those living in fear of the dreaded uprising. But putting apocalyptic horrors aside for a moment, ABB’s new site could be one of the most advanced facilities of its kind when it opens in 2020 with plans to make 100,000 robots a year.
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Oct 28, 2018
DARPA Wants to Build Computers With ‘Common Sense’
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: robotics/AI
Oct 28, 2018
An IBM AI Invented Perfumes That’ll Soon Sell in 4,000 Stores
Posted by Michael Lance in category: robotics/AI
Oct 28, 2018
Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: ethics, robotics/AI, transportation
Oct 28, 2018
Mars Colony Prize — Design the First Human Settlement on Mars
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, economics, food, robotics/AI, space travel
The Mars Society is holding a special contest called The Mars Colony Prize for designing the best plan for a Mars colony of 1000 people. There will be a prize of $10,000 for first place, $5,000 for second and $2500 for third. In addition, the best 20 papers will be published in a book — “Mars Colonies: Plans for Settling the Red Planet.”
The Mars colony should be self-supporting to the maximum extent possible – i.e. relying on a minimum mass of imports from Earth. In order to make all the things that people need on Earth takes a lot more than 1000 people, so you will need to augment both the amount and diversity of available labor power through the use of robots and artificial intelligence. You will need to be able to both produce essential bulk materials like food, fabrics, steel, glass, and plastics on Mars, and fabricate them into useful structures, so 3D printing and other advanced fabrication technologies will be essential. The goal is to have the colony be able to produce all the food, clothing, shelter, power, common consumer products, vehicles, and machines for 1000 people, with only the minimum number of key components, such as advanced electronics needing to be imported from Earth.
As noted, imports will always be necessary, so you will need to think of useful exports – of either material or intellectual products that the colony could produce and transport or transit back to Earth to pay for them. In the future, it can be expected that the cost of shipping goods from Earth to Mars will be $500/kg and the cost of shipping goods from Mars to Earth will be $200/kg. Under these assumptions, your job is to design an economy, cost it out, and show that after a certain initial investment in time and money, that it can become successful.
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