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Real-time, autonomous decisions are only some of the techniques AI can bring to the table.

Researchers have developed a novel AI method that uses AI to detect early signs of Alzheimer’s disease up to six years before it’s formally diagnosed.

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Artificial intelligence: the singularity as the road to dystopia

Pizza Hut has recently unveiled a full-size delivery truck with an automatic pizza-making factory in the truck bed, complete with computer-guided robotic arms.

Researchers have created a ‘modular’ robot which can analyze its environment and reconfigure itself to overcome obstacles and achieve tasks.

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Kai–Fu Lee who is a venture capitalist, technology executive, writer, and an artificial intelligence (AI) expert is speaking with Sebastian Thrun, founder of Udacity and Google’s self-driving cars program, about: ✅the realities of AI in business ✅which companies are leading AI development ✅how employees can adapt their skills for ever-changing technology.

Kai-Fu Lee is speaking with Sebastian Thrun, founder of Udacity and Google’s self-driving cars program, about:

One of the UK’s biggest sites, Metro, has run a major story on the Transhumanist Bill of Rights.

We meet the campaigners calling for the UN to adopt a Bill of Rights which lets ‘digital entities’ pursue life, liberty and happiness.

All this seems to indicate that the robotics industry isn’t going away anytime soon. If anything, the fact that investors are being more critical with their investments, paying more attention to market forces than to visionary-led promises means we’re entering a reality-driven age of investing in AI. The trouble is that this reality phase seems to be limited (so far) to the robotics industry. Tech companies in other corners of AI are still being wooed by investors with deep pockets and more patience than they have for robotics. Will the investments continue at the amounts and valuations currently supporting the industry? Or will these investors also be dragged down to earth by market and competitive realities? All that still remains to be seen. The hope is that the investment does continue, because after all, the quest for the intelligent machine has yet to be fully realized.

This is particularly perplexing since many AI companies are flush with cash and raising money at increasingly eye-watering levels and valuations. How could it be that these robotics firms, run and operated by some of the most celebrated people in the AI industry could be failing when seemingly less-compelling solutions such as process automation tools and facial recognition applications are raising billions of dollars? Is robotics really that hard or is there something else going on in the industry?

Here’s the thing: The risk from AI isn’t just a weird worry of Elon Musk.