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Mar 18, 2016
Why Teaching Robots to do Easy Stuff is Still Hard | Retro Report
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: robotics/AI
Mar 18, 2016
X-Men: Apocalypse — Newest Official Trailer | 20th Century FOX
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: media & arts
“Only the Strong Will Survive”
Mar 18, 2016
South Korea trumpets $860-million AI fund after AlphaGo ‘shock’
Posted by Amnon H. Eden in categories: government, robotics/AI
Nature News reports:
“Scrambling to respond to the success of Google DeepMind’s world-beating Go program AlphaGo, South Korea announced on 17 March that it would invest $863 million (1 trillion won) in artificial-intelligence (AI) research over the next five years [towards] founding of a high-profile, public–private research centre with participation from several Korean conglomerates, including Samsung, LG Electronics and Hyundai Motor, as well as the technology firm Naver, based near Seoul.”
President Geun-Hye emphasized that “artificial intelligence can be a blessing for human society” and called it “the fourth industrial revolution”
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Mar 18, 2016
The Future of Business: Book Review
Posted by José Cordeiro in categories: business, futurism
The Future of Business: Critical Insights into a Rapidly Changing World from 60 Future Thinkers by Rohit Talwar (editor)
Book review by José Luis Cordeiro
The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.
William Gibson
Mar 18, 2016
Baidu to Test Drive Autonomous Cars in the U.S
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: government, robotics/AI, transportation
Baidu Inc. will soon start testing autonomous cars in the U.S., part of the Chinese tech giant’s effort to introduce a commercially viable model by 2018.
The move, disclosed by Baidu’s chief scientist Andrew Ng in an interview late Tuesday, is a significant step for the company, which is trying to get ahead in the race to build autonomous cars and is now calling on the resources of its Silicon Valley tech center to advance the effort. At the same time, Baidu is advocating for better coordination with the U.S. government, which the company says is necessary to get self-driving cars on the road.
Central to the push is Mr. Ng, an artificial-intelligence scientist who conducted groundbreaking research at Stanford University and at Alphabet Inc.’s Google. He’s also a co-founder of online-learning company Coursera Inc.
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Mar 18, 2016
Domino’s has built an autonomous pizza delivery robot
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: military, robotics/AI
Cute, but i think mainly a publicity stunt. You couldnt trust that thing to be by itself unless it was a really safe small town or nice suburb.
For a pizza chain, Domino’s actually has a pretty rich history of innovation. It’s embraced social media, created a one-click Easy Order button and even built a delivery car that has its own pizza oven. Now it’s looking at robots. More specifically: delivery robots. What you see here is DRU (Domino’s Robotic Unit), an autonomous delivery vehicle built in collaboration with Australian technology startup Marathon Targets that Domino’s says is the first of its kind. It’s filled with thousands of dollars worth of military robotics tech, but its covert mission has been to deliver fresh pizza to the residents of Queensland.
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Mar 18, 2016
Antimatter to ion drives: NASA’s plans for deep space propulsion
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
Mar 18, 2016
Army Sees Lasers, Hoverbikes and Nano Drones in Future Force
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: drones, futurism
Mar 18, 2016
New Dark Matter Theory Weighs Superheavy Particle
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: particle physics, space
Dark matter could be made of particles that each weigh almost as much as a human cell and are nearly dense enough to become miniature black holes, new research suggests.
While dark matter is thought to make up five-sixths of all matter in the universe, scientists don’t know what this strange stuff is made of. True to its name, dark matter is invisible — it does not emit, reflect or even block light. As a result, dark matter can currently be studied only through its gravitational effects on normal matter. The nature of dark matter is currently one of the greatest mysteries in science.
If dark matter is made of such superheavy particles, astronomers could detect evidence of them in the afterglow of the Big Bang, the authors of a new research study said. [Dark Matter Explained (Infographic)].
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