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sciencefocus.com
It's time to accept AI will never think like a human
sciencefocus.com
3 min read · May 8th · It’s no point getting frustrated with AI when it doesn’t do what we expect it to. Instead, we should focus on the ways it can help and support people.
Reader View · Shared by 188, including Kate Darling, Stephan Woodtli, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Nige Willson
The Robot Report
Advanced cable management lets robots depaint airplanes
The Robot Report
4 min read · May 13th · Paint used on airplanes can contain dangerous chemicals, making removing the paint an ideal job for robots instead of humans.
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IEEE Spectrum
Robots and Humans Make Murals Together
IEEE Spectrum
May 11th · Robots are well known for having consistency and precision that humans tend to lack. Robots are also well known for not being especially creative—depending I suppose on your definition of “creative.” No, roboticists have seized an opportunity to match the strengths of humans and robots.
Shared by 12, including Erico Guizzo, Evan Ackerman
The Robot Report
Hello Robot to keynote Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum
The Robot Report
2 min read · May 9th · Charlie Kemp, the co-founder and CTO of Hello Robot, will be giving at keynote presentation at the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum.
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TechCrunch
Uber Eats pilots autonomous delivery with Serve Robotics, Motional
TechCrunch
3 min read · May 15th · Uber Eats is launching two autonomous delivery pilots in Los Angeles on Monday with Serve Robotics, a robotic sidewalk delivery startup, and Motional, an autonomous vehicle technology company. The new…
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sciencefocus.com
It's time to accept AI will never think like a human
sciencefocus.com
3 min read · May 8th · It’s no point getting frustrated with AI when it doesn’t do what we expect it to. Instead, we should focus on the ways it can help and support people.
Reader View · Shared by 188, including Kate Darling, Stephan Woodtli, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Nige Willson
The Verge
A visit to the human factory
The Verge
~15 min read · May 4th · Meet the robots that scare and excite in equal measure.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 136, including David Papandrew, Joanna J Bryson, ipfconline 🇺🇦, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, Ross Dawson
Fast Company
This robot’s paintings showed at the Venice Biennale, but are they actually art?
Fast Company
3 min read · May 12th · Art never exists in isolation. It always needs someone to give it ‘art’ status. That goes for work created by AIs, too.
TechCrunch
Uber Eats pilots autonomous delivery with Serve Robotics, Motional
TechCrunch
3 min read · May 15th · Uber Eats is launching two autonomous delivery pilots in Los Angeles on Monday with Serve Robotics, a robotic sidewalk delivery startup, and Motional, an autonomous vehicle technology company. The new…
Reader View · Shared by 22, including Brian Solis - briansolis.eth
WIRED
Farming Drives Toward ‘Precision Agriculture’ Technologies
WIRED
2 min read · May 14th · Although real-world data is scant, proponents say robotics and AI will soon revolutionize agriculture.
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GeekWire
The next big challenge for robots: Insights from the new director of CMU’s Robotics Institute
GeekWire
3 min read · Apr 30th · PITTSBURGH — A few months into his new job as the director of Carnegie Mellon University's storied Robotics Institute, Matthew Johnson-Roberson still finds it surreal. A robotics engineer and…
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IEEE Spectrum
Robots and Humans Make Murals Together
IEEE Spectrum
May 11th · Robots are well known for having consistency and precision that humans tend to lack. Robots are also well known for not being especially creative—depending I suppose on your definition of “creative.” No, roboticists have seized an opportunity to match the strengths of humans and robots.
Shared by 12, including Erico Guizzo, Evan Ackerman
The Robot Report
Advanced cable management lets robots depaint airplanes
The Robot Report
4 min read · May 13th · Paint used on airplanes can contain dangerous chemicals, making removing the paint an ideal job for robots instead of humans.
Reader View · Shared by 10, including Chris Isak
The Robot Report
Hello Robot to keynote Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum
The Robot Report
2 min read · May 9th · Charlie Kemp, the co-founder and CTO of Hello Robot, will be giving at keynote presentation at the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum.
Reader View · Shared by 5
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The Verge
How hard will the robots make us work?
The Verge
20+ min read · From 2020
Reader View · Shared by 476, including Paolo Pedercini, Nige Willson, Jeff Toister, Terence Mills, LARRY ELKAN, Ronald van Loon, Mathew Ingram, Joanna J Bryson, Alf Rehn, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Jon Keegan 🇺🇦, Scott Santens, Mike Tamir, PhD, Evan Selinger, Brian Solis - briansolis.eth, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Gerd Leonhard, John Hagel, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Brooks Rainwater
youtube.com
Do You Love Me?
youtube.com
2020-12-29 · Our whole crew got together to celebrate the start of what we hope will be a happier year: Happy New Year from all of us at Boston Dynamics. www.BostonDyna...
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The Star Halifax
35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here…
The Star Halifax
~13 min read · From 2018 · The famed science fiction writer was wrong about a world government, but pretty close on robots. On computers, though ...
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Harvard Business Review
The Future of Human Work Is Imagination, Creativity, and Strategy
Harvard Business Review
6 min read · From 2018 · Rethink the role of people in your organization.
Reader View · Shared by 344, including Birgit Schefer, Merkstatt, james, Glyn Britton, Victor Tolosa, Christian P. Stobbe, Katja Evertz, Josep M. Ganyet, david cant 👷♂️, Michelle Boisson, Jonathan Kogan, Rodrigo Prior, osioke.eth, Thomas Pleil, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Bernhard Huessy, Moritz Orendt, Lucas Foster, Gerd Leonhard, Nick Floro
Guardian Tech
AI ethicist Kate Darling: ‘Robots can be our partners’
Guardian Tech
5 min read · 2021-04-17 · The MIT researcher says that for humans to flourish we must move beyond thinking of robots as potential future competitors
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Futurism
Google's artificial intelligence built an AI that outperforms any made by humans
Futurism
3 min read · From 2017 · The applications range from autonomous cars to robots that can “see.”
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MIT Technology Review
If AI is going to help us in a crisis, we need a new kind of ethics
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · 2020-06-24 · Jess Whittlestone at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and her colleagues published a comment piece in Nature Machine Intelligence this week arguing…
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Vox
Robots were supposed to take our jobs. Instead, they’re making them worse.
Vox
~13 min read · 2021-07-02 · The robot apocalypse is already here, it just looks different than you thought.
Reader View · Shared by 257, including Nige Willson, John Hagel, Bob E. Hayes, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork
WIRED
Is the Brain a Useful Model for Artificial Intelligence?
WIRED
3 min read · From 2020 · Thinking machines think just like us—but only up to a point.
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