Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# sex
Did a real robot brothel quietly open in Barcelona? Well, that depends on your definition of robot...
# tech
Trump administration officials tells workers already or currently being replaced by robots it won't happen for another 50 to 100 years.
# tech
If you're going to fight trolls, racists, and bigots with AI, you're going to need a much more comprehensive approach than a few neural networks...
# tech
Programmer Maciej Ceglowski refuses to fall for the Gospel of the Nerd Rapture and offers a novel idea for giving people a more realistic idea of what AI really is.
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We are not running out of jobs humans can do as computers take on more and more responsibilities. We're just choosing not to create new jobs and educate workers.
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George Dvorsky decided to try some myth-busting about the future of AI and the nature of the technology. The end result needs a lot of myth-busting of its own...
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Let's not surgarcoat this. We will build autonomous killer robots because we have every incentive to. So let's make sure we get them right.
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An AI far smarter than any human may want to have no contact with us. Unfortunately, it won't have a choice in the matter.
# science
When thinking about AI, we often focus on human analogs. But what if we consider a non-human intelligence for a change?
# tech
Neither Ray Kurzweil or Jaron Lanier seem to lack imagination as to what jobs computers could do. So why are they so uncreative when it comes to coming up with ideas for humans working alongside AI?