Elon Musk’s Open Letter to the United Nations Warns Against Autonomous Killer Robots “Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in warfare. Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend,” the letter states, according to a press…
Category: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence
3 Rules For Robots: I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That
“Robotics and AI have become one of the most prominent technological trends of our century. The fast increase of their use and development brings new and difficult challenges to our society”, writes Delvaux. Therefore, the reasoning goes, “robots and artificial intelligence (AI) would increase their interaction with humans”, raising “legal and ethical issues which…
AI & Robots: How can we “future proof” students?
Sunday, April 24th at 8PM Central (6PM Pacific) Thanks to @Tom_Kilgore and the popular @TxEduChat for asking me to host another Twitter Chat! I’m excited to have some fun and explore the topic: AI & Robots: How can we “future proof” students? Artificial Intelligence and Robots are developing are a RAPID pace! With two new grandchildren,…
Next Hot Job In Silicon Valley: POETS
SAN FRANCISCO — Until recently, Robyn Ewing was a writer in Hollywood, developing TV scripts and pitching pilots to film studios. Now she’s applying her creative talents toward building the personality of a different type of character — a virtual assistant, animated by artifical intelligence, that interacts with sick patients. Ewing works with engineers on…
The Future of Employment Research Report from Oxford University
The Future of Employment Research Report from Oxford University In this report, Oxford University addresses the question: How susceptible are jobs to computerization? Doing so, they build on the existing literature in two ways. First, drawing upon recent advances in Machine Learning (ML) and Mobile Robotics (MR), they develop a novel methodology to categorize occupations according to…
Using Stories to Teach Human Values to Artificial Agents
The rapid pace of artificial intelligence (AI) has raised fears about whether robots could act unethically or soon choose to harm humans. Some are calling for bans on robotics research; others are calling for more research to understand how AI might be constrained. But how can robots learn ethical behavior if there is no “user…