Like most disruption, it started with a simple idea. Kit Kevin Parker, PhD, a Harvard professor researching how to build a human heart, saw his daughter entranced by watching stingrays at the New England Aquarium in Boston. He wondered if he could engineer a muscle that could move in the same sinuous, undulating fashion. The…
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What will happen when robots become smarter than humans
Everything is going to change. World View The term ‘Singularity’ was first used in the technological sense (as opposed to its definition within physics) by Hungarian American mathematician John von Neumann. In 1958, he said “ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential…
This AI Beats Colonel In Aerial Combat Simulations
Every time artificial intelligence (AI) beats a human in something, the world cries “Skynet” and assumes the robot takeover is about to happen. Whereas we definitely don’t have to worryabout that happening anytime soon, a new AI has wandered onto the stage and, for once, aTerminator film series-inspired machine revolution appears to be somewhat possible….
Why Elon Musk Is Wrong About AI
Will AI evolve to become an existential threat to humanity? Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and physicist Stephen Hawking seem to think so. They are amongst a number of luminaries who see intelligent machines as humanity’s way of committing collective suicide. But how right are they? Should we heed to their alarmist views? Is there anything…
Can We Create Artificial Gravity?
Yes, we can. We can totally create the artificial gravity seen in movies like2001: A Space Odyssey or Elysium, it’ll just cost a lot of freaking money and require a lot of freaking resources. Real Engineering explains how centrifugal force works as artificial gravity and estimates (using math cribbed from how much the ISS costs)…
Startup builds AI to automate all accounting
Smacc, which uses AI to automate accounting, has secured a $3.5 million Series A round from Cherry Ventures, Rocket Internet, Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures, Grazia Equity and business angels. Smacc offers small and medium-sized enterprises a platform to digitize and automate accounting and financial processes. The founding trio Uli Erxleben, Janosch Novak and Stefan Korsch…
Code Your Own Watson AI Bot In 50 Lines Of Code
Bots are the new apps and the bot store is the new app store. Combined with AI, bots are becoming more powerful each day and learning to do new things. In this article, I’ll tell you how to use IBM Watson API to create a Telegram speech-to-text bot in 50 lines of code. Bots are…
Google has a secret plan to take over public parking and transit
A secret subsidy of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is planning to completely revolutionize public parking and transportation, according to a new report that shines a light on the ambitious initiative. The mysterious company is Sidewalk Labs, and has begun offering cities its high-tech services, which claim to make it easier to drive and park by creating…
Boston Dynamics made a giraffe robot
[wpdevart_youtube]tf7IEVTDjng[/wpdevart_youtube] Boston Dynamics — the (for now) Alphabet-owned company behind BigDog and other impressive machines — has just unveiled its latest robot: SpotMini, an all-electric, smaller version of its Spot robot. One notable change: the ‘bot can now be equipped with an elongated neck, which it shows off in a demonstration by helpfully picking up a glass…
A huge team of Apple veterans is now making smart accessories for your car
Pearl is trying to upgrade older automobiles with connected hardware For a while now there have been rumors that Apple is working on a car. The company still hasn’t publicly acknowledged this project, but a startup coming out of stealth today provides a nice taste of how a car might look and feel if it…
Facebook CEO Predicts Computers Will Soon Be Able to Read Our Minds
Tech giant Mark Zuckerberg is claiming that social media platforms will soon be able to read users minds and beam their emotions straight onto the internet. As internet users seem less and less concerned with their privacy, and willing to share the most intimate details of their lives on the internet, his ideas may not be far fetched. While…
Here’s what cities will look like in 30 years
Ian Pearson, a futurologist with an 85% accuracy track record, helped put together a report on what we can expect in the year 2045. Pearson compiled the report with Hewden, a construction equipment rental company, that shows “what can we expect to see over the next 30 years in the construction industry.” With advents in fields…