Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

If you were expecting some kind warning when computers f... than us, then think again.
There will be no soothing HAL 9000-type voice informing ...
In reality, our electronic overlords are already taking ...
Their weapon of choice - the algorithm.

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Add this to the list of terrifying robots we hope to nev ...

In spite of the stability and popularity of the Self-Org... at least two limitations have to be noted, which are rel... hand, to the static architecture of this model, as well ... hand, to the limited capabilities for the representation...
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iRobot® ConnectR™ Virtual Visiting Robot
Stay close to those you love – no matter where you are!
Don’t miss out on special moments at home even when yo ...
* Participate in family moments even though you're w ...
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It has happened to most people waiting for a specific bus in a busy city - you stand around for ages only for three to turn up at once.
This phenomenon is known as "bus bunching", and it can be annoying.
To try to alleviate the problem, UK ...

It's no secret to that our society is getting older. Mor...
The solution, the robotics industry hopes, is technology ...
Japanese Nursebots can lift up elderly patients and brin ...
In recent years, Japanese tech giant Panasonic has creat ...
In the next

Japan’s robot revolution moves from factory to the home
The world’s leader in robotic technology is creating m ...
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A Japanese robot demonstrates its ability to flip pancak ...
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Jess is a rule engine and scripting environment written ... Java language by Ernest Friedman-Hill at Sandia National... Livermore, CA. Using Jess, you can build Java software t... capacity to "reason" using knowledge you supply in the f... rules. Jess

Last spring, a young biologist tried to buy a copy of a ... out-of-print reference work, Peter Lawrence’s The Maki... offered 15 used copies at reasonable prices – and two ... cheapest of which was $1,730,045.91, plus $3.99 shipping.
Michael Eisen,

Let ALICE manage your building lobby by greeting vis...
Click here to see and learn more about how ALICE can ...
ALICE presents visitors with a touch screen list of ...
Click here for a full list of features and benefits.
... ick here to

Making sense of data is one of the great challenges of t... we live in. While it is becoming easier to collect and s... data, from personal medical data, to scientific data, to... commercial data, there are relatively few people trained... and machine

Mr. Williams knew that he had not committed the crime in question. What he could not have known, as he sat in the interrogation room, is that his case may be the first known account of an American being wrongfully arrested based on a flawed...

My theory was that all the physical places interconnected by apps had a way of resembling one another. In the case of the cafes, the growth of Instagram gave international cafe owners and baristas a way to follow one another in real time an...

No UI is the New UI
On the rise of UI-less apps and why you should
care about them as a designer.

November 25, 2009
International Robot Exhibition 2009
The Tokyo International Robot Exhibition is normally a s ...
Dai Kurokawa/EPA
An employee of UK robot maker Shadow Robot Company weari ...

or the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been dev... expect will be the world’s most advanced “question a... machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday... — “natural language,” as computer scientists call ...
With Watson

Our team learned from two years of researching the world... where content moderation is a steady stream of gig work,... practices of both the largest and the smallest companies... involve literally thousands of decisions about what cont... delete.

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a population based ...
PSO shares many similarities with evolutionary computati ...
Each particle keeps track of its coordinates in the prob ...
The particle swarm optimization concept consists of, at ...
... specifi

Rather than pointlessly rehearsing entire sections of th... little bearing on the player’s overall score, “dream... to highlight certain sections of the game that are espec... and repeat them ad nauseam until expertise is achieved. ... technique,

Remember M3-neony and M3-synchy, two humanoid robots fro...
Similar to neony and synchy, the purpose of the new robo ...
Weighing 27kg, M3-Kindy (“Kind” as in “Kindergarte ...
Noby (“Noby” as in “New-born Baby), on the other h ...
Noby is sup

Technology is starting to behave in intelligent and unpr... even its creators don’t understand. As machines increa... events, how can we regain control?

the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

the court held that the exclusion was not invoked — s... not “a program for a computer … as such.” The UKIP... issued guidance (available here) confirming that:
“Patent examiners should not object to inventions invo ...

The engineer compiled a transcript of the conversations,... point he asks the AI system what it is afraid of.

The more our media channels are flooded with deep fakes ... various kinds, the more we have the feeling of sinking i... quicksand.

The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’... to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opp... The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of ...
The glitch?
They obey the law all the time, as in, without exception ...

The Turk, engraving from 1789
Continue reading the main story
Crowd-sourcing comets (LJ)
Mary queen of maths (Lisa Jardine)
... rate hoax had its own sense of genius, says Adam Gopnik.

The world’s first comprehensive laws to regulate artif... have been agreed in a landmark deal after a marathon 37-... between the European Parliament and EU member states.

There was no need for Sherlock. The killer didn't flee t... his ground over the lifeless body of his victim, his han... the bloody weapon, his face betraying no emotion.
At the feet of the mechanised figure of a person - which ...

This tutorial gives a broad view of modern approaches fo... machine learning and data mining methods on parallel/dis... platforms. Demand for scaling up machine learning is tas... some tasks it is driven by the enormous dataset sizes, f...
The tutoria