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2007-11-25 12:38:18     iRobot Corporation: About ConnectR

http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=338

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 ...
... ted to your family and frie

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2012-11-26 18:40:13     Brain-like chip outstrips normal computers - tech - 22 November 2012 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/...tstrips-normal-computers.html

Attempts to simulate the brain usually involve programmi... behave like groups of neurons. A new "neuromorphic" desi... recreate the brain's hardware, using analogue components...
The Spikey chip contains 400 "neurons", or printed circu ...
Spikey also

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2010-06-18 09:43:28     Magazine Preview - Smarter Than You Think - I.B.M.'s Supercomputer to Challenge 'Jeopardy!' Champions - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/m.../20Computer-t.html?...

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

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2011-05-12 10:09:51     Google Lobbies Nevada To Allow Self-Driving Cars - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/science/11drive.html?...

Google, a pioneer of self-driving cars, is quietly lobby... that would make Nevada the first state where they could ... on public roads.

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2012-08-19 19:00:09     Rise of the elder care robot

http://www.smh.com.au/...lder-care-robot-20120819-24g7w.html

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

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2007-01-04 07:52:23     Particle Swarm Optimization

http://www.swarmintelligence.org/

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

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2014-05-27 21:19:54     Microsoft Cortana EULA contains the Greatest Disclaimer of ALL TIME • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/...test_disclaimer_of_all_time/

"Like a real-world personal assistant, sometimes Cortana... inaccurate conclusion about what is important to you, (i... information that accurately reflects you but that you ar... sharing with others, or (iii) remember some information ... no longer t

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2010-01-06 09:38:31     International Robot Exhibition 2009

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/g.../article6931953.ece?...

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 ...

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2012-07-16 09:10:10     Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/robotic-bee/

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2012-05-29 14:24:26     xkcd: Tic-Tac-Toe

http://xkcd.com/832/

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2023-12-06 15:28:32     English High Court Decision: AI Inventions are Patentable, David Knight

https://briefings.brownrudnick.com/...entions-are-patentable

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 ...

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2017-01-09 21:58:36     The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain

https://hbr.org/.../the-humans-working-behind-the-ai-curtain

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.

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2016-02-07 13:27:06    

https://medium.com/swlh/no-ui-is-the-new-ui-ab3f7ecec6b3#...

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

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2022-09-29 13:31:33     An Interactive Introduction to Attractor Landscapes

https://ncase.me/attractors/

A peaceful movement fights against violence and oppressi... nothing much changes. Then, everything changes.
Why do many complex systems – cultures, environments, ...
There's a tool that can help us understand this: attract ...

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2024-01-18 08:24:37    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67993056

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 ...

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2024-01-05 06:23:47    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67872693

Harry Potter, Elon Musk, Beyoncé, Super Mario and Vladimir Putin.

These are just some of the millions of artificial intelligence (AI) personas you can talk to on Character.ai - a popular platform where anyone can create chatbots based on ...

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2022-07-17 13:23:23     Chinese courts allow AI to make rulings, charge people and carry out punishments | Daily Mail Online

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/...people-carry-punishments.html

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2016-12-04 12:39:44     Google's DeepMind AI gives robots the ability to dream - ExtremeTech

https://www.extremetech.com/...ai-gives-robots-ability-dream

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,

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2024-02-10 13:31:40     Sketch of The Analytical Engine

https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html

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

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2022-01-09 13:56:29     Israel used world's first AI-guided combat drone swarm in Gaza attacks | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/...drone-swarm-in-gaza-attacks/

During operations in Gaza in mid-May, the Israel Defense... a swarm of small drones to locate, identify and attack H... This is thought to be the first time a drone swarm has b...

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2020-06-27 10:06:19    

https://www.nytimes.com/20.../facial-recognition-arrest.html

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...

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2018-06-17 20:29:33     Rise of the machines: has technology evolved beyond our control? | Books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...olved-beyond-our-control-?...

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

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2024-03-13 07:16:06     Workplace AI, robots and trackers are bad for quality of life, study finds | Business | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ty-of-life-institute-for-work

“We found that quality of life improved as the frequency of interaction with ICTs increased, whereas quality of life deteriorated as frequency of interaction with newer workplace technologies rose,” the report said.

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2023-05-08 09:49:26     AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...nes-hallucinating-naomi-klein

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

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2024-01-17 07:30:26     The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same | | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ry-coffee-shop-looks-the-same

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...

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2017-04-15 07:24:44     AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals | Technology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...t-biases-research-reveals?...

An artificial intelligence tool that has revolutionised ... computers to interpret everyday language has been shown ... gender and racial biases.
The findings raise the spectre of existing social inequa ...

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2022-06-13 06:38:34     Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient | Google | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine

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

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2023-05-05 07:32:38     US aims to tackle risk of uncontrolled race to develop AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ficial-intelligence-arms-race

“At this point, Big Tech companies need to be saved fr... companies and their top AI developers are well aware of ... generative AI. But they are in a competitive arms race a... themselves unable to slow down,”

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2024-03-07 22:39:17     AI likely to increase energy use and accelerate climate misinformation – report | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...-energy-disinformation-report

Claims that artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis are misguided, with the technology instead likely cause rising energy use and turbocharge the spread of climate disinformation, a coalition of environmental groups has w...

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2023-12-09 08:56:46     EU agrees ‘historic’ deal with world’s first laws to regulate AI | European Union | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...lds-first-laws-to-regulate-ai

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.

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