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DailyDirt: Terminators From The Future Are Already Here..?
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Maybe you’ve seen some ads featuring a former California governor fighting a younger, computer-generated version of himself lately. The Terminator franchise is almost guaranteed to be rebooted every few years, just as the real life technology that could create strong artificial intelligence is getting closer and closer. Hopefully, a $10 million donation from Elon Musk to the Future of Life Institute will help delay Judgment Day, but progress in artificial intelligence can’t be bargained with, it can’t feel pain or mercy, and it will stop at absolutely nothing….
- Google DeepMind is reading Daily Mail and CNN articles to learn how to understand grammar and the English language better. Forcing computers to read news articles all day is probably going to end up being the reason why AI hates humanity. [url]
- Chatbots are getting better and better at human-like conversation — and it can be very creepy. One Google-sponsored chatbot was asked, “What is immoral?” And it answered, “The fact that you have a child.” Yup. These machines aren’t going to try to extinguish the human race at all. Nope. Nope. Nope. Put your fingers in your ears and sing your favorite song now. [url]
- There’s a system called CodePhage that can detect software bugs and attempt to fix them without human intervention. And that’s how Skynet evolves to remove human error from its programming…. [url]
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Filed Under: ai, artificial intelligence, bugs, chatbots, codephage, deepmind, elon musk, future of life institute, judgment day, machine learning, software, terminator
Companies: google
DailyDirt: More Walking Robots
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Honda’s ASIMO and other walking robots don’t really look like much of match for catching up with people running away from them. But like zombies, robots never get tired and can just keep walking slowly towards you (as long as their batteries last, that is). Here are just a few examples of some robots that are starting to walk a bit more like us.
- Boston Dynamics has been working on a 6’2″ tall humanoid robot named Atlas. It can walk over rubble, and someday it will say, “I’ll be back” in an Austrian accent. [url]
- Researchers at the Humanoid Robotics Institute have designed a robotic leg with many of the same joints and features of a human leg. It’s actually not that easy to get a robot leg to have all the same range of motions as a real human leg. [url]
- Robot legs using a neural network to mimic human walking has created one of the first biologically-accurate models of the human gait. This research could help us understand how babies learn to walk and how people with spinal cord injuries might learn to walk again. [url]
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Filed Under: asimo, atlas, biomimicry, bipedal, gait, humanoid, locomotion, mabel, robots, terminator, walking
Companies: boston dynamics, darpa, honda, humanoid robotics institute