Rise of the Machines

Elon Musk's plan to replicate the human brain with AI just received $1bn from Microsoft 'The creation of AGI will be the most important technological development in human history,' says OpenAI boss

Forget drones, Amazon’s real robot innovation is in the warehouse Amazon has developed two new robots that move products around its warehouses.Worker bots: Amazon unveiled the robots—Pegasus and Xanthus—at its re:MARS conference in Las Vegas, where it also showcased a fancy new drone and a sidewalk delivery bot.

It's happening....

These companies are already replacing humans with robots We reveal 30 firms swapping people for droids.

“Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world,” - Vladimir Putin

Oh boy!

Scientists Have Created Programmable Shape-Shifting Liquid Metal Researchers at the University of Sussex and Swansea University have applied electrical charges to manipulate liquid metal into 2D shapes such as letters and a h

Our Computers Are Learning How to Code Themselves This AI can locate and piece together source code on its own.

The working dead: IT jobs bound for extinction Rapid shifts in technologies—and evolving business needs—make career reinvention a matter of survival in the IT industry

Google’s Artificial Intelligence Learns “Highly Aggressive” Behavior, Concept of Betrayal An artificial intelligence created by Google recently made headlines after learning "highly aggressive" behavior. The intelligence engaged in a wolfpack hunting game scenario, and a fruit gathering scenario. The wolfpack game was based on cooperation, but the fruit game got strange. In the fruit gam...

Special report: Automation puts jobs in peril As the political debate rages over how to boost the American economy with Trump taking office, automation presents perhaps the greatest threat. But it may also reflect the economy's greatest opportunity

Tech’s Alcohol-Soaked Culture Isn’t a Party for Everybody Beer fridges and boozy parties are meant to make the tech industry more appealing. But it's time for tech to rethink its relationship with alcohol.

Elon Musk: We Need Universal Income Because Robots Will Steal All the Jobs Spacentrepreneur Elon Musk thinks we’ll eventually need a basic universal income because of “automation.”

Natural language: The future of automated writing Can you tell the difference between what is written by a human and by algorithmic artificial intelligence?

Technology is killing the myth of human centrality – let's embrace our demotion The stories we tell around technology shape both our understanding and the future of technology itself

I'm Taking Your Job! - Shelly Palmer We just used a few overeducated millennials and some open-source code to get a bunch of cognitive nonrepetitive workers fired. Which sucks!

New Report Predicts Over 100,000 Legal Jobs Will Be Lost To Automation An extensive new analysis by Deloitte estimates that over 100,000 jobs will be lost to technological automation within the next two decades.

The beginning of the end.

Apple's Amazon Echo Competitor Sounds Goddamned Terrifying Earlier this week The Information reported that Apple is making a smart hub to compete with the very cool Amazon Echo and recently announced Google Home. This is not shocking. Consumer technology companies new favorite thing is to get their remarkably well-designed talons into every aspect of our li...

The robots are coming.

Why Everyone Must Get Ready For 4th Industrial Revolution First came steam and water power; then electricity and assembly lines; then computerization… So what comes next? Some call it the fourth industrial revolution, or industry 4.0, but whatever you call it, it represents the combination of cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, and the Internet…

Interview: Roman Yampolskiy Discusses AI, Killer Robots, and the Age of the Machine What dangers do robots with artificial intelligence pose? How will they replace humans? And how will we adapt?

8 industries robots will completely transform by 2025 Get ready for "connected" cars and "robo-advisors."

The Pentagon is Worried About Killer Robots From China and Russia | Inverse Can we ensure our national security without pursuing killer robot technology? The Pentagon doesn’t think so. Such was the discussion at Monday’s n...

Artificial Intelligence frightens me very much.

7 trends for artificial intelligence in 2016: 'Like 2015 on steroids' - TechRepublic TechRepublic checked in with AI experts Andrew Moore, Kathleen Richardson, and Roman Yampolskiy, for their take on what we've seen in AI this year and what's coming in 2016.

Robots May Take Our Jobs, World Business Report - BBC World Service We talk to Martin Ford, author of the Financial Times Book of the Year 2015.

Will we eventually become slaves?

Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’ A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end

Stop educating students for jobs that won't exist | Fox News Rather than fight the future, schools should prepare the next generation of workers for it.

A Future Without Jobs Does Not Equal a Future Without Work I almost have a basic income above the poverty level. I'm not even there yet, but I can already see where this will lead if everyone else has it too. It's a world not to fear, but to fight every day for, so that's exactly what I do.

This is where AI would benefit humanity greatly.

NASA Unveils Its Plan To Send Humans To Mars Permanently NASA has laid out a detailed plan for how it intends to send humans to Mars in the next few decades. The 36-page report explains the technology and infrastructure that will be needed to make missions to Mars a reality.

We're One Step Closer To Creating Artificial Skin With a Sense of Touch Cutting-edge prosthesis are amazing, but they lack one very important feature: a sense of touch. Now a research team from Stanford University has developed artificial skin that can sense force exerted by objects—and then transmit those sensory signals to brain cells.

[Readings] | The Transhuman Condition, by John Markoff | Harper's Magazine By John Markoff, from Machines of Loving Grace, out this month from Ecco Books. Markoff has been a technology and business reporter for the New York Times since 1988.

We're all screwed.

AI machine achieves IQ test score of young child Some people might find it enough reason to worry; others, enough reason to be upbeat about what we can achieve in computer science; all await the next chapters in artificial intelligence to see what more a machine can do to mimic human intelligence. We already saw what machines can do in arithmetic,…