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Category: Artificial Intelligence, Bias
Data bias caused by poorly curated data is increasingly emerging as an important issue in the development of artificial intelligence. To this end, it is important to know that today’s AI is fed millions and millions of data sets through machine learning. Where this data comes from, and who selects and compiles it, is critical. …
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Category: Artificial Intelligence, Humor
An unassuming Twitter account featuring a pretty young lady who appeared to be a motorcycle enthusiast garnered a number of fans in Japan. She was repeatedly seen posing in front of the bike, standing in front of the sea with her motorcycle or tinkering with it in her workshop. Until someone discovered some inconsistencies. For …
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Category: Artificial Intelligence, Robot
In a TED Talk, robot ethicist Kate Darling of MIT describes how she demonstrated a small dinosaur robot to a friend. This little robot named Pleo had some sensors and motors built in, it could walk around and move its head, but it could also tell if it was standing upright or lying down. If …
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One of the fears that people express about robots and artificial intelligence is that of jobs. What jobs will people do when machines take over? First of all, there are two ways in which physical and cognitive machines change the way we work. Firstly, in the way they replace entire professions, such as truck and …
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Category: Artificial Intelligence
Dec 5
If you find it difficult to define a term or a situation, the consideration and definition of the opposite can be helpful. In workshops with companies thinking about how to prepare for the future, the following questions provide many new approaches and insights: “What if we didn’t make money with our most important product?” or …
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If one believes the common narrative in the media, Hollywood films and today’s popular science literature, then artificial intelligence (AI) will lead us into the apocalypse. The Terminator and Superintelligence will soon destroy us or at least enslave us all. AI will be smarter than us, and with it we will have created our last …
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Oct 28
Artificial Intelligence will kill us! If you listen to the unusual alliance of famous scientists, philosophers, and company founders then AI is the biggest threat to humanity since nuclear power. Stephen Hawking warned about the dangers right before his passing. Nick Bostrom, philosophy professor in Oxford and author of the opinion leading book Super Intelligence …
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Category: Artificial Intelligence
“Machines will be intelligent, when they can beat a human chess champion,” said some. And then it happened. IBM’s Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in 1997. “Well, such machines are not really intelligent, they just use brute force computing power.” That’s what the critics responded, and pushed the definition of ‘intelligence’ one level higher. How …
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Category: Artificial Intelligence
When the borders, that separated the Western from the Eastern countries, nobody could imagine that the former Warsaw-Pact countries would lead the West in some technological fields. While some years later a cable-based telephone system would dominate and wireless cell phone systems be rather lacking, Hungary had the fastest GSM-network. Before the fall of the borders …
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Category: Artificial Intelligence, Government
The universal basic income has recently been in the spotlight a lot and gotten some controversy. “Who’s going to pay for this?” and “This will just add to the laziness of people!” are some of the arguments against it. “Automation will bring millions of unemployed, we need the basic income!” are the arguments on the …
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