IBM quickly took issue with Google’s claim that it had achieved “quantum supremacy” , a term that refers to a point when a quantum computer can perform a calculation that a traditional computer can’t complete within its lifetime. Quantum bits,…
Artificial Intelligence
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Technology and Engineering
The Web Giant Just Unveiled A New AI To Write Poems Over Portraits
by Lukas Norberg May 5, 2019While Poem Portraits project by Google can create poetic lines weaved around a single word selection prevalent in 19th-century works of literature. Artist and designer Es Devlin designed the project, while Google’s resident creative technologist, Ross Goodwin, trained its algorithm…
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Technology and Engineering
Atlas Is Based On Boston Dynamics Earlier Petman Humanoid Robot
by Lukas Norberg April 21, 2019A new video from AIST, Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, shows a prototype robot designed to work on construction sites in situations where there is a shortage of human workers. While large factory assembly lines are rapidly…
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Communication, Education and Outreach
AI Robots At International Space Station
by Lukas Norberg April 19, 2019Late last year the ESA launched a robotic assistant known as “CIMON” (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) to the ISS to help astronauts with a variety of tasks ranging from schedule keeping to basic maintenance. These tasks and completing chores so…
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Communication, Education and Outreach
People Are Not That Different
by Lukas Norberg February 10, 2019Artificial intelligence, or AI, has been dramatized in plenty of science fiction movies. We all have many social identities, and we might act in different ways depending on which one is activated. Not many people know exactly what the future…
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Technology and Engineering
Artificial Intelligence Is Effectively Everywhere | This Is Abstraction In Action
by Lukas Norberg December 22, 2018The study could also have implications for artificial intelligence because efficient autonomous robots will need to rely on robust, computationally inexpensive algorithms, and could benefit from employing insect-inspired scanning behaviours. Most of the time, the robots are shaped like a car so…
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Communication, Education and Outreach
We Can Not Get Behind Consciousness | Today, Things Are Different
by Lukas Norberg December 19, 2018CRISPR, a biological system for altering DNA, was discovered in 2012. Researchers have used CRISPR in the lab since the mid-2000s, so they don’t know its long-term ramifications in human cells – ones which may be passed on to future generations.…