AI Researchers Look to Create Frankenstein Cyborg by Putting Neanderthal Brains into Robots
Frankenstein is the timeless story of reanimating a dead body through the use of technology. And now a team of researchers in the US seem to be walking in the footsteps of Mary Shelley’s creation with a new experiment. Teams at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) are experimenting with lumps of tissue taken from fossil bones of our … Continue reading
Google AI to Predict Patient Life Expectancy
Google has been expanding its medical services for some time now, but according to a new research paper, its AI neural networks could significantly improve the healthcare patients receive when going to the hospital. Whereas most software used in health care these days is coded by humans, Google’s new machine can understand the data by itself. “They understand what problems … Continue reading
Alien Killer Robots May Have Wiped Out Extraterrestrial Colonies
All lifeforms in the universe could be wiped out by Rogue artificial intelligence! via inquisitr: The search for life throughout the solar system remains one of the most intriguing possibilities for humanity, but so far, the search has yielded no measurable results. One scientist believes he knows the reason why — alien killer robots. While it might sound like the … Continue reading
MIT Creates ‘Norman’ the Psychopath AI
Between Boston Dynamics’ headless, door-opening cyborg dogs, Omron Automation’s empathy chips for robots, and MIT Media Lab’s new ‘psychopath’ AI Norman (named for Norman Bates, the murderer from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho), it looks like we’ve got everything we need to cobble together a darker, more violent version of I, Robot, or at least another episode of Black Mirror Season 5. … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence Could Bring Karl Marx’s Ideas to Life
Admittedly I don’t know too much about Karl Marx, but that quote in the headline image is something that that I agree with. Perhaps his ideas/beliefs warrant a closer look. via RT: AI could prove itself to be most effective when used in conditions of a planned economy, not in a free market system as previously thought, according to participants … Continue reading
Humanoid AI Robot Can Chase After You
Terminator is slowing coming true :O via Unexplained-Mysteries: Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot Atlas is now able to run and jump outside without being tethered to anything. It may have taken three years to accomplish, but now the eerily human-like creation has been given free reign to go wherever it pleases and can even jump over obstacles in its path. In … Continue reading
Russia to Open First Sex Robot Brothel in Moscow
From Russia with Love? Wait till you read the details..personally found some of it weird and creepy.. not judging, just saying. via Sputniknews: Nightlife in the Russian capital may soon take on a new variety with the upcoming opening of the first legal sexbot brothel in the country. The first Dolls Hotel adult entertainment center featuring sex robots is scheduled … Continue reading
Drones Soon to Use Artificial Intelligence to Decide Who to Kill
Skynet anyone? Shades of Terminator Rise of the Machines no? The automated cars have already killed, now these things are going to be intentionally programmed to kill, well I can’t see anything going wrong with this idea. via CSGlobe: Once complete, these drones will represent the ultimate militarisation of AI and trigger vast legal and ethical implications for wider society. … Continue reading
Robot Given Task of Cracking Zodiac Killer Case Started Doing Something Very Disturbing
This is just a little creepy. The task of breaking one of the hardest codes of all time left by the notorious Zodiac Killer was given to a ROBOT but it has begun to do something very bizarre and disturbing. via Express UK: The AI programme called CARMEL is trying to break one of the most perplexing cyphers in history … Continue reading
Developments in AI Could Lead to the Making of an ‘Immortal Dictator’ – Elon Musk
Imagine your least-favorite world leader. (Take as much time as you need.) Now, imagine if that person wasn’t a human, but a network of millions of computers around the world. This digi-dictator has instant access to every scrap of recorded information about every person who’s ever lived. It can make millions of calculations in a fraction of a second, controls … Continue reading
