Tag: Artificial intelligence
Why is the Pentagon interested in UFOs?
Iain Boyd, University of Michigan
U.S. Navy pilots and sailors won’t be considered crazy for reporting unidentified flying objects, under new rules meant to encourage...
Retailers like Walmart are embracing robots – here’s how workers can...
Beth Humberd, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Walmart recently said it plans to deploy robots to scan shelves,...
Artificial intelligence may take your job, so political leaders need to...
Alan Montague, RMIT University; Alan Nankervis, RMIT University; John Burgess, RMIT University; Nuttawuth Muenjohn, RMIT University; Ros Cameron, Australian Institute of Business, and Timothy...
Artificial intelligence must know when to ask for human help
Sarah Scheffler, Boston University; Adam D. Smith, Boston University, and Ran Canetti, Boston University
Artificial intelligence systems are powerful tools for businesses and governments to...
How to prevent the ‘robot apocalypse’ from ending labor as we...
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management and Elisabeth Reynolds, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
It seems not a day goes by without the appearance of...
New AI art has artists, collaborators wondering: Who gets the credit?
Aaron Hertzmann, University of Washington
Over the past few years, many artists have started to use what’s called “neural network software” to create works of...
Sex robots are here, but laws aren’t keeping up with the...
Francis X. Shen, University of Minnesota
The robots are here. Are the “sexbots” close behind?
From the Drudge Report to The New York Times, sex robots...
3 ways that big data reveals what you really like to...
Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University
Anyone who’s watched “Bridget Jones’s Diary” knows one of her New Year’s resolutions is “Not go out every night but...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
