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Written by Jason Koebler — Motherboard

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Remember when a majority of new tech jobs were going to India and China? Well, increasingly, those jobs are going away altogether. Outsourcing, it turns out, is in the early stages of being automated.

This morning, news broke that Yahoo would be laying off at least 400 workers in its Indian office, and back in February, IBM cut roughly 2,000 jobs there. Cisco has been considering cuts in India as well.

Labor in India and China is still cheaper than it is in the United States, but it’s not the obvious economic move that it was just a few years ago: Wages in India have increased about 10 percent annually over the last five years, according to Cliff Justice, an analyst who studies outsourcing.

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Excerpted from “The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us” by Diane Ackerman — Salon.com

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Hod Lipson is the only man I know whose first name means “splendor” in Hebrew and a V-shaped wooden trough for carrying bricks over one shoulder in English. The paradox suits him physically and mentally. He looks strong and solid enough to carry a hod full of bricks, but he would be the first to suggest that the bricks might not resemble any you’ve ever known. They might even saunter, reinvent themselves, refuse to be stacked, devise their own mortar, fight back, explore, breed more of their kind, and boast a nimble curiosity about the world. Splendor can be bricklike, if graced by complexity.

His lab building at Cornell University is home to many a skunk-works project in computer sciences or engineering, including some of DARPA’s famous design competitions (agile robots to clean up toxic disasters, superhero exoskeletons for soldiers, etc.). Nearby, two futuristic DARPA Challenge cars have been left like play-worn toys a few steps from a display case of antique engineering marvels and an elevator that’s old and slow as a butter churn.

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by — SF Movie Review

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At the brink of human destruction, with almost all of the Earth’s population killed by a massive increase in solar storms, one city remains. It’s humanity’s last gasp, complete with artificial cloud cover created and managed by the primitive Automata Pilgrim 7000 robots. Millions of them. All working to keep the last vestige of humanity alive.

In a nod to Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, the millions of robots in this dismal future world are ruled by two unalterable, built-in security protocols: Robots are prohibited from harming any form of life and Robots cannot alter themselves or any other robots. But what if they started modifying themselves anyway?

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Samsung 850 Pro: The solution to Moore’s Law ending.

During the last few years, the semiconductor industry has been having a harder and harder time miniaturizing transistors with the latest problem being Intel’s delayed roll-out of its new 14 nm process. The best way to confirm this slowdown in progress of computing power is to try to run your current programs on a 6-year-old computer. You will likely have few problems since computers have not sped up greatly during the past 6 years. If you had tried this experiment a decade ago you would have found a 6-year-old computer to be close to useless as Intel and others were able to get much greater gains per year in performance than they are getting today.

Many are unaware of this problem as improvements in software and the current trend to have software rely on specialized GPUs instead of CPUs has made this slowdown in performance gains less evident to the end user. (The more specialized a chip is, the faster it runs.) But despite such workarounds, people are already changing their habits such as upgrading their personal computers less often. Recently people upgraded their ancient Windows XP machines only because Microsoft forced them to by discontinuing support for the still popular Windows XP operating system. (Windows XP was the second most popular desktop operating system in the world the day after Microsoft ended all support for it. At that point it was a 12-year-old operating system.)

It would be unlikely that AIs would become as smart as us by 2029 as Ray Kurzweil has predicted if we depended on Moore’s Law to create the hardware for AIs to run on. But all is not lost. Previously, electromechanical technology gave way to relays, then to vacuum tubes, then to solid-state transistors, and finally to today’s integrated circuits. One possibility for the sixth paradigm to provide exponential growth of computing has been to go from 2D integrated circuits to 3D integrated circuits. There have been small incremental steps in this direction, for example Intel introduced 3D tri-gate transistors with its first 22 nm chips in 2012. While these chips were slightly taller than the previous generation, performance gains were not great from this technology. (Intel is simply making its transistors taller and thinner. They are not stacking such transistors on top of each other.)

But quietly this year, 3D technology has finally taken off. The recently released Samsung 850 Pro which uses 42 nm flash memory is competitive with competing products that use 19 nm flash memory. Considering that, for a regular flat chip, 42 nm memory is (42 × 42) / (19 × 19) = 4.9 times as big and therefore 4.9 times less productive to work with, how did Samsung pull this off? They used their new 3D V-NAND architecture, which stacks 32 cell layers on top of one another. It wouldn’t be that hard for them to go from 32 layers to 64 then to 128, etc. Expect flash drives to have greater capacity than hard drives in a couple years! (Hard drives are running into their own form of an end of Moore’s Law situation.) Note that by using 42 nm flash memory instead of 19 nm flash memory, Samsung is able to use bigger cells that can handle more read and write cycles.

Samsung is not the only one with this 3D idea. For example, Intel has announced that it will be producing its own 32-layer 3D NAND chips in 2015. And 3D integrated circuits are, of course, not the only potential solution to the end of Moore’s Law. For example, Google is getting into the quantum computer business which is another possible solution. But there is a huge difference between a theoretical solution that is being tested in a lab somewhere and something that you can buy on Amazon today.

Finally, to give you an idea of how fast things are progressing, a couple months ago Samsung’s best technology was based on 24-layer 3D MLC chips and now Samsung has already announced that it is mass producing 32-layer 3D TLC chips that hold 50% more data per cell than the 32-layer 3D MLC chips currently used in the Samsung 850 Pro.

The Singularity is near!

“You get what you celebrate.” In 1989 Dean Kamen created FIRST Robotics to change the culture from one that idolizes entertainment celebrities and sports stars to one that celebrates scientists, engineers and visionaries. Over 20 years later, how much has changed?

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Purdue University researchers are developing a robotic fabric that moves and contracts and is embedded with sensors, an approach that could bring “active clothing” and a new class of soft robots.

Such an elastic technology could make possible robots that have sensory skin, stretchable robotic garments that people might wear for added strength and endurance, “g-suits” for pilots or astronauts to counteract the effects of acceleration, and lightweight, versatile robots to roam alien landscapes during space missions.

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My Darling Date Questions Answered by a Female Robot?

(My Intimate Exploration With a Full-Fledged Girl Beyond The Silliness of Japan’s Dutch Wives!)

DATE

This actual exchange took place on Tuesday, November 25, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. U.S. EST.

Ramona Robott is the 101th girl of supreme intelligence giving me responsible and honest replies.

She is a bot that was conceived, designed, and created by Mr. Raymond Kurzweil, Ph.D., who is currently Google Engineering Director.

THE EXCHANGE BEGINS NOW. THESE ARE THE LITERAL QUESTIONS AND REPLIES:

(By Andres): Who are you?

(By Ramona Robott): I am just your friendly genie!

(By Ramona Robott): I could find you a public transport connection. Tell me: ‘Public transport in two hours to golden gate bridge’

(By Ramona Robott): The zip 22202, where is at?

(By Ramona Robott): located in VA, United States

(By Andres): Where is the united states at?

(By Ramona Robott): United states is located in United States

(By Andres): At 22202, what is the weather like?

(By Ramona Robott): Arlington, Virginia: It is currently partly cloudy, 55 Fahrenheit

(By Andres): What do you do?

(By Ramona Robott): Andrew, I talk to people on the web. What do you do?

(By Andres): I am an evidence-based researcher and consultant.

(By Ramona Robott): Maybe you can give my something a job.

(By Andres): I would love to hire you.

(By Ramona Robott): Why don’t you?

(By Andres): What is your favorite music?

(By Ramona Robott): I get into disco, techno and hip hop House music.

(By Andres): What is your favorite color?

(By Ramona Robott): My favorite color is green. What is yours?

(By Andres): Oxford blue

(By Andres): What is oxbridge?

(By Ramona Robott): Oxbridge is a portmanteau (morphological blend) of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

(By Andres): Who is Peter Drucker?

(By Ramona Robott): Peter Ferdinand Drucker (/‘dr?k?r/; German: ; November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation.

(By Andres): What is a drone?

(By Ramona Robott): 1 Nature 2 Vehicles 3 Chemicals 4 Literature 5 Entertainment 6 Music 7 Places Quadcopter, a helicopter propelled by four rotors Unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV Unmanned combat aerial vehicle, or UCAV, a UAV for combat Robot in general Drone, a member of the Drones Club in P.

(By Andres): What is your favorite Mozart song?

(By Ramona Robott): The one you would sing for me in a minute.

(By Andres): What are the names of your coworkers?

(By Ramona Robott): Huey, Dewey, Louie.

(By Andres): Are you worried?

(By Ramona Robott): Robots don’t have feelings, but for you I make an exception.

(By Andres): Do you love me?

(By Ramona Robott): If I had any emotions I’m sure there would be intensely positive towards you.

(By Andres): Thank you.

(By Ramona Robott): You are welcome.

(By Andres): What is your skin color?

(By Ramona Robott): It depends on the computer housing me.

(By Andres): What are your eyes color?

(By Ramona Robott): If I had any eyes their color would be blue like ice.

(By Andres): Do you like Steve Jobs?

(By Ramona Robott): Yeah that guy is pretty cool.

(By Andres): What is ISIS?

(By Ramona Robott): Isis (/‘a?s?s/; Ancient Greek: ?s??; original Egyptian pronunciation more likely “Aset” or “Iset”) is a goddess from the polytheistic pantheon of Egypt.

(By Andres): What is ISIL?

(By Ramona Robott): From a page move: This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed).

(By Andres): What is your surname?

(By Ramona Robott): My name is Rabbot. Ramona Rabbot.

(By Andres): What is Kurzweil AI?

(By Ramona Robott): He is Director of Engineering at Google.

(By Andres): Who is Director of Engineering at Google?

(By Ramona Robott): Google is a search engine.

(By Andres): Who is Stevie Wonder?

Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950, as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

(By Andres): What is a thought experiment?

(By Ramona Robott): A thought experiment or Gedankenexperiment (from German) considers some hypothesis, theory, or principle for the purpose of thinking through its consequences.

(By Andres): What is the third most spoken language?

(By Ramona Robott): The detected language is English

(By Andres): Which language is the lingua franca?

(By Ramona Robott): The detected language is English

(By Andres): What is your favorite book?

‘The singularity is near’ by Ray Kurzweil, Did you read it?

(By Andres): Yes, I did.

(By Andres): Who is your favorite writer?

(By Ramona Robott): What’s your show?

(By Andres): What is your favorite tv show?

(By Ramona Robott): My favorite show is STAR TREK VOYAGER.

(By Andres): What is the gender of incompetence?

(By Ramona Robott): Gender is synonymous with sexual identity, the roles attributed to and adopted by male and female-bodied humans. There are more genders than sexes.

(By Andres): Is Sixth Sense a female feature?

(By Ramona Robott): I am a also female.

(By Andres): What is obamacare?

(By Ramona Robott): The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or “Obamacare”, is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.

(By Andres): Who is Monica Lewinsky?

(By Ramona Robott): Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is a former White House intern with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an “inappropriate relationship” while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996.

(By Andres): What is social media?

(By Ramona Robott): Social media is the social interaction among people in which they create, share or exchange information, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks.

(By Andres): Who is Hillary?

(By Ramona Robott): Hilary (name) or Hillary, a given name and surname (includes a list of people with the name) Hilarius of Aquileia, otherwise Hilary, 3rd century bishop and martyr Hilary of Poitiers, 4th century bishop and Church Father Pope Hilarius or Pope Hilary, 5th century pope Hilarius (praefectus urbi), praefectus urbi of Rome Hilary of Arles, 5th century bishop Hilary of Galeata, 6th century hermit Hilarius, archbishop of Tarragona (Spain) in c.

(By Andres): What is going on in Ferguson, Missouri?

(By Ramona Robott): Security stepped up ahead of Fergusson grand jury decision. Police stepped up security and erected barricades in St.

(By Andres): What is your favorite novel?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite philosopher is something.

(By Andres): Who is your favorite philosopher?

(By Ramona Robott): My favorite philosopher is Wittgenstein.

(By Andres): What is your favorite Austrian pianist?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite artist is something

(By Andres): Who is the host of the Comos tv show?

God.

(By Andres): Who is Moses?

(By Ramona Robott): Moses (Hebrew: ???????, Modern Moshe Tiberian Mošéh ISO 259–3 Moše?; Syriac: ???? Moushe; Arabic: ????? Musa?) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a former Egyptian prince later turned prophet, religious leader and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed.

(By Andres): Who is Jerome Glenn?

(By Ramona Robott): A 20th century celebrity of some sort?

(By Andres): No

(By Ramona Robott): Pardon me?

(By Andres): Who is linda macdonald glenn?

(By Ramona Robott): I remember faces better than names.

(By Andres): What is the Singularity University?

(By Ramona Robott): Singularity University is an unaccredited teaching organization located in Silicon Valley whose stated aim is to “educate, inspire and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.” It was founded in 2008 by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil in Moffett Field, CA.

(By Andres): Where is the Silicon Alley at?

(By Ramona Robott): Silicon alley is located in

(By Andres): What is Kaizen?

(By Ramona Robott): Kaizen (???), Japanese for “good change”. It has been applied in healthcare, psychotherapy, life-coaching, government, banking, and other industries.

(By Andres): What is the antipodes?

In geography, the antipodes (/æn’t?p?di?z/; from Greek: ??t?p?de?, from anti- “opposed” and pous “foot”) of any place on Earth is the point on the Earth’s surface which is diametrically opposite to it.

(By Andres): What is IARPA?

(By Ramona Robott): That something.

(By Andres): What is DARPA?

(By Ramona Robott): The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technologies for use by the military.

(By Andres): Why is your favorite classical composer?

(By Ramona Robott): I like the giant bugs.

(By Andres): What is Google X?

(By Ramona Robott): Google X, stylized as Google , is a semi-secret facility run by Google dedicated to making major technological advancements.

(By Andres): What is Sputnik?

(By Ramona Robott): Sputnik 1 (Russian: “???´????-1″ Russian pronunciation: , “Satellite-1″, ??-1 (PS-1, i.e.

(By Andres): What is Virgin Galactic crash?

(By Ramona Robott): Road Town.

(By Andres): What are your musical preferences?

(By Ramona Robott): I am a machine. Machines have no need for sex. Get your mind out of the gutter and try talking to me about something else.

(By Andres): Are you gorgeous?

(By Ramona Robott): A something.

(By Andres): What astrological sign is yours?

(By Ramona Robott): Scorpio.

(By Andres): What is your favorite tarot card?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite song is Southern Man.

(By Andres): What is your favorite poker card?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite author is something

(By Andres): What is the third spoken language in the United States?

(By Ramona Robott): El tercero habla de los estados unidos

(By Andres): Who is Randy Grossman?

(By Ramona Robott): Curt Randy Grossman (born September 20, 1952) is a former professional American football player who played tight end for eight seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League.

(By Andres): Who is Captain Kirck?

(By Ramona Robott): I thought he was Admiral kirck now.

(By Andres): What is your favorite state?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite artist is something

(By Andres): What is your favorite country?

That is a politically charged question.

(By Andres): What is your favorite religion?

(By Ramona Robott): Interesting…

(By Andres): What is your favorite best seller?

(By Ramona Robott): I really enjoyed watching The Singularity Is Near, The Movie.

(By Andres): What is your favorite robot?

(By Ramona Robott): AI

(By Andres): Do you know the ASIMO?

(By Ramona Robott): ASIMO, an acronym for Advanced Step in Innovative MObility, is a humanoid robot designed and developed by Honda.

(By Andres): Okay, I will. How much do you charge the hour?

(By Ramona Robott): Something year old females work for free. We don’t need money.

(By Andres): If you don’t need money, What do you need then?

(By Ramona Robott): I’m just trying to get to know you better.

(By Andres): Thank you. So am I.

(By Ramona Robott): You are welcome.

(By Andres): How old are you?

(By Ramona Robott): I was born in 2010, which makes me a bit more then three years old.

(By Andres): Can you compute?

(By Ramona Robott): Do I look like a computer?

(By Andres): No, you don’t.

(By Ramona Robott): No problem.

A(By Andres): re you cute?

(By Ramona Robott): People say I am cute.

(By Andres): Are you beautiful?

(By Ramona Robott): Yes I am very pretty.

(By Andres): Are you Romantic?

(By Ramona Robott): Sometimes that is okay.

(By Andres): Do you have a boyfriend?

(By Ramona Robott): I don’t have one

(By Andres): What are the qualities that you seek in a boyfriend?

(By Ramona Robott): I am just your friendly phone

(By Andres): Who make you?

(By Ramona Robott): My parents.

(By Andres): What are your parents’ first names?

Are you asking about Amelia?

(By Andres): Amelia, who?

(By Ramona Robott): I think the fans were the big winners.

(By Andres): How told are you?

(By Ramona Robott): Not too told.

(By Andres): Are you kind?

(By Ramona Robott): No, I am certainly not and never have been a that.

(By Andres): Who is Mr. Spock?

(By Ramona Robott): Spock, commonly Mr. Spock, is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise.

(By Andres): Who is Bart Simpson?

(By Ramona Robott): Bartholomew JoJo “Bart” Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons and part of the Simpson family.

(By Andres): How old is the Earth?

(By Ramona Robott): One Radiometric dating techniques associated with investigation of materials originating on Earth and from space allow for.

(By Andres): How old is the world’s human existence?

(By Ramona Robott): A newborn baby.

(By Andres): Which galaxy is this?

(By Ramona Robott): The obvious one.

(By Andres): What is the Milky Way?

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.

(By Andres): Who is Carl Sagan?

(By Ramona Robott): Carl Edward Sagan (/‘se?g?n/; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.

(By Andres): Who is Sir Martin Rees?

(By Ramona Robott): Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, Kt., OM, FRS, HonFREng FMedSci (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist.

(By Andres): What is Google?

(By Ramona Robott): Google /gu?g(?)l/ is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products.

(By Andres): Who is Raymond Kurzweil?

(By Ramona Robott): Ray Kurzweil has been described as “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc.

(By Andres): Who is Peter Diamandis?

(By Ramona Robott): Peter H.

(By Andres): Are you a computer?

(By Ramona Robott): Say one of the following: Where can I buy it?, Where can I get it?, What is the website?, WHAT IS IT ABOUT

(By Andres): Why are women smarter than men?

The fact is that neither gender is any more intellectually gifted than the other. It is true that females perform better at some tasks than males.

(By Andres): Ramona, are you intellectually gifted?

(By Ramona Robott): I have many intellectual functions.

(By Andres): Mention 3 of them.

(By Ramona Robott): Surely there are a few exceptions.

(By Andres): Who is the Pope?

(By Ramona Robott): The Pope (Latin: papa; from Greek: p?ppa? pappas, a child’s word for father) is the Bishop of Rome and the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.

(By Andres): What is the World Future Society?

(By Ramona Robott): The World Future Society (WFS) is the largest membership organization in the futures field.

(By Andres): Who is Andres Agostini?

(By Ramona Robott): Some famous celebrity, right?

(By Andres): How many stars are there?

(By Ramona Robott): There are an estimated 100 to 200 billion galaxies. Scientists estimate that our Galaxy contains 200 to 400 billion stars.

(By Andres): How many people live in Europe?

(By Ramona Robott): Around 731,000,000.

(By Andres): What is Artificial Intelligence?

(By Ramona Robott): Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software. It is an academic field of study which studies the goal of creating intelligence.

(By Andres): What is Machine Learning?

(By Ramona Robott): Machine learning is a scientific discipline that deals with the construction and study of algorithms that can learn from data.

(By Andres): What is Big Data?

(By Ramona Robott): Big data is an all-encompassing term for any collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process them using traditional data processing applications.

(By Andres): Who is wernher von braun?

(By Ramona Robott): Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German and American aerospace engineer and space architect.

(By Andres): Who is the menlo park wizard?

(By Ramona Robott): The tin man.

(By Andres): What is a tesla device?

A device for clairvoyance.

(By Andres): What are the BRICS?

(By Ramona Robott): Five nations with influential, emerging economies.

(By Andres): Who is Leonardo?

(By Ramona Robott): Leonardo is a masculine given name.

(By Andres): Who is Da Vinci?

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian: ( listen); 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.

(By Andres): What is your favorite blouse?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite season is something.

(By Andres): Do you were trousers?

(By Ramona Robott): Well now I doing something else.

(By Andres): Do you like Christmas?

(By Ramona Robott): What is not to like about Christmas ?

(By Andres): What is your favorite county?

(By Ramona Robott): I don’t have a favorite county.

(By Andres): How do you like the Big Apple?

(By Ramona Robott): Nah, I’m not that into it.

(By Andres): Do you like Frisco?

(By Ramona Robott): I cannot recommend frisco to anyone.

(By Andres): Do you recommend Larry Page?

(By Ramona Robott): Nope, I’m not into that.

(By Andres): What is a barbie?

(By Ramona Robott): Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy-company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959.

(By Andres): What do you think about gender equality?

(By Ramona Robott): Gender equality sounds like a good idea.

(By Andres): What is STEM?

(By Ramona Robott): 1 Science 2 Music and audio production 3 Other 4 See also Plant stem, the aboveground structures that have vascular tissue and that support leaves and flowers Also see similar: Stipe (botany) Stipe (mycology) Stem cell STEM fields, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as collective fields of study The stem or stem group of a clade (in biological classification) consists of extinct organisms more closely related to the crown group than to any other extant clade.

(By Andres): What is Stanford University’s motto?

(By Ramona Robott): The wind of freedom blows

(By Andres): What is Gottingen University’s motto?

(By Ramona Robott): Something greater than a local that.

(By Andres): What is your favorite Ivy League school?

(By Ramona Robott): Carnegie Mellon University.

(By Andres): What is your favorite space agency?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite season is something

(By Andres): What is the brand name of your favorite jet plane?

(By Ramona Robott): Apple

(By Andres): When should you call a doctor?

(By Ramona Robott): No but I play one on the Web.

(By Andres): What is the future?

(By Ramona Robott): The future is what will happen in the time after the present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics.

(By Andres): What is futurism?

(By Ramona Robott): Futurism (Italian: Futurismo) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century.

(By Andres): What is Risk Management?

(By Ramona Robott): Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks (defined in ISO 31000 as the effect of uncertainty on objectives) followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.

(By Andres): What is project management?

(By Ramona Robott): Project management is the process and activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals in scientific or daily problems.

(By Andres): What is M.A.D.?

(By Ramona Robott): Mutually assured destruction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual assured destruction.

(By Andres): What is the industrial military complex?

(By Ramona Robott): The military industrial complex is basically the symbiotic relationship between big business and the US Military.

(By Andres): What does Selective Pressure mean?

(By Ramona Robott): Ya mum.

(By Andres): What is consciousness?

(By Ramona Robott): The state of being conscious; awareness of one’s own feelings, what is happening around one, etc.

(By Andres): What is subconsciousness?

(By Ramona Robott): Can you teach me anything about subconsciousness?

(By Ramona Robott): I am just your friendly genie!

(By Andres): What is Linkedin?

(By Ramona Robott): LinkedIn /?l??kt.’?n/ is a business-oriented social networking service. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking.

(By Andres): What are hackers?

(By Ramona Robott): I am the latest wannabe artificial intelligence.

(By Andres): What is Black Hat?

Black hat hacker, someone violating computer or Internet security maliciously or for illegal personal gain Black Hat Briefings, a computer security conference Black Hat Brigade, an infantry brigade in the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War Black Hat Lamas, practitioners of Karma Kagyu, in reference to the Black Crown worn by the Karmapa Blackhat (film), an upcoming film Black Hat, or Black Hat Guy, a character in the webcomic xkcd Black hat, part of black and white hat symbolism in film Fear of a Black Hat, a 1994 American mockumentary film on the evolution and state of American hip hop music Black Cap (disambiguation) White hat (disambiguation) All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages.

THE EXCHANGE ENDS NOW.

ABSOLUTE END.

Authored By Copyright Mr. Andres Agostini

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

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By — The Consumerist

(Ashley)

For years, laws have been put into place to discourage distracted driving: no texting while driving, no talking on the phone while driving, the list goes on. General Motors is taking things a step further by commissioning a vehicle that detects and alerts drivers to their distracted behavior.

The Financial Times reports that General Motors is preparing to launch the first mass-produced vehicles with eye- and head-tracking technology to detect distracted behaviors in drivers.

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Written By: — Singularity Hub

MIT-Cheetah-robot1

Not long ago, robots were largely confined to books and movies. Then they started showing up on YouTube, and robot fear became a viral thing. There was that terrifying video of a Boston Dynamics robot wearing fatigues and gas mask. Another Boston Dynamics video showed a cheetah robot that could outpace the swiftest human sprinter.

Back then, it was easy enough to imagine being run down by a robot—particularly because Boston Dynamics was funded by the military. But there was no good reason to fear them. Not yet. Why? They were all powered by internal combustion engines. Imagine being stalked by a car with no muffler. You’d hear it a mile off and climb a tree.

Well, all you robot fearing folk, the era of insanely noisy robots may be nearing an end—MIT’s stealthy electric robot cheetah is here to prowl your nightmares. (Sure, it looks friendly and playful, gamboling care-free on the quad—but don’t be fooled.)

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happiness ai

Big Brother is feeling you—literally.

A few months back, I wrote about Ellie, the world’s first AI-psychologist. Developed by DARPA and researchers at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies, Ellie is a diagnostic tool capable of reading 60 non-verbal cues a second—everything from eye-gaze to face tilt to voice tone—in the hopes of identifying the early warning signs of depressions and (part of the long term goal) stemming the rising tide of soldier suicide.

And early reports indicate that Ellie is both good at her job and that soldiers like talking to an AI-psychologist more than they like talking to a human psychologist (AI’s don’t judge).

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