Six Ways to Stop the Terminator Robots

A new book, "Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong", considers options for ensuring that robots don't take over the world and subjugate or destroy the human race, a popular concept in science fiction....

Talk to Your Cell Phone and Get Answers

Google and Apple iPhone have teamed up to provide a new free service; you'll be able to ask your phone virtually any question (factual questions and directions are expected common uses) and artificial intelligence will interpret your words and flash the results onto your...

Future Cell Phones: Look Ma Bell- No Buttons!

In about five years, cell phone key pads will be made obsolete by cell phone technology that can understand your voice as well as interpret your gestures and see what you're looking at. "Buttons are on their way...

Extraterrestrials: Web-Bot supports Gnostic allegations that universe was not...

Pagan ancient Gnostics suggest that our Earth is a biotic consciousness that has been captured in an artificial universe which is created by Manipulative Extraterrestrials. Dr. John Lash describes the Gnostics as...

Turing Test Almost Passed: 3 out 12 Judges Say 'Elbot' Computer is Human!

The AP article is a general overview:"UK university holds artificial intelligence testREADING, England (AP) — Computers argued, cracked jokes and parried trick questions Sunday, all part of an annual test of...

Turing Test Contest Proves Artificial Intelligence is Making Gains

The Loebner Prize contest was held in England this past weekend, where artificial intelligence machines were put to the test to see if they could convince judges that they were intelligent humans.  Based on...

DARPA-linked Cycorp "Predicted" the Anthrax Attacks - 6 months before they ha...

This clip first appeared in US News & World Report April 7, 2003. Reprehensor of 911Blogger.com has provided links to the original, plus additional info on some of the people and organizations involved. See also the Able Danger Timeline at HistoryCommons.org; the program...

The Old Meeting the New

The Old Meeting the New By: Anthea Mislan Technology to help to often neglected people in our society: the elderly. Artificial intelligence and robotics are fairly new on the market; the first one developed merely 1961 in t General Motors Plant. With a fast advancing...

RoboRoach, Better Than A Treasure Finder

 Who of us hasn't fallen victim to the malicious ways of forgetfulness? Now, with the creation of the RoboRoach, those peskey keys and socks will no longer be beyond our reach. Mitsubishi has recently come out with a device that combines one part dog, one part bug,...

Coming soon: a "software brain"

Jeff Hawkins, the guy behind the Palm Pilot and the Treo, says he has created software that engages in true learning like the human brain. The artificial intelligence breakthrough will be unveiled soon by Numenta. Unlike other electronics which are only capable of acquiring...

No sex please, robot, just clean the floor

"The analysis culminated at a meeting recently held in Genoa by the European Robotics Research Network (Euron) that examined the problems likely to arise as robots become smarter, faster, stronger and ubiquitous. Ethical problems involving machines were predicted in the 1950s...

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