Will 2011 be the year of the robot?
Will 2011 turn into the year of robots and Artificial Intelligence? In South Korea, a school is using robots to teach English to children. The robots are remotely guided by teachers in the Philippines....
View ArticleGPS: Guaranteed to Produce Screw-ups
An elderly couple sustained minor injuries after crashing into a church in Germany. The elderly driver said his GPS led him astray. This isn’t the first accident involving a malfunctioning GPS. In...
View ArticleOn Jeopardy, Watson demolishes competition. Humanity next?
An IBM supercomputer named Watson is giving two Jeopardy champions a run for their money in a three-day tournament on the popular US quiz show. This isn’t the first time man has met machine in a match...
View ArticleFoxconn to replace workers with 1 million robots
In the battle between iPhone and Android, one man is a guaranteed winner — Terry Guo. Guo’s company Foxconn makes parts for both. However, all is not well at Foxconn. As Guo tries to ramp up...
View ArticleLi Anne: Apple Siri for iPhone 4S
Siri is the voice recognition system exclusive right now for the iPhone 4s. Is it artificial intelligence, or not quite? Siri makes it easier to create texts, emails, or get the latest traffic or...
View ArticleRobot prostitutes could replace humans by 2050
Scientists in New Zealand say brothels staffed by robot prostitutes could be a reality by 2050. In the paper Robots, Men And Sex Tourism, Ian Yeoman and Michelle Mars of the Victoria Management School...
View ArticleRobopocalypse trailer 2014
Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse movie is set to be released in 2014. Robopocalypse is a New York Times bestselling novel by Daniel H. Wilson. The story is about, Archos, a rogue artificial...
View ArticleSpanish Loli-Bot catches creeps!
Catching online predators by posing as children is the method police have relied on for years. Now Spanish researchers say they’ve invented an AI honeypot that sexual predators should find...
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