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Robot beats "I am not a Robot" Captcha
Deal with it.
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Manufacturing jobs are finally returning to North America...for robots
With emerging-market wages catching up fast, the advantage to offshore manufacturing is dwindling. But automation threatens jobs on every continent.
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We can't see inside Fukushima Daiichi because all our robots keep dying
Tepco, the utility company tasked with overseeing cleanup and waste processing for the former Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, hit another snag this week. Last month, we reported on new findings about Reactor #2 that showed it was far more radioactive inside than previously measured. At the time, we noted that Tepco was working on a new robot that could handle up to 73 sieverts of radiation, but the measured level of 530 sieverts vastly exceeded that tolerance.
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Why no job is safe from the rise of the robots
Hollywood got it wrong. The highly intelligent machines that will be unleashed in the near future won’t be coming for our lives. They’ll be coming for our jobs. Being rendered obsolete by technology has been a concern among the flesh-and-blood set for hundreds of years — cars put many in the horse industry out of work, for example — but the speed and types of recent advances are about to give the issue an exceptional urgency.
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San Francisco talks robot tax
Following the recent advice of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Supervisor Jane Kim called for a hearing Tuesday on imposing a tax on robots and automation. “We are finding that robots have begun to destroy millions of American jobs. The long predicted era of robots and automation replacing human workers has arrived,” Kim said. “We need to ensure that the massive new wealth created by automation is redirected to investing in education and training displaced workers for the jobs of the future.”
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Google exec claims that robots will be ‘as intelligent as people’ within 12 years
Google’s director of engineering believes that robots will be as intelligent as people by 2029 – leading to an event called the technological Singularity. Google’s Ray Kurzweil is a futurist who claims to have an 86% success rate on predictions – having made 147 since the 90s.
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One San Francisco Politician Is Exploring A Tax On Robots
With fears about the job-killing effects of automation growing every day, once unthinkable ideas are starting to get an airing. A universal basic income (UBI)–where the government gives everyone enough money to live on–has lots of supporters, especially in Silicon Valley. And now some prominent individuals are calling for a tax on robots. The thinking: If you make robots more expensive, there will be more public funds to help retrain workers (or pay for that basic income)–and the higher cost might keep some companies from buying robots and quickly tanking the employment rate.
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10 Of The Most Advanced Robots That Look Uncannily Like Humans
Robots are man’s new best friend. From industrial production lines to assisting doctors during surgery, these futuristic automatons have come a long way, thanks to advancements in science and technology. They have also found a place in the military, aiding soldiers in tasks like reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition as well as load-bearing. In recent years, need for affable robots that can interact with humans, and also provide companionship to patients undergoing rehabilitation or the elderly, has lead to the development of a family of humanoid robots that move, talk and behave just like us.
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Robots could wipe out another 6 million retail jobs
Robots have already cost millions of factory jobs across the nation. Next up could be jobs at your local stores. Between 6 million to 7.5 million existing jobs are at risk of being replaced over the course of the next 10 years by some form of automation, according to a new study this week from by financial services firm Cornerstone Capital Group.
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When Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg sound the same dire warning about jobs, it’s time to listen
Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates built billion-dollar technology companies in two very different areas, but they both agree on the biggest threats to American jobs. At his Harvard University commencement speech on Thursday, Facebook FB, +0.11% chief executive Zuckerberg, had some tough words for the Class of 2017. “Our generation will have to deal with tens of millions of jobs replaced by automation like self-driving cars and trucks,” he said, adding, “When our parents graduated, purpose reliably...
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SoftBank Agrees to Buy Robot Maker Boston Dynamics From Google Parent Alphabet
SoftBank Group Corp. is taking over Google parent Alphabet Inc.’s robot dreams, buying Boston Dynamics to pursue a future when more machines intermingle with humans. As part of the transaction with Alphabet, SoftBank also agreed to buy Japanese bipedal robotics company Schaft. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
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It's really hard for robots to pick things up but this one is great at it
While businesses like Amazon are using robots to move things around their factory floors, getting them to identify and then actually pick up awkwardly-shaped objects “remains a difficult challenge” because most everyday objects aren’t uniform.
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Is it unethical to design robots to resemble humans?
Society’s push toward humanizing AI could have the unintended consequence of dehumanizing actual humans.
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Robots That Make 400 Burgers an Hour May Soon Take over Fast Food Restaurants
Next time you go for a burger, it might not be a high school student that takes your order, rather an AI might ask if you want cheese on your patty. Introducing the BurgerBot. Invented by Momentum Machines, the bot is ready to totally change the way we know burgers.
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Robots are preparing to fill 200,000 vacant construction jobs
Automation has long been considered the harbinger of future unemployment, and experts have predicted that the widespread adoption of artificially intelligent (AI) software and smart machines could lead to thousands or even millions of people losing their jobs. However, that may not be the case in the construction industry. In fact, with a growing shortage in labor, it’s one sector that’s particularly well-suited for an automation takeover.
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Why the Robot Takeover of the Economy Is Proceeding Slowly
Vik Singh’s company has powerful artificial intelligence software that helps firms hunt down the best sales leads. Getting somebody to use it -- well, that’s a story that says a lot about the U.S. expansion.
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Give robots an 'ethical black box' to track and explain decisions, say scientists
Robots should be fitted with an “ethical black box” to keep track of their decisions and enable them to explain their actions when accidents happen, researchers say. The need for such a safety measure has become more pressing as robots have spread beyond the controlled environments of industrial production lines to work alongside humans as driverless cars, security guards, carers and customer assistants, they claim.
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Human-AI Fusion: Humanity and AI Will Be Inseparable
Carnegie Mellon University's head of machine learning, Manuela Veloso, talks about the challenge AI robots present for humanity - and what Siri and Alexa might look like in 2021.
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Asimov's Laws Won't Stop Robots from Harming Humans, So We've Developed a Better Solution
Instead of laws to restrict robot behavior, robots should be empowered to pick the best solution for any given scenario
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Where the robots are
Where are the robots, exactly? One answer—if you read the steady flow of doomy articles online — is that automation is everywhere, not just all over the media but (you would have to conclude) thoroughly infiltrating the economy. In that sense, the trend seems omnipresent even as it spawns a kind of free-floating dread amongst the chattering class. Yet, that can’t be right. Almost nothing in today’s economy is evenly distributed, whether it be technology, productivity, output, or inclusive prosperity.
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