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Mar 17, 2017
How Artificial Intelligence and the robotic revolution will change the workplace of tomorrow
Posted by Alireza Mokri in categories: biotech/medical, economics, education, employment, finance, habitats, law, robotics/AI
The workplace is going to look drastically different ten years from now. The coming of the Second Machine Age is quickly bringing massive changes along with it. Manual jobs, such as lorry driving or house building are being replaced by robotic automation, and accountants, lawyers, doctors and financial advisers are being supplemented and replaced by high level artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
So what do we need to learn today about the jobs of tomorrow? Two things are clear. The robots and computers of the future will be based on a degree of complexity that will be impossible to teach to the general population in a few short years of compulsory education. And some of the most important skills people will need to work with robots will not be the things they learn in computing class.
Mar 17, 2017
CUBAN: The robots are coming
Posted by Alireza Mokri in categories: employment, robotics/AI
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban’s prediction for the future of the workforce includes more robots and less human workers.
“We’re about to go into a period with artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, those things where we literally are going to see a change in the nature of employment,” Cuban said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper.
In that same interview, he criticized President Trump’s leadership skills before calling Trump “technologically illiterate.”
Mar 17, 2017
Universities dive into VR research — By Benny Evangelista | SFGate
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: virtual reality
““I see a much larger opportunity for collaboration, not just between the universities, but between the universities and the industry.””
Mar 17, 2017
How VR will drive storage — or the reverse — By Robin Harris | ZDNet
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: hardware, virtual reality
“While most people focus on the compute and graphics requirements for virtual reality, storage is the bigger problem going forward.”
Mar 17, 2017
Ethereum Price Tops $30 to Set New All-Time High
Posted by Alireza Mokri in category: cryptocurrencies
Mar 17, 2017
Crispr Webinar: Using Synthetic Crispr libraries
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: biotech/medical
For people interested or working on Crispr related stuff.
*Benefits of performing arrayed CRISPR RNA (crRNA) screening.
*How to setup a successful arrayed crRNA screen.
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Mar 17, 2017
Dubai to launch driverless flying taxi service
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: drones, robotics/AI
Mar 17, 2017
Scattered thoughts on self-awareness and AI
Posted by Nicola Bagalà in categories: ethics, robotics/AI
A few ideas on self-awareness and self-aware AIs.
I’ve always been a fan of androids as intended in Star Trek. More generally, I think the idea of an artificial intelligence with whom you can talk and to whom you can teach things is really cool. I admit it is just a little bit weird that I find the idea of teaching things to small children absolutely unattractive while finding thrilling the idea of doing the same to a machine, but that’s just the way it is for me. (I suppose the fact a machine is unlikely to cry during the night and need to have its diaper changed every few hours might well be a factor at play here.)
Improvements in the field of AI are pretty much commonplace these days, though we’re not yet at the point where we could be talking to a machine in natural language and be unable to tell the difference with a human. I used to take for granted that, one day, we would have androids who are self-aware and have emotions, exactly like people, with all the advantages of being a machine—such as mental multitasking, large computational power, and more efficient memory. While I still like the idea, nowadays I wonder if it is actually a feasible or sensible one.
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