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Reading Time: 5 minutes Note by the Publisher: This article is a guest contribution by third year doctoral student Sahaj VAIDYA. In case of interest in collaborating with the author, please feel free to contact her directly. Contact info at...
Reading Time: 11 minutes Can Data Die? From Cyber Immortality to Digital Spiritism. “Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.” In “Death, be not Proud”, a poem by British 16th century metaphysical poet John Donne, there is...
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Brief History of… AI Names With the recent launch of Amazon ASTRO, a quick glance on AI/robot names can be quite entertaining. Human names for #supercomputers, #AI or #humanoid #robots have been an ongoing trend. Previous Next There is IBM’s Watson....
Reading Time: 10 minutes The robots Sophia, Ai-da, Erica and other gynoids Female robots, gynoids, fembots : on a mission to soften the sharp metallic edges University of Oxford, Cambridge 2019. The artist is addressing the crowd while looking at...
Reading Time: 7 minutes The “uncanny valley” in robotics In 1970, the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori from the Tokyo Institute of Technology coinded the concept of the “uncanny valley”. In robotics, the “uncanny valley” is a hypothesis : “We are...
Reading Time: 6 minutes Isaac Asimov, an American science-fiction author, invented the 3 Laws of Robotics for one of his futuristic short stories from I, Robot (1950). The term "robot" is borrowed from the Czech science-fiction author Havel Čapek.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Stupor by Jimmy Fellon. “Why did you develop this thing?” A symptomatic question from anyone who is not part of the hype world of Cheetah, Sophia and alike. Just to show you that the...