Proving we actually live in a B-movie since 2011
If you asked me how artificial intelligence would learn about humans, Skype would not be the first thing to come to mind. But, apparently, that’s exactly how the robot apocalypse will go down. Fair enough. Facebook’s AI lab has designed a bot animation that can mimic human facial expressions through an artificially intelligent algorithm – …
Google’s chief of engineering, Ray Kurzweil, claims that artificial intelligence will irrevocably “change the nature of humanity itself” by the year 2029. How will we get there? Metro breaks it down for us, outlining the steps we can expect to take on our way to electronic doom. Right now, they say, we’re surrounded by what’s …
The robot apocalypse will not happen in a day. First, they’ll invade our kitchens. We’ve already seen these menacing machines chopping noodles in China. Now, it seems they’ve moved on to something even more nefarious – they’re making salads.
Here’s something that slipped by me a few months ago: A group called On-Art Corp in Tokyo unvieled their 8m tall (26 ft) mechanical suit robot dinosaurs back in November. You can check them out in the above video. They’re apparently TRX03 robots with human operators inside (who, as far as I can tell, walk …
A long, long time ago, I remember messing around with a few chatbots I’d randomly downloaded from the Internet. One was named Billy. The other was something like Daisy or Diane. These days, you can just hop over to Cleverbot if you feel like chatting with a not-so-intelligent AI.
So I was just sitting down to write another article about Bigfoot or something when I glanced over at South Korea and – well, you should really see what they’ve got going on over there.
How much do you trust what you see? How about what you hear? Several months ago, I posted about Face2Face, a program that allows for the manipulation of video in real time to change and animate facial expressions. It’s an interesting technology, but also concerning – all you have to do is watch this video …