1363 Results From "automation"

A group of engineers figured out a way to fool AI surveillance systems with the help of a little colorful patch you can hang around your neck.
Artificial Intelligence

This Colorful Picture is Like an Invisibility Cloak for AI

Andrew Yang’s Goal: Steer Us Away From a Bleakly Dystopian Future
Universal Basic Income

Andrew Yang’s Goal: Steer Us Away From a Bleakly Dystopian Future

Experts tell CNN they envision a future in which scammers use voice-mimicking technology to make robocalls sound like someone a target knows personally.
Artificial Intelligence

Prepare for Robocall Hell, Where Scam Bots Pretend to Be Your Mom

Toyota's basketball-playing robot, Cue 3, isn't about to replace athletes, but it does herald a new era of incredibly-precise machinery.
Robotics

Toyota’s Basketball Robot Can Nail Three-Pointers

U.S. Prisons Are Covertly Gathering Inmates’ Biometric Voice Data
Data Privacy

U.S. Prisons Are Covertly Gathering Inmates’ Biometric Voice Data

Kai-Fu Lee, a venture capitalist who used to develop AI for Google and Microsoft, predicts that AI will automate 40 percent of the world's jobs in 15 years.
Google

Former Google Exec: AI Will Replace 40 Percent of Jobs in 15 Years

A mining corporation says an autonomous rail system it's been developing in Australia is fully operational, making it the "world's largest robot."
Self-Driving Vehicles

Australian Autonomous Train Is The “World’s Largest Robot”

Finally, a Group of Workers Expected to Benefit From Automation: Women
Future Society

Finally, a Group of Workers Expected to Benefit From Automation: Women

Researchers have developed a voice analysis program that uses artificial intelligence to accurately and objectively diagnose PTSD.
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Can Detect PTSD in Your Voice

A new 100-level platformer game designed by Unity's algorithms will test artificial intelligence systems' problem-solving skills.
Artificial Intelligence

Hellishly Hard New Game Is Specifically Designed to Confound AI

A tool called Clear My Record has automated the process of removing cannabis convictions from criminal records in California.
Future Society

Calif. Uses Algorithm to Scrub Thousands of Cannabis Convictions

An employee shares his experience working with Walmart robots, which are supposed to make his job easier but instead add to his workload.
Artificial Intelligence

This Grouchy Employee Hates Walmart’s New Floor-Scrubbing Robots

In an interview with CNBC's Making It, billionaire Richard Branson said that three or four day weekends could be a reality for "most people" in the future.
Future Society

Richard Branson: Future of Work Is “Three and Even Four Day Weekends”

According to a new experiment, people find losing to robots and AI particularly demoralizing, which could have implications for our automated workplaces.
Artificial Intelligence

New Research: People Who Get Defeated By AI Feel Horrible

Pilots on board the Lion Air plane that crashed in October "scoured a handbook as they struggled to understand why the jet was lurching downwards."
Boeing

Confused Pilots Were Reading Boeing 737 Handbook as Plane Crashed

Musk Admits Automation At Tesla Factory Was a Bad Idea
Tesla

Musk Admits Automation At Tesla Factory Was a Bad Idea

A California family is outraged that a doctor told their relative he was going to die imminently — via a telepresence robot. 
Robotics

Doctor Tells Man He’s Going to Die via Telepresence Robot

More Robots Means Fewer Seasonal Workers for Amazon This Holiday
Artificial Intelligence

More Robots Means Fewer Seasonal Workers for Amazon This Holiday

Robot Showboat: Now Even Our Celeb Feuds Are Automated
Artificial Intelligence

Robot Showboat: Now Even Our Celeb Feuds Are Automated

A former chief technology officer for the Israeli government warned that artificial intelligence could lead to a tragedy "worse than 9/11."
Artificial Intelligence

Former Israeli Tech Chief: AI Could Cause Tragedy “Worse Than 9/11”