1363 Results From "automation"

According to Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, crewed missions to Mars and hyped-up chatter of settling the planet are all a waste of time and money.
Mars

Apollo Astronaut: It Would Be “Stupid” to Send People to Mars

3d printed glucose monitors could make health monitoring simpler
3D Printing

3D-Printed Glucose Sensors Could Cut Costs for People With Diabetes

If Artificial Intelligence Only Benefits a Select Few, Everyone Loses
Artificial Intelligence

If Artificial Intelligence Only Benefits a Select Few, Everyone Loses

People Are Refusing to Use Self-Checkout Because It’ll “Kill Jobs”
Future Society

People Are Refusing to Use Self-Checkout Because It’ll “Kill Jobs”

Ford, Walmart, and Postmates have teamed up to develop a service in which self-driving cars deliver goods right to customers homes.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Ford and Walmart Want Self-Driving Cars to Deliver Your Groceries

An AI created by Stanford transformed typical Christmas leftovers into new recipes, which the BBC then cooked up and tasted so you don't have to.
Artificial Intelligence

AIs Whip Christmas Leftovers Into Loathsome New Recipes

As more AI research is shared with the public, more hobbyists are picking it up and building algorithms to help them with everyday life
Artificial Intelligence

How a Neural Network Runs a Family-Owned Japanese Dry Cleaner

What’s It Like Working Alongside Automation? How Walmart’s New Robots “Fit In”
Robotics

What’s It Like Working Alongside Automation? How Walmart’s New Robots “Fit In”

Situations like this are known to AI researchers as "adversarial examples" or "weird events" and they present a big challenge for the future of machines.
Artificial Intelligence

How “Weird Events” Can Trick AI Into Hallucinating

In the future, sex workers in urban areas could operate out of autonomous vehicles, according to a new report by UK academics.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Joy Ride: Experts Say Future Sex Work Could Happen in Autonomous Cars

Pest control may soon take the form of a system of satellites, working with computer models, to forewarn farmers of potential pest problems.
Future Society

How Satellites Are Warning African Farmers About Pest Invasions

Chinese state media agency Xinhua just revealed the world's first "AI anchor." But it's not going to fool anybody.
Artificial Intelligence

Meet The World’s First AI News Anchor

A new machine learning algorithm built by 20th Century Fox can compare movie trailers and predict which films will appeal to an audience.
Machine Learning

Fox is Using Machine Learning to Predict Which Movies Will be Hits

Uber's AI lab just developed a reinforcement learning system that can learn from its mistakes. Now it can beat video games that always had AI stumped.
Artificial Intelligence

Humans Teamed up With a New Kind of AI to Crush a Notoriously Difficult Video Game

Researchers from Ghent University have figured out a way to store data in a powder, and it could help us move away from magnetic storage solutions.
Chemistry

We Can Now Store Data in the Form of a Powder

DARPA spent $68 million over two years on deepfake-spotting AI. It's making progress, but the government might be fighting a losing battle.
DARPA

DARPA Spent $68 Million on Technology to Spot Deepfakes

patent ford autonomous vehicle artificial intelligence police
Artificial Intelligence

Ford Makes Plans for an Automated Police Car That Takes the Law Into Its Own Hands

Federal research into universal basic income shows that regular cash payments don't reduce employment at all. In fact, it seems to help.
Universal Basic Income

A New Study Shows Basic Income Doesn’t Deter People From Working

IBM and food developer McCormick & Co developed a new AI platform that can create new foods better and faster than human experts.
Food

AI Trained on Decades of Food Research Is Making Brand-New Foods

An asrtist's rendering of NASA's Phoenix lander flexing its robotic arm.
NASA

Here’s How NASA Dreams up Robotic Arms for Landers