Brainy, Yes, But Far From Handy

2006: Mako surgical (founder: roboticist Rony Abovitz) began offering a robot that offers precise haptic feedback to surgeons repairing arthritic knee joints.

Abovitz is now President & CEO of Magic Leap, Inc., whose motto is: "Most people are focused on making machines smarter. Wouldn't it be better if we focused on making people smarter?"

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BRAINY, YES, BUT FAR FROM HANDY
John Markoff
The Financial Express
Sep 7 2014

Robots still lack a critical element— a well-developed sense of touch
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Robotic sex partners could be a reality by 2025: Study

Reduction of human trafficking would be positive, but at what cost?

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Robotic sex partners could be a reality by 2025: Study

Deccan Chronicle
Aug 17 2014

Washington, Aug. 16: Robotic sex partners will become commonplace by 2025, says a report that looks at how continuing improvements to artificial intelligence and robotics will impact society. The 66-page report also focuses on how robotics will impact...
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Tech’s great leap rooted in Chicago

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Tech's great leap rooted in Chicago
Phil Rosenthal
Chicago Tribune
Aug 13 2014

So now we know what the Next Big Thing is that Dag Kittlaus, the Chicago area visionary who helped give the world Siri, has been working on for close to two years. It's Viv, an artificial intelligence system that has the potential to become the...
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Frankenstein dilemma not yet upon us

Nice summary of some classic positions in an important debate. 

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Frankenstein dilemma not yet upon us

Manawatu Standard
Aug 11 2014

The anguish of Frankenstein's creature is terribly recognisable. Offended by his creator's rejection, the literate and articulate monster pleads for a girlfriend but Dr Frankenstein stops work when he realises that he might be creating a breed of...
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IBM to spend $3b on new chip

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IBM to spend $3b on new chip
REUTERS WASHINGTON, JULY 10
The Kathmandu Post
Jul 11 2014

IBM announced on Wednesday it will invest $3 billion over the next five years in chip research and development in hopes of finding a game-changing breakthrough that can help revive its slumping hardware unit. IBM announced the plan a week before its...
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Elon Musk Warns of Terminator-Style Robot Apocalypse

A robot apocalypse is the last thing anyone would expect from green-tech pioneer Elon Musk. After introducing the spectacularly successful and iconic Tesla electric cars and innovations in space travel through his company, SpaceX, he has now brought...[Article] (Epoch Times New York Edition, Wed, 02 Jul 2014, Page B2)

This app spots errors, identifies reliable news

So, we now have (A) software to generate the news articles AND (B) software to review the articles.

The next logical step could be to combine these so the software in (A) writes better articles...

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Washington: A new fact-checking app can catch ‘glitches’ in online news and highlight the most reliable stories for you to read.

Trooclick is a browser plugin, developed by a team in Paris, that alerts you if an article you are reading contains... [article] 

(The Times of India (Mumbai edition), Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Page 11)

IBM’s Watson growing up

Always nice to catch up on Watson, even if it's just a media blip.

Intelligent Augmentation [IA] > Artificial Intelligence [AI] :) Nice one, Dr. Banavar.

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At IBM’s laboratories, the researchers emphasize that their mission in developing “cognitive” computing technology is to build systems that can learn from and interact with people rather than try to replace them. Guruduth S. Banavar, Ph.D., director of... [article] (The Progress-Index, Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Page B8)

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INTELLIGENCE

The Progress-Index
Jun 20 2014
Ever since the computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term artificial intelligence in 1955, the field has gone through cycles of boundless optimism and sobering disillusion. Yet until recently, the supercomputer was the go-to operator of machine......read more...

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Rise of smart machines should mean a better life for all

Capitalism is a process of creative destruction, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter famously put it. Lumbering, seemingly unassailable corporate giants eventually wither, elbowed aside by fresher, hungrier startups, modern technologies disrupt... [article] (The New Zealand Herald, Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Page B17).

Scholar hits on recipe to train robots

An endless video loop of cooking shows could hold the key to robots that can unstack a dishwasher and play Lego with the kids, a New Zealand student of robotics says.

Fulbright scholar Sam CorbettDavies has begun a PhD in artificial intelligence at... [article].

(The New Zealand Herald, Tue, 03 Jun 2014, Page A9)

Facebook Building Major Artificial Intelligence System To Understand Who We Are

Finally, everyone seems to be jumping on board with Artificial Intelligence (besides Financial Engineers).

Major dollars are now being invested here, so we can assume a significant anticipated payoff in the near future. Or, it could be that the payoffs aren't clear yet, but corporate strategists don't want to take a chance on being left out of the game.

What is the catalyst? Who are the champions? Who are the new faces?

I'll be compiling items, investigating the stakes, stakeholders, and other questions in upcoming posts.

Cameron Scott, SingularityHub, "Facebook builds AI system"
Sean Coughlan, BBC News, "Existential Risk as a Global Priority"
Rip Empson, TechCrunch, "Autonomous Driving"
Ben Goertzel, IEET, "Artificial Wisdom"
Terry A. Ward, University of Iowa, "Artificial Intelligence Research: An Evangelical Perspective"
Russell C. Bjork, "Artificial Intelligence and the Soul"
Enrico Coiera, "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: An Introduction"
Jim Hendler (Steven Cherry podcast), IEEE Spectrum, "IBM's Watson Tries to Learn...Everything"
David Selinger, IT BusinessEdge, "Hill Climbing: From Artificial Intelligence to Business Intelligence"
Randall C. O'Reilly, "Biologically Based Computational Models of High-Level Thinking"
James Barat, Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era