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Could This Be The Beginning of the AI Revolution?

A devious device looking suspiciously like the pain box from Dune — or a minimalist sculpture from the '60s — is now selling on eBay. In fact, that's all it does. This robot sells itself on eBay every week. More »

01/25/10

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By Scott Timberg

#quoteoftheday

AI Expert Says We Should Welcome An Economic Takeover By Robots

11/06/09

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#triviagasm

10 Reasons Not to Bring Someone Back from the Dead

When you've got amazing technologies or strong magical powers, death doesn't have to have the final word. But is bringing the dead back to life always a good idea? We look the reasons it's better to say no to resurrection. More »

10/06/09

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By Lauren Davis

#artificialintelligence

First-Person Shooters Get Their Own Turing Test

In a twist on the traditional Turing Test, BotPrize asked contestants to program a bot that could play Unreal Tournament 2004 with all the imperfections and trash talk of a real player. See if you can tell human from bot. More »

09/10/09

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By Lauren Davis

#supermarioskynet

The Bar For AI Gets Lowered

Once upon a time, we hoped for robots that could beat humans at cultured, highbrow games like chess. But as society falters and falls around us, it's another game that we hope our robot overlords will master: Super Mario Bros. More »

08/06/09

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By Graeme McMillan

#crapfuturism

We're Only 16 Years Away From Creating Actual Cylons

05/21/09

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#bookreview

The Brightest Artificial Minds Are Fragmentary, And Often Female

02/03/09

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#militarytech

Quantum Ghosts and Other Bizarre Military Research

11/06/08

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#madscience

A Computer Program That is Pure Evil

A group of scientists is building the world’s most evil computer program. This isn't a B-movie setup: A team at Rensselaer Institute’s AI & Reasoning Lab is bringing personified evil to virtual life in the hope that they'll unlock the secrets of human morality. The researchers have given their creation a face and a name, and quiz it daily, using its answers to further blacken its hideous character. More »

10/27/08

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By Lauren Davis

#rant

Google is NOT Making us STUPID

06/19/08

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#madrobotics

How To Train Your Robot To Recognize You

05/15/08

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#artificialintelligence

At Last We Have Artificially Intelligent Puppies

03/24/08

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#todolistsforfuturists

How to Create Artificial Intelligence in Your Spare Time

One of the most popular futurist hobbyhorses is the idea that artificially intelligent machines will soon become ubiquitous and change the world forever. This is an old dream, which may have started with Isaac Asimov's idea that superintelligent computers would take over the geo-political management of Earth (see the final story in I, Robot) and create a more rational world. Early computer geeks like Alan Turing imagined that AI would simply be a perfected human brain, sentient but far more powerful and capable of solving problems humans can't. Most scientists and futurists agree that true AI has the potential to create a better world, but what can you put on your to-do list today that will help make AI a reality in fifty years? Actually, there's quite a lot. More »

03/18/08

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By Annalee Newitz

#pinnochiobots

The Greatest Pinnochio-Bot Of All Time

When Summer Glau's Terminator started ballet dancing for no particular reason in a recent episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, it totally made sense: She's just another android/robot who wants to be human. Like the guy in this classic Johnnie Walker Scotch ad. It's like the fourth rule of robotics: The more autistic and socially clueless an android is, the more he/she/it will crave humanity. Click through to see clips of the greatest Pinnochio-bot of all time, plus a gallery. More »

03/07/08

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By Charlie Jane Anders

#sexrobots

Hottest Sex Robots Of Science Fiction

Reiko is a pleasure bot, designed to go out and collect sexual experiences for her corporate masters to sell as virtual reality recordings, in the cyber-porn movie I.K.U. She goes to sex raves and transforms from android to human form. Or she hangs out in a glowing pink web, spangled with dildos. Some of the coolest robots in science fiction are designed only for carnal pleasure. We have a roundup, with sexy but work-safe images and one clip, after the jump. More »

01/15/08

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By charliejane

#iamlegend

Movies That Smash the Statue of Liberty

A trailer for the upcoming movie I Am Legend shows Will Smith and his canine buddy wandering an entirely empty New York City. But that's nothing new. Hollywood has always loved to show one of the most bustling cities on the planet smashed to hell and emptied of human life. Check out our list of movies that crush New York under their boots. Special bonus: click through our gallery featuring emptied-out NY, with many mangled Statues of Liberty. More »

12/11/07

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By Kevin Kelly

#newsblast