By: Jeremy Hsu See original post here. Could AI soon write your favourite Hollywood film or streaming show? That concern is one of the issues driving
By: Kit Heren See original post here. The cost-cutting came as the company reported a 12% drop in annual profits on Thursday. A “big chunk”
By: Scott Rosenberg See original post here. The AI boom is built on data, the data comes from the internet, and the internet came from us. Driving
By: Jennifer Elias See original post here. Key points: Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said “every product of every company” will be impacted by the quick
By: ANDREW V. KENNEDY See original post here. For the better part of the last 15 years, I’ve worked in what some might call the
By: Javed Anwer In the late 1920s, times were hard and the Great Recession shadowed everything. There was a feeling of doom and gloom with
By: The Editorial Board There’s a scene in the movie I, Robot where a robot-hating police officer, played by Will Smith, is questioning the manufacturer
By: Zoe Kleinman. See original post here. It says its new model, the Apollo RT6, has the the road skills of a driver with 20
By: JEREMY KAHN Read full original here. The creation and editing of photorealistic digital images is about to get much easier. OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial
In warehouses, call centers, and other sectors, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they’re making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous On conference stages and
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 The following post is the second in a two-part series on the impact of robots on the workplace and the labor
The study, released Tuesday, shows technological advancements affect the genders nearly evenly. That finding upends the notion that automation hits predominantly male manufacturing workers the hardest.
If you’re an optimist about the robotic future, you likely hear talk that we’re all going to lose our jobs or suffer a big pay
In this very lengthy and incredibly thought-provoking think-piece, Vi Hart, former researcher at YC Research and current researcher at Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, dives
When Canadian researchers Evelyn Forget and Marni Brownell speak at Stanford University next Tuesday, May 21, they’ll be wading into a debate over one of
Walmart this morning unveiled a new “store of the future” and test grounds for emerging technologies, including AI-enabled cameras and interactive displays. The store, a
The robots are coming, and they’re bearing pizzas – or soon will be. In a pilot program that could begin this summer, FedEx has teamed
Robert Schiller is one of the most well-known economists in the world. In the past, he has made bold predictions about the economy. He has
(An alternate version of this article was originally published in the Boston Globe) On December 2nd, 1942, a team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi
This week, former U.S. President Barack Obama tentatively endorsed the idea of a universal basic income. The fortune of another American, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos,
Universal or Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) is not a new idea. In fact, it is a concept that goes back hundreds of years. From Thomas
