Guy Hoffman: Robots with "soul" Exponential Technology Literacy: Neil Jacobstein at TEDxSanMigueldeAllende. Exponential Technology Literacy: Neil Jacobstein at TEDxSanMigueldeAllende.
MIT Deploys Swarm of Self-Assembling Robot Cubes. We started to get just a little bit nervous last spring, when Daniela Rus and Kyle Gilpin from MIT introduced something called "smart sand.
" Smart sand was a pile of tiny little robotic cubes endowed with the capability of autonomously replicating any 2D shape that you poured them over. The only reason we're not all robots right now (we're pretty sure we're not, anyway) is that smart sand couldn't move by itself: you had to shake it around a bunch to get it to do anything. For some reason, MIT has decided to remove that safety feature by developing a version of smart sand THAT CAN MOVE ALL BY ITSELF. MIT research scientist John Romanishin has been working on (or at least thinking about) M-Blocks for the past several years, but from the sound of things, everyone thought he was nuts until he managed to actually go make it work. The cubes stick to each other with an arrangement of magnets that encourage them to pivot around edges while sticking to faces.
Technology and the Distribution of Wealth - The Vital Edge. There is a question so important to the modern economy that it often hides in plain view.
I’m talking about the role that technology plays in the distribution of wealth. This connection between our distribution of societal resources and our rapidly evolving technology centers on two fundamental phenomena: Robots en el ejército ruso: alta tecnología en todos los frentes. Can a Robot Do Your "Creative" Job? According to a recent study from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology nearly half of all U.S. jobs could be replaced by computers over the next two decades.
Although the report specifically mentions U.S. jobs, it is fairly safe to assume that this means a significant impact on jobs worldwide. I've talked about this before, and I'm sure that I will again because the emergence of robotics, artificial intelligence and 3D printing could have an economic impact rivaling climate change. The 50 per cent figure in the study may even be a conservative estimate. Oxford Martin suggests a move toward "creative and social intelligence tasks" for low skilled workers: "Our findings imply that as technology races ahead, low-skilled workers will move to tasks that are not susceptible to computerization, i.e., tasks that require creative and social intelligence," the paper states. There is also no reason to believe that all of the jobs replaced will be low-end or unskilled. Es.gizmodo. De hecho, BMW ya está utilizando robots inteligentes que pueden interactuar con sus actuales empleados, lo que indica de de un momento a otro serán quienes llenen las vacantes.
De todas formas, para reemplazar a un médico de diagnósticos, habría que asumir que se puede saber a ciencia cierta siempre qué está afectando al paciente, y muchas veces no es así. Lo que es si es cierto, es que sea como sea, muchos puestos de trabajo serán reemplazados por robots. ¿Es un problema? Depende. Si continuamos con el actual paradigma, por supuesto que sí, pero estoy seguro que como humanidad comenzaremos a desarrollar con mayor profundidad las capacidades que nos hacen quienes somos: La creatividad, el análisis y la innovación.
What does the future look like?
Singularity. Test de Turing. La prueba de Turing.
El test de Turing (o prueba de Turing) es una prueba propuesta por Alan Turing para demostrar la existencia de inteligencia en una máquina. Fue expuesto en 1950 en un artículo (Computing machinery and intelligence) para la revista Mind, y sigue siendo uno de los mejores métodos para los defensores de la Inteligencia Artificial. Se fundamenta en la hipótesis positivista de que, si una máquina se comporta en todos los aspectos como inteligente, entonces debe ser inteligente. Procedimiento[editar] La prueba consiste en un desafío.
Science Fiction. Sympathy for the Luddites. Those weren’t foolish questions.
Mechanization eventually — that is, after a couple of generations — led to a broad rise in British living standards. But it’s far from clear whether typical workers reaped any benefits during the early stages of the Industrial Revolution; many workers were clearly hurt. And often the workers hurt most were those who had, with effort, acquired valuable skills — only to find those skills suddenly devalued. So are we living in another such era? And, if we are, what are we going to do about it? Until recently, the conventional wisdom about the effects of technology on workers was, in a way, comforting. Now, there were always problems with this story. Today, however, a much darker picture of the effects of technology on labor is emerging. I’ve noted before that the nature of rising inequality in America changed around 2000.
And some of those turns may well be sudden. TROM: [3](A) Technology_(1/2) Google Launches Audacious, Disruptive, Internet In The Sky. Lost Technology of Ancient Egypt - Free Energy. Lost Technology of Ancient Egypt - Free Energy. 7 Totally Unexpected Outcomes That Could Follow the Singularity.