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How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and work
From the UK to the UAE, China and the USA, governments are putting serious money and resources behind efforts to corner the artificial intelligence (AI) market. China recently published its AI strategy, which boldly declared that within a decade AI will become "the main driving force for China's industrial …
Artificial Intelligence and Video Production - Will it Replace Humans?
Without question, the way creative professionals "create" is evolving at a rapid pace. Now, the rise of Artificial Intelligence promises much more in the very near future. If you are a creative in either the film or video production industries, this may well be the most important podcast you will listen to this year. Artificial intelligence will have a profound impact on how you do your work over the next decade. Machines will not replace humans, at least not in the near term, but they will become very active creative partners.
'Star Wars' Robots Wouldn't Survive the Real World
The new monthly column by Texas A&M University roboticist Robin Murphy took as its first subject the beloved droids R2-D2 and BB-8, rolling robots that play a major role in "Star Wars." Murphy asked Dan Goldman, a physicist at Georgia Tech, whether a spherical robot like BB-8 would be able to move around over rough terrain like sand -- and "he just started giggling hysterically," Murphy told Space.com. Goldman described buying one of Sphero's remote-control BB-8 toys as soon as the movie came out, to set up in his lab and test robot locomotion over a variety of granular materials. "They run sand[fish] lizards through there, they run snakes, salamanders, the whole thing," Murphy said, referring to types of moving robots. "And they put BB-8 in there, and they gave it a little ramp with plywood, and it rolled in, and then -- thwump! Just buried itself into the sand. And then they tried it again -- it was a repeatable experiment. The only variation would be that occasionally it would stop so suddenly the head would fly off, which is kind of fun." "There's a reason you don't see a lot of animals with wheels," Murphy said.