This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 2) - Singularity HUB

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: How Google Plans to Solve Artificial Intelligence Tom Simonite MIT Technology Review "It's supposed to be just an early checkpoint in an effort Hassabis describes as the Apollo program of artificial intelligence, aimed at "solving intelligence, and then using that to solve everything else"...Hassabis wants to create what he calls general artificial intelligence--something that, like a human, can learn to take on just about any task." ROBOTICS: What Is a Robot? Adrienne LaFrance The Atlantic "What is a robot, anyway? This has become an increasingly difficult question to answer. Yet it's a crucial one...Whether we will end up losing a piece of our humanity because they are here is unknowable today. But such a loss may prove worthwhile in the evolution of our species. In the end, robots may expand what it means to be human. After all, they are machines, but humans are the ones who built them."