This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through July 23rd)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: This Is the Robot Maid Elon Musk Is Funding Will Knight MIT Technology Review "Abbeel's robots learn tasks from scratch, using a neural network that receives sensor input and controls physical movement. The network adjusts its parameters automatically as it inches closer to its goal. A robot might try thousands of grips, for instance, in the process of learning how to hold a certain object." INTERNET & SOCIETY: In the Future You Will Own Nothing and Have Access to Everything Kevin Kelly Boing Boing "The underlying mathematics and physics remain. As we increase dematerialization, decentralization, simultaneity, platforms, and the cloud--as we increase all those at once, access will continue to displace ownership. For most things in daily life, accessing will trump owning...The digital native is free to race ahead and explore the unknown. Accessing rather than owning keeps me agile and fresh, ready for whatever is next."