This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 11th)

ROBOTICS: Vyo Is a Fascinating and Unique Take on Social Domestic Robots Evan Ackerman IEEE Spectrum "Vyo is'a personal assistant serving as a centralized interface for smart home devices.' Nothing new there, but what sets Vyo apart is how you interact with it: it combines non-anthropomorphic design with anthropomorphic expressiveness and a tactile object-based control system into a social robot that's totally, adorably different." ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: The AI Machines Undergoing Behavioral Psychology Tests Technology Review "The team says the best performing AI system uses deep reinforcement learning enhanced with additional memory. These machines retrieve relevant memories based on the context in which they were stored and in which the device finds itself. That's different from many existing memory systems that do not rely on context for memory retrieval." INTERNET: A Computer Tried (and Failed) to Write This Article Adrienne Lafrance The Atlantic "Here I am, a human, writing a story that was assigned to a machine.