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Robots are taking over the world. Sure, you've heard that before. You even remember the Twilight Zone episode that warned us about it 60 years ago. One android recently published a novel. At Café X, in San Francisco, robot baristas make and serve coffee, and another California restaurant chain, Caliburger, is trying out a robot that can flip 2,000 burgers a day.

Artificial intelligence has the power to change the world -- and it, as it advances from useful to essential, then from essential to mandatory and finally from mandatory to directive. "Machines will tell us what to do," warns entrepreneur and author Bill Bishop. Gillian K. Hadfield, the director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, agrees AI will present new problems but is confident society will be bold and come up with new ideas for regulating AI. To paraphrase Tolstoy, all nice, helpful robots are alike, but all dangerous robots are dangerous in their own unique way. In this debate, I will show that we need to fear the dangerous robots (AIs), not by acting like paranoid Luddites, but to ensure we fear AIs enough to pay attention to potential threats, and to take proactive steps to mitigate them.

It is the voice-activated device that it supposed to make it simple to play music, check the weather or order a takeaway. But things weren't quite so straightforward for one Amazon Echo owner – after an advert for the smart speaker triggered their own device and left them with an unwanted order for cat food. The owner complained to the advertising regulator about the'socially irresponsible' advert, which was shown on television screens on October 5. The advert demonstrated various people using the Amazon Echo device – which is voiced by an'intelligent personal assistant' known as Alexa. At one point in the advert, a man's voice says: 'Alexa, re-order Purina cat food,' to which the virtual assistant replied: 'I've found Purina cat food.

Advertising watchdog rejects Echo Dot owner's complaint that TV spot was irresponsible An Amazon Echo owner has tried to get a television advertising campaign for the smart speaker banned after the Alexa virtual assistant attempted to order cat food when it heard its name on an ad. An Amazon TV ad for the Echo Dot, which can perform functions such as make shopping lists and play music with voice commands, features people using the device in different situations. In one a man's voice says: "Alexa, reorder Purina cat food." Alexa responds: "I've found Purina cat food. Would you like to buy it?" A viewer lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), saying that the ad was irresponsible because it caused their Echo Dot to order cat food.

The rapid pace at which artificial intelligence (AI) is growing results in heated debates over the technology's potential threats as well as its opportunities. Some, including global leaders like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, predict the worst-- the dominance of AI over humanity--and insist on the necessity of more control over the development of AI. Others, however, focus on the business opportunities associated with AI, including expansion of research and understanding beyond the limitations of human computational power. Supporters point to the increased speed of breakthroughs in all kinds of fields from cancer research to shipping optimization. Naturally, this tech shift will result in some people losing jobs to machines.

The rapid pace at which artificial intelligence (AI) is growing results in heated debates over the technology's potential threats as well as its opportunities. Some, including global leaders like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, predict the worst-- the dominance of AI over humanity--and insist on the necessity of more control over the development of AI. Others, however, focus on the business opportunities associated with AI, including expansion of research and understanding beyond the limitations of human computational power. Supporters point to the increased speed of breakthroughs in all kinds of fields from cancer research to shipping optimization. Naturally, this tech shift will result in some people losing jobs to machines.

Summary: For your holiday reading we present this selection of robot and AI fails. We hope this brings you hope and cheer for the coming year to know that our robot overlords are not as close as some think. For your holiday reading we present this selection of robot and AI fails. We hope this brings you hope and cheer for the coming year to know that our robot overlords are not as close as some think. Alas, it seems we've got a few more years before the robots take over.

The introduction of voice-activated smart home solutions – like Amazon Echo and Dot, Google Home, and Apple's HomePod – have brought with them the dream of convenient Star Trek-like interfaces where a user's spoken wish is their command. But at the same time, these devices have served as a Trojan Horse, increasingly inviting in security issues and unintended consequences. The greatest security vulnerabilities created by these products are due to the fact that, while they prominently feature advanced voice recognition, they cannot really tell who's talking. The dangers this presents are compounded when the devices feature the ability to make purchases (with few safeguards under default settings), as well as control smart home features (lights, thermostats, locks, etc.) that users do not want malicious actors to be able to manipulate. These factors have contributed to a number of actual events, which land somewhere between fascinating and frightening as to the level of harm they represent – but all should certainly provoke concern.

Connected technologies are invading our lives more and more fully with each passing day. We may not even notice how natural it's become to ask Siri or Alexa or Google to interpret more of our human experience, and expect our cars to respond to the rules of the road fast enough to keep our hides intact. Some of us are still bothered by technologies such as public cameras feeding images to facial recognition software, but plenty aren't. At this point, it's easy to laugh at a lot of AI failures because on balance they're mostly funny (just forget about the potential for fatal outcomes). Well, we think as the machines march on, and as malware continues to evolve, that will shift.