Humans and computers are collaborating to create a new genre of ‘synthetic literature’. But how does it work and can a computer ever really be creative?
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US and Japanese tech companies are building fighting megabots to kicktstart what they envisage as a sporting franchise on the scale of Formula 1.
The Industrial Revolution led to centuries of social and economic upheaval. Are economists telling us not to worry about workplace automation because things will be better in a couple hundred years?
As disruptive technology increasingly enters our lives, it demands that we rethink and reorganize all aspects of work, life, and society.
Rather than fret about how many jobs future technologies will destroy, we should focus on how to shape them so that they complement the workforce of tomorrow.
We are witnessing dramatic advances in the deployment of autonomous systems, but are we designing robots that can be trusted?
Robots have the potential to help support a growing population that wants to age in their own homes. But those helpful machines won’t be the humanoid butlers of science fiction.
The unexpected behaviour of even simple bots is only going to get more dramatic as AI scales up.
Australia’s Chief Scientist Alan Finkel says while it’s possible to build robots to take over jobs – including his own – humanity still has the edge over machines.
Asking whether machines can really understand us is meaningless.
Robots have a lot to learn from humans when it comes to memory.
If robots and AI are our future, we need to embrace the technology and work out how best to collaborate and make it work for everyone
Robo-advice might prove most useful to those who need it the most, making them feel more competent and in control.
New laws are needed to keep up with the growing problem of imported child sex dolls and robots.
A glimpse of tomorrow’s world.
Smart machines are about to usher in the age of Industry 4.0.
Artists invented the word ‘robot’, but now robots are becoming artists, or at least assistants, themselves. As robots get smarter, artists will find more and more uses for them, particularly in sculpture.
He spends his days developing artificial intelligence systems. What about AI keeps him up at night?
If companies are using automated software in hiring, then job applicants should be able to use the same technology.
How the idea of a hyper-connected society could quickly go from utopia to dystopia and why neither scenario is likely to last.
Top contributors
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor, Director of the Centre for Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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PhD in machine ethics, University of Canterbury
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Engineering, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Centre for Biomedical Technologies, Queensland University of Technology
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Reader in Autonomous Intelligent Robotics, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Computer Science, Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer in Digital Media and Cultures, The University of Queensland
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Researcher in Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Australian National University
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Associate professor, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Orthopaedic Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Leverhulme Fellow and Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge