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shared by Maria Gurova on 23 Oct 15 - No Cached

Humanoid robots are now being introduced into nursing homes, and as therapists, for example. The new Hello Barbie toy will be a "friend" to children, holding conversations with young boys and girls. Robots are even getting married in Japan.
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A perfect example of the backlash against human-like machines happened last Friday, when Adrian David Cheok and David Levy were forced to cancel their second annual Congress on Love and Sex with Robots, set to be held in Malaysia next month.
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The case of the cancelled conference is just the beginning of the kind of obstacles intellectuals and researchers may encounter in the pursuit of academic study of humanoid robotics—an increasingly controversial field as the line between fantasy and reality gets blurred
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shared by al_semenchenko on 19 Feb 16 - No Cached

In 2014, the former director of both the CIA and NSA proclaimed that "we kill people based on metadata."
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According to the documents, SKYNET engages in mass surveillance of Pakistan's mobile phone network, and then uses a machine learning algorithm on the cellular network metadata of 55 million people to try and rate each person's likelihood of being a terrorist.
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 A flaw in how the NSA trains SKYNET's machine learning algorithm to analyse cellular metadata, Ball told Ars, makes the results scientifically unsound.
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In the years that have followed, thousands of innocent people in Pakistan may have been mislabelled as terrorists by that "scientifically unsound" algorithm, possibly resulting in their untimely demise.
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Algorithms increasingly rule our lives. It's a small step from applying SKYNET logic to look for "terrorists" in Pakistan to applying the same logic domestically to look for "drug dealers" or "protesters" or just people who disagree with the state.
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shared by al_semenchenko on 13 May 16 - No Cached

Law firm Baker & Hostetler has announced that they are employing IBM’s AI Ross to handle their bankruptcy practice, which at the moment consists of nearly 50 lawyers.
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Ross, “the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney” built on IBM’s cognitive computer Watson, was designed to read and understand language, postulate hypotheses when asked questions, research, and then generate responses (along with references and citations) to back up its conclusions. Ross also learns from experience, gaining speed and knowledge the more you interact with it.
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“At BakerHostetler, we believe that emerging technologies like cognitive computing and other forms of machine learning can help enhance the services we deliver to our clients.”
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shared by al_semenchenko on 01 Mar 16 - No Cached

в чрезвычайных ситуациях люди слишком сильно доверяют роботам. Причем доверие сохраняется, даже если робот совершает ошибки и дает нелогичные указания.
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Исследователи предполагали, что если робот зарекомендовал себя как ненадежный и совершал ошибки, то добровольцы не будут ему доверять в чрезвычайной ситуации. Однако все без исключения участники эксперимента последовали его инструкциям независимо от того, как хорошо он действовал до этого.
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По мнению ученых, робот мог стать «авторитетом» для испытуемых из-за давления обстоятельств.
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