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al_semenchenko

Доверие к роботам оказалось сильнее здравого смысла - 0 views

  • в чрезвычайных ситуациях люди слишком сильно доверяют роботам. Причем доверие сохраняется, даже если робот совершает ошибки и дает нелогичные указания.
  • 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.
  • По мнению ученых, робот мог стать «авторитетом» для испытуемых из-за давления обстоятельств.
alexbelov

CableRobot Simulator Brings Real Movement to Virtual Reality | Virtual Reality Times - 0 views

  • Called the CableRobot simulator, it comprises of a platform that is safely tucked inside a fiber roll cage, which is made of very lightweight carbon. The platform can seat a single person with or without a VR headset.
  • ts initial target use is mainly for industries, but VR enthusiasts are hopeful that the CableRobot simulator will be developed to adopt video games such as racing games which demands physical movements in order to provide a realistic gaming experience in VR.
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    A robot that simulates motion for VR environment and can create acceleration up to 1.5g in response to VR experience. Potentially useful for research training, research and gaming.
anna_nelidova

Head tracker knows what you're doing and helps you multitask | New Scientist - 1 views

  • wearable system that tracks human movements to understand what task you’re doing, how difficult it is, and when you switch to something else. His goal is to help us control our multitasking lives
  • Gathering patterns of data that describe humans doing different tasks has more potential than just helping us work more efficiently.
  • the device could turn your phone to silent or deliver only emergency notifications. It could also tell you when you need to take a break
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  • Epps’s team has made a device which straps to a baseball cap that can work out the intensity of a task and when a person switches to another task – just from their head movements.
  • o use the data from wearables to train artificial intelligences.
  • Epps’s team is building a new prototype made from cheap components that can be worn on glasses, which tracks eye movement and speech as well as head motion.
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    A wearable system that tracks head movements could help people to multitask and handle distractions. The data generated by wearables on millions of humans can be useful for learning purposes of robots and AI. 
evgeny lavrov

2050 Demographics Projections | Prediction | Future | Technology | Timeline | Trend | 2... - 0 views

  • the average desktop computer now has the raw processing power equivalent to all of the human brains on Earth combined
  • There is no longer a clear distinction between human and machine intelligence
  • Full immersion VR is now a mainstream phenomenon
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  • Entire new societies have formed in cyberspace
  • By the mid-2050s, traditional Western news corporations no longer exist
  • News gathering, analysis and distribution has fragmented - shifting to millions of creative individuals, bloggers, citizen journalists and small-scale enterprises.
  • Traditional Western TV channels have largely disappeared
  • replaced by unique "personalised" web channels, covering practically any subject or combination of subjects imaginable
  • Debates are now occurring over "synthetic people" entering the population.
evgeny lavrov

Новый подход: искусственный интеллект учат интуиции - 0 views

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    Новый подход: искусственный интеллект учат интуиции
Maria Gurova

The Artificial Intelligence Company You Should Watch ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + commu... - 1 views

  • taking these technologies out of the lab and into people’s everyday lives.
  • we're able to program physical objects to be intelligent, adapt and interact with their surroundings, and to surprise people with what is possible.
  • a video game programmed for the real world, is the first step for us and demonstrates what’s possible with Anki technology.
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  • physical objects to understand the real world and using that information to behave intelligently, we can treat these characters in the physical world as if they were just characters in a video game
  • new category of entertainment that brings these technologies to people in a familiar and fun way
  • a massive opportunity in consumer products to change the way people interact with the physical world around them
  • elements that make video games so engaging and fun and literally program them onto physical characters to make an entertainment experience that has never been possible before.
  • Almost anything we interact with in the physical world has the potential to act with autonomy and purpose, and the challenge is in identifying the truly high-impact opportunities at the right times
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    please also watch the demonstration of the Anki Drive from WWDC - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnsR-kZUx6o
al_semenchenko

Инженеры показали перекресток без светофоров - 1 views

  • Инженеры из лаборатории Senseable Массачусетского технологического института смоделировали городской перекресток, движение на котором регулируется полностью без светофоров.
  • Специальные системы контроля движения, установленные в зданиях на перекрестке, и обмен данными между автомобилями в будущем позволят машина проезжать перекрестки практически без задержек.
  • В городах будущего автомобили будут передавать данные о скорости своего движения и направлении городской инфраструктуре. Учитывая все эти данные система будет передавать автономным машинам команды на небольшое замедление или ускорение, чтобы каждая из них при подъезде к перекрестку попала в свой временной слот и могла без задержек и столкновения с другими проехать его.
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    Автомобили, управляемые компьютером, смогут взаимодействовать со зданиями и другими автомобилями дистанционно, что позволит избавиться от светофоров на перекрестках.
Maria Gurova

Driverless cars, pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for a human being... - 3 views

  • From staff-free ticket offices to students who can learn online, it seems there is no corner of economic life in which people are not being replaced by machines.
  • One of the reasons Google is investing so much is that whoever owns the communications system for driverless cars will own the 21st century's equivalent of the telephone network or money clearing system: this will be a licence to print money.
  • The only new jobs will be in the design and marketing of the cars, and in writing the computer software that will allow them to navigate their journeys, along with the apps for our mobile phones that will help us to use them better
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  • The invention of 3D printing, in which every home or office will be equipped with an in-house printer that can spew out the goods we want – from shoes to pills – anticipates a world of what Summers calls automated "doers". They will do everything for us, eliminating the need for much work.
  • we have come to the end of the great "general purpose technologies" (technologies that transform an entire economy, such as the steam engine, electricity, the car and so on) that changed the world. There are no new transformative technologies to carry us forward, while the old activities are being robotised and automated.
  • Notwithstanding robotisation and automation, I identify four broad areas in which there will be vast job opportunities.The first is in micro-production
  • The second is in human wellbeing. There will be vast growth in advising, coaching, caring, mentoring, doctoring, nursing, teaching and generally enhancing capabilities.
  • The third is in addressing the globe's "wicked issues" . There will be new forms of nutrition and carbon-efficient energy, along with economising with water, to meet the demands of a world population of 9 billion in 2050.
  • And fourthly, digital and big data management will foster whole new industries
  • the truth is, nobody knows. What we do know is that two-thirds of what we consume today was not invented 25 years ago. It will be the same again in a generation's time
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    demand for the new expertise may impact not only the school and academic education, but earlier development stages
alexbelov

The 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution | World Economic F... - 0 views

  • By 2020, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have brought us advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology and genomics. These developments will transform the way we live, and the way we work. Some jobs will disappear, others will grow and jobs that don’t even exist today will become commonplace. What is certain is that the future workforce will need to align its skillset to keep pace.
  • Creativity will become one of the top three skills workers will need.
  • negotiation and flexibility are high on the list of skills
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  • Those working in sales and manufacturing will need new skills, such as technological literacy.
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    Technological change sets new requrements to people as some occupaitons become obsolete and others emerge. Tops skills in the next 5 years are: complex problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, people management, coordinating with others, emotional intelligence, judgement and decision making, service orientation, negotiation, cognitive flexibility.
Maria Gurova

Google: The new GE: Google, everywhere | The Economist - 0 views

  • Its latest purchase is Nest Labs, a maker of sophisticated thermostats and smoke detectors: on January 13th Google said it would pay $3.2 billion in cash for the firm. Google’s biggest move into hardware so far is its $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility
  • With Google’s collection of hardware businesses, the common factor is data: gathering and crunching them, to make physical devices more intelligent.
  • Packed with sensors and software that can, say, detect that the house is empty and turn down the heating, Nest’s connected thermostats generate plenty of data, which the firm captures.
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  • This month Samsung announced a new smart-home computing platform that will let people control washing machines, televisions and other devices it makes from a single app. Microsoft, Apple and Amazon were also tipped to take a lead there, but Google was until now seen as something of a laggard.
  • it is likely to do what it did with driverless cars: take a technology financed by military contracts and adapt it for the consumer market.
Maria Gurova

The Four Things People Can Still Do Better Than Computers | Fast Company | Business + I... - 1 views

  • computers' strengths lie in speed and accuracy, while humans' strengths are all about flexibility
  • There are three types of work that humans do really well but computers cannot (yet):
  • 1) Unstructured problem-solving
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  • 2) Acquiring and processing new information, deciding what is relevant in a flood of undefined phenomena
  • reinvent our education system to prepare children for an "increased emphasis on conceptual understanding and problem-solving"--and to better collaborate with, take care of, and program the computers that are going to continue to be our sidekicks
  • 4) Being human
Vladimir Devyatkin

Surviving the Rise of 'Smart Machines,' the Loss of 'Dream Jobs' and '90% Unemployment' - 0 views

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    Key Issue - How Will Smart Machines Impact Business and IT Function Through the Remainder of This Decade? Digitization Meets the Workforce - Smart Machines Are the Next Major Technology Market Transitional Scenarios - How Smart Machines Will Develop Through 2020 Smart Machines and the Specter of Destructive Creation Societal Crisis Postcrisis, Toward 90% Job Replacement
Irina Marchenko

Robots at school - 0 views

Школьник, находясь дома, просто включает свой компьютер, подключается к роботу и на расстоянии присутствует на уроке, видит и слышит все, что говорит учитель и даже может отвечать на вопросы учителя.

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Maria Gurova

Mattel Unveils ThingMaker, A $300 3D Printer That Lets Kids Make Their Own Toys | TechC... - 0 views

  • Mattel unveiled its new, $300 3D Printer, the “ThingMaker,” which will allow children to print their own toys at home
  • While there are affordably priced 3D printers available today, the software that works with them can sometimes have a learning curve that can hinder adoption. With the new application, live now on iOS and Android, the goal was to make it easy enough for anyone to design their own toys – even younger children
  • The idea isn’t just to print an object and be done, however – instead, kids will print parts that can be assembled to form larger creations, like dolls, robots, dinosaurs, scorpions, skeletons, bracelets or necklaces, for example
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  • This process can take anywhere from 30 minutes for a small item, up to overnight (e.g. 6 6 to 8 hours) for a larger toy
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    Mattel presented a new affordable toy that allows kids to build their own toys at home using a kids-friendly app that is easy to use for a novice and a home 3D printer. The spread of this technology might put pressure on the traditional toy market and create opportunity for IPs owners to allow kids interact with their favorite franchise in the whole new way
al_semenchenko

The NSA's SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people | Ars Technica UK - 1 views

  • In 2014, the former director of both the CIA and NSA proclaimed that "we kill people based on metadata."
  • 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.
  •  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.
  • 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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    Modern technology already relies heavily on AI. AI decides who to kill based on metadata.
alexbelov

Cybathlon - Championship for Cyborgs - 0 views

  • Experience a world première: On Saturday, 8 October 2016 ETH Zurich is organising the very first Cybathlon! Individuals with physical disabilities will compete side by side in six demanding disciplines, using the latest assistive technologies.
  • There are races for athletes with powered arm and leg prostheses, for those wearing a robotic exoskeleton and for powered wheelchairs. There’s also a race for cyclists using electrical muscle stimulation and even a brain-computer interface race.
  • Cybathlon provides a platform for the development of novel assistive technologies that are useful for daily life. Through the organisation of the Cybathlon we want to remove barriers between people with disabilities, the public and technology developers.
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    The first world's olympic games for athletes with disabilities powered by cybernetic prothesis will take place this year in Zurich. It's expected that 80 teams from different countries will participate. The next Cybathlon is planned in Tokyo 2020 during the Summer Olympics.
Oleg Batluk

Алёна Владимирская: при устройстве на работу продавайте опыт, а не возраст | ... - 0 views

  • Лучше других себя чувствуют отрасль информационных технологий и интернет.
  • Работодатели вынуждены это делать, иначе специалистов перекупят иностранные компании. Российский программист за рубежом — такой же бренд, как балалайка или матрёшка.
  • от людей старше 50: на работу их не берут из-за возраста… — Да, в России есть такой стереотип.
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  • Первыми начнут отмирать профессии, которые раньше считались гарантированным куском хлеба.
  • самыми востребованными и дорогими станут специалисты, которые будут придумывать роботов
  • в России до сих пор ценится не уровень экспертизы, а престиж профессии
  • начинать надо с профориентации, которой сегодня в школах почти нет
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    Russia has stereotypes such as "50+ too old to work" and "job's prestige is a key" though Russian programmists are international value
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