Magic Leap’s new AI assistant looks alarmingly human By Matt McFarland, CNN Business (CNN Business)The tech world’s latest virtual assistant looks so realistic, you might mistake her for an actual human. Apple has Siri, and Amazon has Alexa. But the lifelikeness of both are dwarfed by Mica: a prototype that Magic […]
Middle East countries attract over $21bn foreign investment in AI, robotics. Dubai has attracted more than $21 billion of foreign direct investment (FDI) for artificial intelligence and robotics project between 2015 and 2018. Dubai ranked first globally in attracting FDI for AI, with the most coming from the […]
Israel’s Roboteam to Supply Robots to Italian Military Police by Meir Orbach / CTech MARCH 6, 2019 11:07 AM CTech – Israeli defense robotics company Robo-Team (known as Roboteam) announced Wednesday it won a $10 million bid to supply robots to the Arma dei Carabinieri, Italy’s military police force. […]
https://youtu.be/TGMeZQTkW2Y https://youtu.be/TGMeZQTkW2Y “I’d like to think I will be a famous robot, having paved a way to a more harmonious future between robots and humans. I foresee massive and unimaginable change in the future. Either creativity will rain on us, inventing machines spiralling into transcendental super intelligence […]
Trump urges U.S. telecommunications companies to step up 5G systems. Intel says its 5G modem chips will not appear in phones until 2020 Reuters•February 21, 2019 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday called on U.S. telecommunications companies to boost their work to build faster 5G […]
China has unveiled its ‘first female AI news anchor’. A fake human image that speaks. Joins two ‘male’ A.I. news anchors. Named Xin Xiaomeng, the perfectly coiffed broadcaster is the newest addition to Xinhua’s two male AI presenters. https://twitter.com/i/status/1098173090448629760 https://twitter.com/i/status/1098221286491271168 In news that journalists around the world are […]
Future Now: Samsung unveiled a 5G phone but the network has a long way to go By Ahiza Garcia and Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Updated 8:25 PM ET, Wed February 20, 2019 San Francisco (CNN Business) Samsung announced on Wednesday its first ever 5G smartphone: the Galaxy S10 5G. It’s the first […]
India Just Swore in Its First Robot Police Officer RoboCop, meet KP-Bot. Futurism.com. February 20, 2019 RoboCop India just swore in its first robotic police officer, which is named KP-Bot. The animatronic-looking machine was granted the rank of sub-inspector on Tuesday, and it will operate the front desk of Thiruvananthapuram […]
Could an artificial intelligence be considered a person under the law? October 5, 2018 6.42am EDT Humans aren’t the only people in society – at least according to the law. In the U.S., corporations have been given rights of free speech and religion. Some natural features also have person-like rights. But both […]
Egypt plans to emulate Saudi Arabia with copycat robot citizen Arab world’s most populous nation is building its own version of Sophia, the robot that was granted Saudi citizenship Arabian Business. 2018 Egypt’s labyrinthine bureaucracy is tiptoeing into the 21st century. The Arab world’s most populous nation is […]
