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 […]
Arabian Business interviews ‘Sophia’ the robot granted citizenship by MbS in 2017. Video interview! https://youtu.be/kxk6OY4lh8A Video: Arabian Business meets Sophia an artificially intelligent (AI) human-like robot Wed 28 Nov 2018 10:31 AM GST Sophia is a social humanoid robot developed by Hanson Robotics. ‘She’ recently moderated a panel […]
Sophia, the Artificial Intelligence robot is coming to Nairobi, Kenya by Kimani Chege. January 29, 2019. TheExchange. Sophia, the social humanoid robot powered by Artificial Intelligence is expected to be in Nairobi for the World Blockchain Summit in March. The robot, developed by South Korean innovation company Hanson Robotics […]
CES 2019: 5G, friendly robots and a lot of artificial intelligence By Heather Kelly and Samuel Burke, CNN Business. Updated 10:18 AM ET, Sun January 6, 2019 (CNN) Robots that keep you company, faster internet on phones, voice controlled everything, and oddball vehicles to replace regular cars. They’re just some of the […]
Saudi Arabian woman held in Bangkok fears she will be killed if repatriated. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun says she was fleeing abusive family when stopped in airport Agence France-Presse. Sun 6 Jan 2019 14.22 EST A Saudi woman being held at a Bangkok airport fears she will be killed if she […]
Symbolism and Prophetic Metaphors. Images of foreshadowing. Snake = the devil, Satan, the serpent, evil. Extended arm and hand = Satan offering or ‘holding out’ the forbidden fruit with a lie ‘to be as gods’. Apple = fruit of temptation offered by evil in the garden of eden. […]
Blog note. It’s coming … it’s almost here (not worldwide…yet). All it will take in the next couple of years is for biometric scanners and an appropriate biometric marker on the hand or forehead … and you will be able to buy and sell (in that you are […]
Blog note: Great… if I live in the Middle East, I can now expect judgement from an artificial, man-made drone with a fancy algorithm making decisions about me? Lovely (sarcasm). Everyone who wants to see this come to their neighborhoods, raise their hands! I thought so, I don’t […]
