Has AI Taken Over the World? It Already Has

Has AI Taken Over the World? It Already Has

In 2019, a imaginative and prescient struck me—a future the place synthetic intelligence (AI), accelerating at an unimaginable tempo, would weave itself into each side of our lives. After studying Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Close to, I used to be captivated by the inescapable trajectory of exponential development. The long run wasn’t simply on…

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Making life friendlier with private robots

Making life friendlier with private robots

Sharifa Alghowinem, a analysis scientist within the Media Lab’s Private Robots Group, poses with Jibo, a pleasant robotic companion developed by Professor Cynthia Breazeal. Credit: Gretchen Ertl By Dorothy Hanna | Division of Mechanical Engineering “As a toddler, I needed for a robotic that may clarify others’ feelings to me” says Sharifa Alghowinem, a analysis…

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