Tag: robots
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Artificial intelligence experts sign open letter to protect humanity from robot overlords
I’ve seen way to many films to ever think robots and AI are a good idea, looking back at Terminator, Battlestar Galactica, iRobot and many others, it’s not hard to find media showing the world being destroyed by man-made AI we couldn’t control. I am not alone in this the Future of Life Institute wants…
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XBox 720 appears in Hugh Jackman robot flick Real Steel
Has Microsoft slipped in a teaser for the anticipated and as yet unannounced successor to it’s Xbox 360 into new Hugh Jackman movie? An Xbox 720 logo has been spotted in the trailer for the new sci-fi/robot boxing story – but is Microsoft having a little joke at our expense or is the footage in Real Steel…
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Apple’s Taiwanese tech contractor to replace workers with robots
The Taiwanese company behind much of Apple’s iPad and iPhone tech has revealed that it’s to replace thousands of its manual labour with machine workers in the next three years. Foxconn is a secretive tech manufacturing contractor which currently ”employs” ten thousand robots in tasks such as parts assembly and spraying, and this number will be upped…