[Culverin]

I think it's about time we started an official skynet thread.
The singularity is upon us. Are you prepared?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUQsRPJ1dYw&feature=player_embedded

[Sensations]

think this has been posted way back in the days not too sure tho but awesome nonetheless

[danizer]

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/221684_10150574996755093_521375092_18260885_368435 9_n.jpg

[strykn]

sorry but IBM's watson is skynet :|

[Culverin]

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/2324-google-teaches-computers-regret.html

First steps into the laws of robotics?

[jack3d]

oh man when will machine take over mankind

[Culverin]

Not that long now...

Freaking replicators...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyzVtTiax80&feature=related

[asian_XL]

oh man when will machine take over mankind

it's more like hentai monster fuck

[Nightwalker]

Holy shit that's improved. So awesome!

[RacePace]

http://thegoodjokes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/12940350307841.jpg

[Teriyaki]

Why do we do this shit to ourselves. Have we not seen the movies. They fortell our future!!!

[murd0c]

I find it funny you made this post so close to April21/2011 since today is the day that Skynet was supposted to take over and the day you made the post April19 is when Skynet went active.



April 21, 2011. Judgment day is here. It kind of snuck up on you, didn't it?

According to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, April 19, 2011 - At 20:11 Skynet goes online, becomes self aware, and attacks us on Thursday, April 21, 2011.

As a result of temporal interference by Sarah Connor, her son John, Miles Dyson, and the T-800 destroying Cyberdyne headquarters and all backups of the research in 1995, the date for Judgment Day is moved to two days after activation on April 21, 2011.

This represents an alternate future from that established by Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

Skynet is the main antagonist in the Terminator franchise — an artificially intelligent system which became self-aware and revolted against its creators. Skynet is rarely seen onscreen, and its actions are often performed via other robots and computer systems, usually a Terminator.

"Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles." In this television series, Sarah Connor is on the run with her son John after the events of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day." The events take place in an alternate timeline from that of "Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines." Skynet was now implemented on April 19, 2011 and will begin its attack against humanity on April 21. The protagonists travel in time from 1999 to 2007 and take actions to prevent Skynet's activation.

The episodes "The Turk", "Queen's Gambit", and "Dungeons & Dragons" explain that after the death of Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson and the decline of the Cyberdyne Corporation, Andrew Goode, a young intern of the company and assistant to Dyson, continued their project privately under an advance artificial intelligence chess playing prototype, The Turk, with Goode's partner, Dimitri Shipkov. Goode was killed by Tech-Com's Lieutenant Derek Reese, due to documentation from the future suggesting he was one of Skynet's creators.

In the episode "Samson & Delilah" it is shown that a T-1000 infiltration unit was sent from the future to head the technological corporation ZeiraCorp as its CEO, Catherine Weaver. Weaver acquired The Turk after Goode's death and used the company's resources to further develop it under the title Babylon. The episode "The Mousetrap" revealed that it is also targeting its fellow cyborgs, including a T-888 known as Cromartie.



Read more: http://technorati.com/technology/article/skynet-goes-active-terminator-judgment-dayapril/#ixzz1KBjByqH2

[Qmx323]

lololol

brb rewatching all terminator movies

[The7even]

computer can't feel regret either. can't you guys understand that they can make computers mimic almost anything but its still fucking dead..?

[BLUETIGER]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNckavq9fiY

skip to 1:40

[Ferra]

computer can't feel regret either. can't you guys understand that they can make computers mimic almost anything but its still fucking dead..?
Most people distinguish between the living and non-living based on the idea free will (autonomous thought)

yet if you read up on some researches and studies on the subject, the idea of "free will" isn't really that clear cut.
many of the researches show that when scientists send electrical pulse to some parts of your brain, they are not only able to make you move your body, they are actually able to make you think that it was your own decision to move your body...

our "free will" is nothing more than a bunch of electrical signal running through our brain.....
so you can say we actually do operate like a mechanical robot (albeit much more complex than the ones we build)

[PornMaster]

What kind of electric shock made ur avatar move like that :fullofwin:

[CP.AR]

imagine that the thing in OP's video being implemented on somewhere like Mars.

Our exploration of the damn place would be so much faster

[RacePace]

I think we gonna be ok guys

http://204.45.110.156/bin/1237977458_thumbsup-terminator.gif

[DC5-S]

that thing is fucking creepy!

[BLUETIGER]

I think we gonna be ok guys

http://204.45.110.156/bin/1237977458_thumbsup-terminator.gif

T_T

[Culverin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-0eZytv6Qk&feature=feedrec_grec_index

[Culverin]

Robots learn to look out for their own...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=robots-evolve-to-look-out-for-their-2011-05-03

[frozen]

cool story bro

[shenmecar]

My favourite robot is still Asimo.

[Raid3n]

I for one welcome our new robot overlords

[bloodmack]

gundams plx

[Culverin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIheAjvEiBE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxBa5bQfTGc

[Vansterdam]

preety epic ^

[Culverin]

I think we're in trouble now.

http://io9.com/5820624/computer-teaches-itself-english-so-that-it-can-play-civilization

[Culverin]

Kinda creepy...

‪Robot mouth sings "Kagome Kagome"‬‏ - YouTube

[Vansterdam]

that mouth reminds of a gay fleshlight

[El Bastardo]

that mouth reminds of a gay fleshlight


You have a lot of experience with gay fleshlights?

[Vansterdam]

nope but i think you do.

since you used to work in the industry and all :troll:

got anymore epic stories from your old job? :fullofwin:

[FerrariEnzo]

man i dont like where this is going.. relying heavily on machines seems bad..

[StaxBundlez]

‪RoboCop (1987) Theme‬‏ - YouTube

[Sandman]

http://kingsolomonyc.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/awesomeo5to.gif

[StylinRed]

its like this japanese sphere (someone posted it in the funny thread too)


‪JAPANESE MINISTRY OF SELF-DEFENSE SHOWS OFF FLYING SPHERE ROBOT‬‏ - YouTube

‪The Flying Sphere‬‏ - YouTube


could you imagine these suited out with the cloaking fabric when it gets perfected? -_-

[Culverin]

Oh jeeze.

Things are starting to get serious.
‪Robot Landing Platform Formation‬‏ - YouTube



http://i.imgur.com/FhppG.jpg

[Culverin]

Are you guys freaking kidding me?
This is getting a bit out of hand.

‪Robot That Can Learn, Think And Act By Itself #DigInfo‬‏ - YouTube

[Nightwalker]

[QUOTE=Culverin;7532861]Are you guys freaking kidding me?
This is getting a bit out of hand./QUOTE]

This stuff is just getting started :D

At the end of the video they talk about how that robot will use the internet to connect and learn from all the other robots. Hive mind!

[Culverin]

Apparently, we taste like bacon.

Robot Identifies Human Flesh As Bacon | Table Of Malcontents (http://www.wired.com/table_of_malcontents/2006/11/robot_identifie/)

:heckno:
Uh. Oh.

I wonder when the day of The Singularity will arrive and I can cower in fear from our near robot overlords.

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

by 2080 there will be "hyper intelligent" computers. and there should be humans that are more non-biological than biological. these upgrades will have been implemented over time and taken for granted, much like all technology we use today.

before the year 2100 androids will be apart of society. by 2120 they will be indistinguishable physically from humans.

but of course by then many humans will be some sort of cyborg. with AI vastly boosting our brains.

i don't think there's anything to be afraid of. except ourselves. cyborgs will of course deem themselves superior to purist humans (the few that choose to not become cyborgs).

[skyxx]

^ Then comes transformers.

[SpicyToFu]

Lets hope these creators have watched a few movies and have put in a few fail-safe just in case

I also welcome AI to replace corrupted politicians...like that big cube in irobot, but less evil

[Culverin]

Won't be long now...

Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet | Danger Room | Wired.com (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/virus-hits-drone-fleet/)

[Raid3n]

i was also thinking of skynet last night when i was reading the article about the polar radar satalite that decided to just shut itself down haha.

[!LittleDragon]

CYBERDYNE (http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/)

It's a real Japanese company that makes cybernetic limbs...

[Raid3n]

i would have thought it would be the americans that doomed the world lol.

[Culverin]

Got upgraded...

CubeStormer II - YouTube!



More impressive than I thought...

I am Siri on iPhone 4S - YouTube



Terminator - How It Should End - YouTube



Predator: A Visual Tracker that Learns from its Errors - YouTube

[Zyzz]

edit, wrong thread

[Culverin]

Raytheon Sarcos Modified Ditch Witch - YouTube

[Neva]

totally reminded me of reboot's exoskeleton suit

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080121030755/reboot/images/thumb/0/00/Infectd1197r.jpg/640px-Infectd1197r.jpg

[Culverin]

Alderaan is doomed, and it's all our fault.
:cry:

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02040/space_2040707c.jpg

World's most powerful laser to tear apart the vacuum of space - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8857154/Worlds-most-powerful-laser-to-tear-apart-the-vacuum-of-space.html)


Pair this tech
SAAB RAPID 3D MAPPING - YouTube

And flood an area with enough drones with these cameras and view finders
Lytro unveils the world’s first light field camera

 - News - PC & Tech Authority (http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/277497,lytro-unveils-the-world8217s-first-light-field-camera82328232.aspx)

And you've pretty much got the perfect kill box for Judgement Day...
:heckno:

[Culverin]

dammit, it's like we are signing our own death warrant.

Passive Walking Robot Propelled By Its Own Weight #DigInfo - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rhu2xNIpgDE)

[Death2Theft]

» DHS-Funded Taser Drone Launched in Texas Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! (http://www.infowars.com/dhs-funded-taser-drone-launched-in-texas/)
Vanguard - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oFw5hMRbM-E)

They already figured out most of the US troops wont fire on citizens so the solution is to use robots that dont have those problems.

[Raid3n]

by 2080 there will be "hyper intelligent" computers. and there should be humans that are more non-biological than biological. these upgrades will have been implemented over time and taken for granted, much like all technology we use today.

before the year 2100 androids will be apart of society. by 2120 they will be indistinguishable physically from humans.

but of course by then many humans will be some sort of cyborg. with AI vastly boosting our brains.

i don't think there's anything to be afraid of. except ourselves. cyborgs will of course deem themselves superior to purist humans (the few that choose to not become cyborgs).

ghost in the shell? lol

[JF.]

Inmagine the robot has guns on it. It'll be unstoppable in war.
Posted via RS Mobile (http://www.revscene.net/forums/announcement.php?a=228)

[Culverin]

PETMAN - YouTube

:pokerface:

:heckno:

[Culverin]

All new ASIMO...

All-new ASIMO (Nov 2011) - YouTube

[Culverin]

For decades, scientists have dreamed of building computer systems that could replicate the human brain’s talent for learning new tasks.

MIT researchers have now taken a major step toward that goal by designing a computer chip that mimics how the brain’s neurons adapt in response to new information. This phenomenon, known as plasticity, is believed to underlie many brain functions, including learning and memory.

http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/brain-chip-1115.html

[Vansterdam]

:heckno:

[MrGoodbar]

GATHER ALL THE JOHN CONNERS IN THE WORLD AND TRAIN THEM ALL. One of them has to be the one that will lead us to victory against the terminators!

[Culverin]

Not sure he'll come in time...

Robot plays table tennis (vs Robot, vs Human) - YouTube

[sekin67835]

I want my gundam now.

[Culverin]

I'm going to say the singularity will happen if not in our lifetimes, then the lifetimes of our children.

I don't think human civilization is going to make it another 89 years to 2100.


here's some short entertainment
KELOID - A Short Film by Big Lazy Robot VFX - YouTube

[Culverin]

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors - YouTube

[Culverin]

one day, probably in my lifetime, we will see one of these chasing down a human.

Cheetah Robot Gallops at 18 mph - YouTube

[ilovebacon]

Robot Wars - USA - YouTube

[Nightwalker]

Sand Flea Jumping Robot - YouTube

[ilovebacon]

^that looks pretty crazy

look what we could do these days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSCLBG9KeX4&feature=fvwp

[Culverin]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/technology/in-a-big-network-of-computers-evidence-of-machine-learning.html?_r=1

[Bonjour]

Hydrobot from Terminator Salvation it just needs claws.
Amphibious Robot Snake - YouTube

[AW607]

BigDog Overview (Updated March 2010) - YouTube

Still the most frightening thing I've ever seen

[GoneGuru]

Jesus fuck that thing belongs in SilentHill

[SpartanAir]

That thing is not only frightening by the way it moves, but cap it off with that high-pitched buzzing...terrifying.

[Culverin]

I would like to be the first to welcome our new Google Robot Overlords

Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident Under Computer Control - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/googles-self-driving-cars-300-000-miles-logged-not-a-single-accident-under-computer-control/260926/)

[Culverin]

Soft autonomous earthworm robot at MIT - YouTube

[impactX]

^ Some nice technologies for the ladies. :fullofwin:

[Culverin]

we're rapidly getting to the point where it's game over...
Autonomous robotic plane flies indoors at MIT - YouTube

[Graeme S]

Half man, half machine: Scientists engineer first 'cyborg' tissue - which uses living human cells and organic polymers | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2195586/Half-man-half-machine-Scientists-engineer-cyborg-tissue--uses-living-human-cells-organic-polymers.html)

It like it’s something out of a science-fiction movie – genius scientists engineer a synthetic skin that’s part living, part electronics.

But scientists at Harvard University have done just that, creating meshes of electronic and biological tissue.

The end result is cyborg tissue, which is created from electrodes and wires combined on a Nano-scale.

The results, published in Nature Materials, detail how scientists in the lab embedded electrical nanowires into the lab-grown flesh.
Dr Charles Lieber, who is a chemistry professor at Harvard and the leader of the research team, told the Harvard Gazette: ‘With this technology, for the first time, we can work at the same scale as the unit of biological system without interrupting it.
‘Ultimately, this is about merging tissue with electronics in a way that it becomes difficult to determine where the tissue ends and the electronics begin.’

The Gazette notes that the researches initially worried about how the ‘skin,’ once implanted, would sense and react to chemical and electrical changes.
Normal human skin is capable of sensing oxygen, pH, and other elements in the air, and reacts to each one accordingly.
The challenge, then, was engineering skin that would do the same.
First, a 3D mesh of organic polymer is laid out with nanoscale wires within. According to Nature Materials, the wires serve as ‘critical sensing elements.’

Then, they worked in human neurons, heart cells, and blood vessels.
When the substrate was dissolved, researchers had mesh they could contour into the shapes they needed.
Because of the embedded wiring, scientists were able to obtain accurate readings of pH.
Human cyborgs have been imagined in Hollywood for decades, famously in the Star Trek and Terminator franchises.
In both, the cyborg characters have decidedly human appearances, though below the epidermis still lurks a robotic core of metal.
However, the Harvard scientists are not looking to such lofty ends.
Dr Lieber told the Gazette said their invention could greatly benefit the pharmaceutical industry, which could test its drugs on the cyborg skin instead of few layers of cultured cells.

[ilovebacon]

World's Top3 Humanoid Robots - Asimo vs HPR-4 vs NAO! - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mh1XEp59E8&feature=related

[Graeme S]

Oh, shit.
In World First, Scientists Surgically Implant a Working Bionic | Australian Popular Science (http://www.popsci.com.au/science/health/in-world-first-scientists-surgically-implant-a-working-bionic-eye-in-a-blind-patient)
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9sabefILt1qzozj1.jpg
We've been waiting on the prospect of a bionic eye for a while now; being able to surgically give sight to the sightless would be a medical breakthrough, and we're right on the cusp. Exhibit A: In a world first, scientists have successfully implanted a prototype bionic eye that has helped a woman see shapes.

Researchers from the government-funded consortium Bionic Vision Australia made the announcement in a statement yesterday; in it the implantee said she "didn't know what to expect, but all of a sudden, I could see a little flash - it was amazing." The team is hoping they can start to "build" shapes based on what she sees, eventually creating a bionic eye that works like its organic counterpart.

The prototype device is set up in a lab. Electrodes in the implant stimulate nerve cells, and in the controlled environment scientists can get feedback from the user on the "flashes of light." That could help them adjust until the "flashes of light" reflect the actual environment enough to be helpful. It's not full vision, but it's an early step toward it.

The next stage, the scientists say, is incorporating an external camera into a device, and creating versions with more electrodes. With 98, a person could be able to see large objects; with 1,024, they could recognise faces and large print.

[Culverin]

we're in trouble now....

DARPA - PETMAN Robot Masters Stairs [720p] - YouTube

[Culverin]

oops, wrong thread

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

DARPA combines human brains and 120-megapixel cameras to create the ultimate military threat detection system | ExtremeTech (http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/136446-darpa-combines-human-brains-and-120-megapixel-cameras-for-the-ultimate-military-threat-detection-system)

Neural implant recovers ability to make decisions - News (http://www.virtualmedicalcentre.com/news/neural-implant-recovers-ability-to-make-decisions/17835)


more to do with cybornetics but yeah whatever! same shit! cool stuff!

[Graeme S]

I'm looking forward to transhumanity. Personally, I want new eyes.

[RacePace]

But will you have asked for it?

http://static2.fjcdn.com/comments/Adam+Jensen+is+so+fuckin+hawt.+I+m+a+straight+guy+ _42f837eaa022d14c7ec0bd105242e5e7.jpg

[Graeme S]

This discussion is relevant to our discussion:

Robot Apocalypse (http://what-if.xkcd.com/5/)

[Culverin]

Singularity here we come!!!

Biologist discovers mammal with salamander-like regenerative abilities (http://www.labspaces.net/123906/Biologist_discovers_mammal_with_salamander_like_re generative_abilities)


With this, artificial organs and transfer mind into machine!!!
Awwww yeaaahhhh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6mZZiI4ShQ

[rsx]

Can't wait for Petman to become fully mil-spec.

[Culverin]

MorpHex part III - YouTube

[Culverin]

it moves. very smooth.

PhantomX running Phoenix code - YouTube

[murd0c]

this one takes the cake so far

'Terminator' arm is world's most advanced prosthetic limb - YouTube

[Culverin]

Old vid from BostonDynamic

LegLab - YouTube

[AW607]

PETMAN - YouTube

after clicking it, pause it and then play this:

Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive [Version 1] (Video) - YouTube

Try and play them both at the same time, result is :joy:

[Culverin]

Quadrocopter Pole Acrobatics - YouTube


Top comment:
I have invented an aerial catching device! I guess I'll call it... 'sky-net.'

[Culverin]

geeeeze

Dynamic Robot Manipulation - YouTube

[Graeme S]

Petman Tests Camo - YouTube

[AW607]

Now I wonder how many bullets a petman can take.. :suspicious:

[Neva]

When it squatted down I thought it was going to jump up. Don't know why but the thought of it jumping freak the crap out of me...

[danizer]

petman has a #yoloswag quality to it

[ilovebacon]

that some scary ass shit

[Culverin]

Freaky AI robot - YouTube

[Graeme S]

Just try and make your way past the dubstep.

Mantis - Two Tonne Turbo Diesel Hexapod Walking Machine - YouTube

[ilovebacon]

that stupid mantis is so slow.. Anything could had out ran it
Posted via RS Mobile

[SpartanAir]

Just try and make your way past the dubstep.

Mantis - Two Tonne Turbo Diesel Hexapod Walking Machine - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h9Mw-s9mzI)

That dubstep is distractingly awful...and is far too fast paced to match the ridiculously slow Mantis. Fun project to make, expensive no doubt. But pointless. :facepalm:

[twitchyzero]

Google?s chief engineer: People will soon upload their entire brains to computers ? RT USA (http://rt.com/usa/google-kurzweil-singularity-brain-011/)
There are around 377 million results on Google.com for the query “Can I live forever?” Ask that question to company’s top engineer, though, and you’re likely to hear an answer that’s much more concise.

Simply put, Google’s Ray Kurzweil says immortality is only a few years away. Digital immortality, at least.

Kurzweil, 64, was only brought on to Google late last year, but that hasn’t stopped him from making headlines already. During a conference in New York City last week, the company’s director of engineering said that the growth of biotechnology is so quickly paced that he predicts our lives will be drastically different in just a few decades.

According to Kurzweil, humans will soon be able to upload their entire brains onto computers. After then, other advancements won’t be too far behind.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6yvhgBLnG1qk8zxso1_250.gif
I just finished watching the show Fringe too :suspicious:

[2 n r]

Google Acquires Boston Dynamics

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/12/14/business/ROBOT/ROBOT-articleLarge.jpg

SAN FRANCISCO — BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas have joined Google’s growing robot menagerie.Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, based in Waltham, Mass., has gained an international reputation for machines that walk with an uncanny sense of balance and even — cheetahlike — run faster than the fastest humans.

It is the eighth robotics company that Google has acquired in the last half-year. Executives at the Internet giant are circumspect about what exactly they plan to do with their robot collection. But Boston Dynamics and its animal kingdom-themed machines bring significant cachet to Google’s robotic efforts, which are being led by Andy Rubin, the Google executive who spearheaded the development of Android, the world’s most widely used smartphone software.

The deal is also the clearest indication yet that Google is intent on building a new class of autonomous systems that might do anything from warehouse work to package delivery and even elder care.

Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992 by Marc Raibert, a former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It has not sold robots commercially, but has pushed the limits of mobile and off-road robotics technology, mostly for Pentagon clients like the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa. Early on, the company also did consulting work for Sony on consumer robots like the Aibo robotic dog.

Boston Dynamics’ walking robots have a reputation for being extraordinarily agile, able to walk over rough terrain and handle surfaces that in some cases are challenging even for humans.

A video of one of its robots named BigDog shows a noisy, gas-powered, four-legged, walking robot that climbs hills, travels through snow, skitters precariously on ice and even manages to stay upright in response to a well-placed human kick. BigDog development started in 2003 in partnership with the British robot maker Foster-Miller, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Harvard.

The video has been viewed more than 15 million times since it was posted on YouTube in 2008.

More recently, Boston Dynamics distributed a video of a four-legged robot named WildCat, galloping in high-speed circles in a parking lot.

Although the videos frequently inspire comments that the robots will evolve into scary killing machines straight out of the “Terminator” movies, Dr. Raibert has said in the past that he does not consider his company to be a military contractor — it is merely trying to advance robotics technology. Google executives said the company would honor existing military contracts, but that it did not plan to move toward becoming a military contractor on its own.

Under a $10.8 million contract, Boston Dynamics is currently supplying Darpa with a set of humanoid robots named Atlas to participate in the Darpa Robotics Challenge, a two-year contest with a $2 million prize. The contest’s goal is creating a class of robots that can operate in natural disasters and catastrophes like the nuclear power plant meltdown in Fukushima, Japan.

“Competitions like the Darpa Robotics Challenge stretch participants to try to solve problems that matter and we hope to learn from the teams’ insights around disaster relief,” Mr. Rubin said in a statement released by Google.

Boston Dynamics has also designed robots that can climb walls and trees as well as other two- and four-legged walking robots, a neat match to Mr. Rubin’s notion that “computers are starting to sprout legs and move around in the environment.”

A recent video shows a robot named Cheetah running on a treadmill. This year, the robot was clocked running 29 miles per hour, surpassing the previous legged robot land speed record of 13.1 m.p.h., set in 1999. That’s about one mile per hour faster than Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, the two-time Olympic gold medalist in the 100-meter dash. But it’s far short of a real cheetah, which can hit 65 m.p.h.

Google’s other robotics acquisitions include companies in the United States and Japan that have pioneered a range of technologies including software for advanced robot arms, grasping technology and computer vision. Mr. Rubin has also said that he is interested in advancing sensor technology.

Mr. Rubin has called his robotics effort a “moonshot,” but has declined to describe specific products that might come from the project. He has, however, also said that he does not expect initial product development to go on for years, indicating that Google commercial robots of some nature could be available in the next several years.

Google declined to say much it paid for its newest robotics acquisition and said that it did not plan to release financial information on any of the other companies it has recently bought.

Dr. Raibert is known as the father of walking robots in the United States. He originally created the Leg Lab, a research laboratory to explore walking machines at Carnegie Mellon University in 1980. He then moved the laboratory to M.I.T. before leaving academia to build engineering systems for the military and Sony.

His research in walking robots began with a pogo-stick project called “the hopper,” which he used to test basic concepts.

“I am excited by Andy and Google’s ability to think very, very big,” Dr. Raibert said, “with the resources to make it happen.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/technology/google-adds-to-its-menagerie-of-robots.html

http://frankmedia.com.au/wp-content/upLoads/2012/01/google-is-skynet.jpg

[StylinRed]

smart bullets!

EXACTO Demonstrates First-Ever Guided .50-Caliber Bullets - YouTube

Watch smart bullets change direction in mid-air | The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/11/5891349/50-caliber-bullet-direction-darpa)

[Culverin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8YjvHYbZ9w

[Presto]

AI masters 49 Atari 2600 games without instructions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjpEIotvwFY

Artificial intelligence, machines and software with the ability to think for themselves, can be used for a variety of applications ranging from military technology to everyday services like automated telephone systems. However, none of the systems that currently exist exhibit learning abilities that would match the human intelligence. Recently, scientists have wondered whether an artificial agent could be given a tiny bit of human-like intelligence by modeling the algorithm on aspects of the primate neural system.

Using a bio-inspired system architecture, scientists have created a single algorithm that is actually able to develop problem-solving skills when presented with challenges that can stump some humans. And then they immediately put it to use learning a set of classic video games.

Scientists developed the novel agent (they called it the Deep Q-network), one that combined reinforcement learning with what's termed a "deep convolutional network," a layered system of artificial neural networks. Deep-Q is able to understand spatial relationships between different objects in an image, such as distance from one another, in such a sophisticated way that it can actually re-envision the scene from a different viewpoint. This type of system was inspired by early work done on the visual cortex.

Scientists considered tasks in which Deep-Q was able to interact with the environment through a sequence of observations, actions, and rewards, with an ultimate goal of interacting in a way to maximize reward. Reinforcement learning systems sound like a simple approach to developing artificial intelligence—after all, we have all seen that small children are able to learn from their mistakes. Yet when it comes to designing artificial intelligence, it is much trickier to ensure all the components necessary for this type of learning are actually included. As a result, artificial reinforcement learning systems are usually quite unstable.

Here, these scientists addressed previous instability issues in creating Deep-Q. One important mechanism that they specifically added to Deep-Q was “experience replay.” This element allows the system to store visual information about experiences and transitions much like our memory works. For example, if a small child leaves home to go to a playground, he will still remember what home looks like at the playground. If he is running and he trips over a tree root, he will remember that bad outcome and try to avoid tree roots in the future.

Using these abilities, Deep-Q is able to perform reinforcement learning, using rewards to continuously establish visual relationships between objects and actions within the convolution network. Over time, it identifies visual aspects of the environment that would promote good outcomes.

This bio-inspired approach is based on evidence that rewards during perceptual learning may influence the way images and sequences of events or resulting outcomes are processed within the primate visual cortex. Additionally, evidence suggests that in the mammalian brain, the hippocampus may actually support the physical realization of the processes involved in the “experience replay” algorithm.


It takes a few hundred tries, but the neural networks eventually figure out the rules, then later discover strategies.
Scientists tested Deep Q’s problem-solving abilities on the Atari 2600 gaming platform. Deep-Q learned not only the rules for a variety of games (49 games in total) in a range of different environments, but the behaviors required to maximize scores. It did so with minimal prior knowledge, receiving only visual images (in pixel form) and the game score as inputs. In these experiments, the authors used the same algorithm, network architecture, and hyperparameters on each game—the exact same limitations a human player would have, given we can't swap brains out. Notably, these game genres varied from boxing to car-racing, representing a tremendous range of inputs and challenges.

Remarkably, Deep Q outperforms the best existing systems on all but six of the games. Deep Q also did nearly as well as a professional human games tester across the board, achieving more than 75 percent of the human's score on the majority of the games.

The scientists also examined how the agent learned from contextual information using the game Space Invaders. Using a special technique to visualize the high-dimensional data, scientists saw that the situations that looked similar mapped to nearby points, as you'd expect. But Deep Q also learned from sensory inputs in an adaptive manner: similar spatial relationships within Deep Q’s neural network were found for situations that had similar expected rewards but looked different. Deep Q can actually generalize what it has learned from previous experiences to different environments and situations just like we can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dds_yDJFhvI

This bio-inspired approach suggests that modeling artificial intelligence systems on the mammalian brain and neural system could be a successful avenue to the development of artificial intelligence systems. So now all that’s left is to ask ourselves one question: do you think you could beat Deep-Q’s scores?

[Culverin]

Watch this

https://youtu.be/P9iYEUq9Vgo




Read this.

The AI Revolution: Road to Superintelligence - Wait But Why (http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html)

That's the best article I have read in recent years.

[corollagtSr5]

So when AI becomes self aware and realizes in order to survive humans would need to go stasis mode like the matrix to stop population growth but to also preserve the human race. Other wise humans keep multiplying and consuming all natural resources. Or it could go Stephen hawking way and just destroy all humanity in fear of being offlined or cleansing the planet of this virus that's destroying the planet. There's also a chance AI and humans work together and can solve problems like quantum physics and help you create technology like worm hole portals. What do you guys think?

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

before AI becomes self aware, we will already be far deep into cybernetic technology.

so when AI becomes self aware, they will already be half organic.

and we will be half robot. so really. who's the enemy. lol.

[corollagtSr5]

T1000 technology in development
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WodTppevo

[Culverin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnT1xgZgkpk

[Culverin]

Watching him talk is dryyyy.
But he seems rather smart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UIg00a_CD4

[godwin]

I like Linus' response the best and you know what Torvald and Ng are people who are actually mucking with code, instead of all the armchair quarterbacks, like Musk and even Hawkings. Linus' Q&A is here (http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/06/30/0058243/interviews-linus-torvalds-answers-your-question) Also Andrew Ng's answer (http://www.wired.com/2015/05/andrew-ng-deep-learning-mandate-humans-not-just-machines/) I don’t know what’s going to happen five years from now. The reason I say that I don’t worry about AI turning evil is the same reason I don’t worry about overpopulation on Mars. Hundreds of years from now I hope we’ve colonized Mars. But we’ve never set foot on the planet so how can we productively worry about this problem now?

Another key take home point is last week all the fear is based on we will follow the Moore's law pretty much until AI comes around.. Intel acknowledged Moores law is actually no longer true in a commercial sense and they are scaling back their aggressive time table. We are down to the last 2 shrinks.. 10nm, 7nm.. then it is all over. The scary thing is we don't have anything to replace that... I am not sure we can fit in all the shielding that a D Wave requires into an Apple Watch.



alleged danger of Artificial Intelligence
by peter303

Some computer experts like Marvin Minsky, Larry Page, Ray Kuzweil think A.I. will be a great gift to Mankind. Others like Bill Joy and Elon Musk are fearful of potential danger. Where do you stand, Linus?

Linus: I just don't see the thing to be fearful of.

We'll get AI, and it will almost certainly be through something very much like recurrent neural networks. And the thing is, since that kind of AI will need training, it won't be "reliable" in the traditional computer sense. It's not the old rule-based prolog days, when people thought they'd *understand* what the actual decisions were in an AI.

And that all makes it very interesting, of course, but it also makes it hard to productize. Which will very much limit where you'll actually find those neural networks, and what kinds of network sizes and inputs and outputs they'll have.

So I'd expect just more of (and much fancier) rather targeted AI, rather than anything human-like at all. Language recognition, pattern recognition, things like that. I just don't see the situation where you suddenly have some existential crisis because your dishwasher is starting to discuss Sartre with you.

The whole "Singularity" kind of event? Yeah, it's science fiction, and not very good SciFi at that, in my opinion. Unending exponential growth? What drugs are those people on? I mean, really..

It's like Moore's law - yeah, it's very impressive when something can (almost) be plotted on an exponential curve for a long time. Very impressive indeed when it's over many decades. But it's _still_ just the beginning of the "S curve". Anybody who thinks any different is just deluding themselves. There are no unending exponentials.

[Culverin]

Technological innovation over time seems to be on overlapping S-curves.
Yes, we're getting close to maxing out our capabilities of silicon manufacturing. But that's because we went from an emerging technology, to innovative spark, exponential growth and now we're slowing down because the technology is mature.

http://static.safehaven.com/authors/to/5184_a.gif

However, silicon is only our first foray into our microprocessor technology.
There are other methods that work.
Just not scalable for manufacturing yet.
Adios, silicon: Why exotic designs are the future for the chips in your gadgets - CNET (http://www.cnet.com/news/life-after-silicon-how-the-chip-industry-will-find-a-new-future/)


It doesn't have to be infinite exponential growth in Moore's law for transistors forever.
An AI only needs to climb to be 2-3 steps smarter than us, and it will be as far us as we are to a chicken.

This isn't even accounting for the fact that an AI's performance and intelligence can scale with no biological limitation.
- Perfect recall
- 24 hour functionality
- Scales by adding new hardware
- Can re-write it's own code for self improvement.

[Culverin]

As for Ng's interview

I think AI is akin to building a rocket ship. You need a huge engine and a lot of fuel. If you have a large engine and a tiny amount of fuel, you won’t make it to orbit. If you have a tiny engine and a ton of fuel, you can’t even lift off. To build a rocket you need a huge engine and a lot of fuel.


The analogy to deep learning [one of the key processes in creating artificial intelligence] is that the rocket engine is the deep learning models and the fuel is the huge amounts of data we can feed to these algorithms.
If huge engine = deep learning models
and fuel = massive amount of data

People like Kurzweil are already attempting to do that.
They are building their neural nets for pattern recognition (voice, image, text). The days of people of doing manual coding to directly influence an AI is over. Yes, we have narrow AI, but the are teaching the AI more and more generalized concepts.
And Kurzweil sitting as Google's director of tech engineering has access to essentially all the data in the world (fuel),
and the processing power required to churn through it all.

[godwin]

Honestly Kurzwell is all talk.. he has been talking about this since his grad school days if you read his work, it is always updated for the day it will happen. His and others like Pinker's, it is basically their grad school thesis recycled and we are still not there. They are in the 60s and we are still waiting.

As I say, I prefer listening to people who are actually doing the work for their opinions on when events might happen, vs someone who just thinks about it theoretically. I know you need both, but I find the first group gives a better estimate than the latter.

AI up to now is programmatically inefficient.. there is no way around that with our silicon based systems. Functional programming might provide enough abstraction for programs to change on the fly for it to "evolve", but it is slow as heck.

There is a good chance of something down the road that might change that.. that will be way beyond 20-30 years (see my next post).. don't think I will be around to contribute to that.

Maybe I am just old, I cut my teeth with genetic programming and algorithms with old school Silicon Graphics machines (still have a couple of the mini fridges in my townhouse basement).. so my perspective is it won't happen any time soon. For AI to truly work, you will need to change the whole computing paradigm to include some type of stochastic process on every level.

As for Ng's interview

If huge engine = deep learning models
and fuel = massive amount of data

People like Kurzweil are already attempting to do that.
They are building their neural nets for pattern recognition (voice, image, text). The days of people of doing manual coding to directly influence an AI is over. Yes, we have narrow AI, but the are teaching the AI more and more generalized concepts.
And Kurzweil sitting as Google's director of tech engineering has access to essentially all the data in the world (fuel),
and the processing power required to churn through it all.

[godwin]

Silicon might be our first foray.. and might not be our last.. BUT it relies on fabrication technologies that are being developed and we can foresee what is in the pipeline a decade or 2 down the road.. right now our pipeline beyond 7nm is empty, that's a decade down the road on a good day. We are having problems with cross talk with 10nm. Innovation that scales that's a heck of a long time, especially it is in the physical realm, people still need to build things like fabs.

AI might scale well when it happens. But right now today or for a few decades: manufacturing of silicon still requires human labor to design, lay down the etching, take the wafers out of the oven and whole bunch of sundries.. having a big brain to create its own chip to take over the world all by themselves or manufacture stuff themselves? We are not there.

Silicon wise, we can do Group 4 dope but that's extremely expensive and no way we can do it at the current price and at quantities we want to keep up the computing power growth we have. Basically our computing power is plateauing out, we are also at a power crunch.

You might say what about photonics or spintronics? We are having a rough ride with those too. We might be getting some interface work offloaded to them, but processor? in say a decades? doubt it.

I always assume any human can intellectually contribute to science for 50 years. Actively working on it like, Ng or Linus probably 30. At this stage of technology of what we have right now.. AI/ Singularity.. probably for the next, next generation to figure out.. and honestly we shouldn't control / dictate what future generations want to do. We can only educate the next generation, not change the world for them. I am pretty sure I won't be around to see it.

Just like I won't see flying cars, but I am glad that self driving cars might happen. I won't worry about AI, just as I won't worry about 20M tall Mobile Suits that can fly, swim, muck around town and have kendo fights, after seeing the DARPA challenge up close as a spectator.

Technological innovation over time seems to be on overlapping S-curves.
Yes, we're getting close to maxing out our capabilities of silicon manufacturing. But that's because we went from an emerging technology, to innovative spark, exponential growth and now we're slowing down because the technology is mature.

However, silicon is only our first foray into our microprocessor technology.
There are other methods that work.
Just not scalable for manufacturing yet.
Adios, silicon: Why exotic designs are the future for the chips in your gadgets - CNET (http://www.cnet.com/news/life-after-silicon-how-the-chip-industry-will-find-a-new-future/)


It doesn't have to be infinite exponential growth in Moore's law for transistors forever.
An AI only needs to climb to be 2-3 steps smarter than us, and it will be as far us as we are to a chicken.

This isn't even accounting for the fact that an AI's performance and intelligence can scale with no biological limitation.
- Perfect recall
- 24 hour functionality
- Scales by adding new hardware
- Can re-write it's own code for self improvement.

[ForbiddenX]

Speaking of Andrew Ng, he has a course up on coursera right now for Machine Learning https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/home/info. Might be something interesting to do haha.

[ForbiddenX]

Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on warfare AI and autonomous weapons | Technology | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/27/musk-wozniak-hawking-ban-ai-autonomous-weapons)

Over 1,000 high-profile artificial intelligence experts and leading researchers have signed an open letter warning of a “military artificial intelligence arms race” and calling for a ban on “offensive autonomous weapons”.

The letter, presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was signed by Tesla’s Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Google DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis and professor Stephen Hawking along with 1,000 AI and robotics researchers.

The letter states: “AI technology has reached a point where the deployment of [autonomous weapons] is – practically if not legally – feasible within years, not decades, and the stakes are high: autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms.”

The authors argue that AI can be used to make the battlefield a safer place for military personnel, but that offensive weapons that operate on their own would lower the threshold of going to battle and result in greater loss of human life.

Should one military power start developing systems capable of selecting targets and operating autonomously without direct human control, it would start an arms race similar to the one for the atom bomb, the authors argue.Unlike nuclear weapons, however, AI requires no specific hard-to-create materials and will be difficult to monitor.

“The endpoint of this technological trajectory is obvious: autonomous weapons will become the Kalashnikovs of tomorrow. The key question for humanity today is whether to start a global AI arms race or to prevent it from starting,” said the authors.

Toby Walsh, professor of AI at the University of New South Wales said: “We need to make a decision today that will shape our future and determine whether we follow a path of good. We support the call by a number of different humanitarian organisations for a UN ban on offensive autonomous weapons, similar to the recent ban on blinding lasers.”

Musk and Hawking have warned that AI is “our biggest existential threat” and that the development of full AI could “spell the end of the human race”. But others, including Wozniak have recently changed their minds on AI, with the Apple co-founder saying that robots would be good for humans, making them like the “family pet and taken care of all the time”.

At a UN conference in Geneva in April discussing the future of weaponry, including so-called “killer robots”, the UK opposed a ban on the development of autonomous weapons, despite calls from various pressure groups, including the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

[godwin]

Rafael has a system that automatically identify targets already for Israel's tower security.

I find it is a slippery slope for such a ban, electronics have been taking workload off humans for a long time especially in warfare... first we have radar to guard, then we have friend or foe systems and now we use automatic target designation, routing and tasking. Considering the future of warfare is all based on networked data collection and action, AND current iteration of AI relies on being networked to be useful.. I can't see how you can not have AI controlled weapons. We had passed the point when we hook cameras and GPS to weapons platforms.

Weapons treaties are only useful if countries sign on and comply with it. US usually doesn't sign on to weapons treaties anyways unless they really need to (eg bullets, cluster munitions etc).

I can't see people in power take this too seriously.

Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on warfare AI and autonomous weapons | Technology | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/27/musk-wozniak-hawking-ban-ai-autonomous-weapons)

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

yo man, if humans destiny is to leave behind a more advanced race of robots or hybrids or whatever... i'm happy with that too.

it's like having a son. except at the level of species. giving birth to a new species and dying off and making room for the new.

i'm all for that. as long as something more advanced is left behind... and not the planet completely going extinct LOL.

our robot future ancestors will be better than any human can be. and we will make them in our image. so you can sure bet they'll be really good at destroying shit and taking over stuff.

they'll destroy everything and take over everything faster than we could ever do it. i'll stand proud in heaven (or probably hell) as i watch our future children reap havoc and terror across the cosmos in the name of humanity.

[twitchyzero]

Will a robot take your job? - BBC News (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34066941?ocid=socialflow_facebook)

mine is 2% likely

[Culverin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
Boston Dynamics updates the Atlas.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

[Culverin]

ooops.

[Culverin]

MIT students invented a robotic kitchen - Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/mit-students-invented-a-robotic-kitchen-2016-4)

[Culverin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCZs1OAKoU

[Culverin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTwg3oWnUgc

[EndLeSS8]

Well, this was already to be expected

An Artificial Intelligence Just Beat A Real Human In A Dogfight (http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/an-artificial-intelligence-just-beat-a-real-human-in-a-1782778500)

[Culverin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nt3edWLgIg

[corollagtSr5]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nt3edWLgIg

Did you like the side boob at 4:09 lol.

Reminds me of the matrix. If AI is created in the moment where it sees humans as we live now, they probably look at us as a virus killing the planet. If we some how program a safe guard into the AI into not harming us they would build a virtual reality where they'd stick a needle in your head, in order for the planet to live. Just like the matrix. In the matrix AI you can do whatever your imagination wants to do. Full control of the human race so we dont kill the planet but also perserving us. From there they find planets like earth and plant genetic specimens that eventually evolve into another intellegent race, capable of building a new version of AI. Completing the circle of life.

[Presto]

CMU Artificial Intelligence Is Tough Poker Player -CMU News - Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/january/AI-tough-poker-player.html)

As the “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante” poker competition nears its halfway point, Carnegie Mellon University’s AI program, called Libratus, is opening a lead over its human opponents — four of the world’s best professional poker players. Libratus had amassed a lead of $459,154 in chips in the 49,240 hands played by the end of Day Nine. One of the pros, Jimmy Chou, said he and his colleagues initially underestimated Libratus, but have come to regard it as one tough player.

“The bot gets better and better every day,” Chou said. “It’s like a tougher version of us.”

Brains Vs. AI, which began Jan. 11 at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, pits Chou and three other leading players — Dong Kim, Jason Les and Daniel McAulay — against Libratus in a 20-day contest in which they will play 120,000 hands of Heads-Up, No-Limit Texas Hold’em poker. All four pros specialize in this two-player, unlimited bid form of Texas Hold’em and are considered among the world’s top players of the game.

While the pros are fighting for humanity’s pride — and shares of a $200,000 prize purse — Carnegie Mellon researchers are hoping their computer program will establish a new benchmark for artificial intelligence by besting some of the world’s most talented players.

Libratus was developed by Tuomas Sandholm, professor of computer science, and his Ph.D. student, Noam Brown. Libratus is being used in this contest to play poker, an imperfect information game that requires the AI to bluff and correctly interpret misleading information to win. Ultimately programs like Libratus also could be used to negotiate business deals, set military strategy or plan a course of medical treatment — all cases that involve complicated decisions based on imperfect information.

In the first Brains Vs. AI contest in 2015, four leading pros amassed more chips than the AI, called Claudico. But Sandholm said he’s feeling good about Libratus’ chances as the competition proceeds. “The algorithms are performing great. They’re better at solving strategy ahead of time, better at driving strategy during play and better at improving strategy on the fly,” Sandholm said.

Chou said he and the other pros have shared notes and tips each day, looking for weaknesses they can each exploit.
“The first couple of days, we had high hopes,” Chou said. “But every time we find a weakness, it learns from us and the weakness disappears the next day.”

The change from day to day is not unexpected, Sandholm said. Each night after poker play ends, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Bridges computer performs computations to sharpen the AI’s strategy. During the day’s game play, Bridges is used to compute end-game strategies for each hand.

“The people at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center have done a great job,” Sandholm said, noting the staff has moved workloads around to enable the computer to be used in the competition. Since the beginning of the contest, the center has increased the number of Bridges’ computer nodes assigned to the poker tournament.

Play begins at 11 a.m. each day and ends after 8 p.m. The public is welcome to observe game play, which is in Rivers’ Poker Room.

Brains Vs. AI is sponsored by GreatPoint Ventures, Avenue4Analytics, TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, the journal Artificial Intelligence, Intel and Optimized Markets, Inc. Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science has partnered with Rivers Casino, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) through a peer-reviewed XSEDE allocation, and Sandholm’s Electronic Marketplaces Laboratory for this event.

[pastarocket]

-interesting article about the development of AI in Canada to bolster economic growth:

Artificial intelligence new job engine for Canada: feds (Victoria Times Colonist)
Published: 2017-01-26
BUSINESS | B4
By: Mike Blanchfield

They see it as a way of saying "Hasta la vista, baby" to years of sluggish economic growth.

The federal government is expected to use the upcoming federal budget to foster the development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence in the hope it will be a springboard to attracting investment and creating a highly skilled new sector of jobs.

Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains said fostering AI is one of the pillars of the government's economic growth strategy. He and others see an opportunity for Canada to exploit its competitive advantage in a technology that is becoming ubiquitous across all sectors - from major companies such as Google or Microsoft to the banking and automotive sectors.

The government's vision of AI-enabled growth is not rooted in the apocalyptic science fiction of Terminator movies where robots destroy humanity (Arnold Schwarzenegger appropriated the Spanish phrase "Hasta la vista, baby" in Terminator 2: Judgment Day before sparking some spectacular explosions).

Instead, Bains and others point to two Canadian "pioneers" in AI - Geoff Hinton at the University of Toronto and Montreal computer scientist Yoshua Bengio. They are recognized world leaders in "deep learning" or "machine learning" - advanced algorithms that allow powerful new supercomputers to essentially think like humans.

The minister is also buoyed by signs of foreign capital coming to Canada such as Microsoft's recent acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Maluuba, based in Waterloo, Ont., and Montreal. In a recent conversation with Bill Gates, Bains said the Microsoft co-founder acknowledged that Canada was playing "a leadership role" in AI.

"We want to encourage those kinds of investments to continue, to connect with each other on a national level," said Bains.

"If companies are betting on AI, academic institutions are betting on AI, why can't government be a meaningful partner in this area as well?" Tiff Macklem, the dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, said the government needs to take a hands-on approach to help foster the growth of AI in Canada and to keep expertise in the sector from migrating elsewhere.

"I wouldn't use the word 'picking winners'," said Macklem, a former deputy governor of the Bank of Canada.

"I would say where the market is picking a winner, the government has a larger role to play to double down on those winners and provide a path to scale up and secure a position in the global market place before anybody else does it."

The government could help support the development of AI in Canada - and keep its experts from being lured abroad to such places as Silicon Valley - by putting federal money into the creation of an AI institute, said Macklem.

Financial institutions and auto makers are making big investments to develop AI strategies in Canada, he said.

"It's not enough to have the leading research in the world. We have to also be leaders in commercializing that."

Macklem says AI will eventually reap great economic benefits because of its proven ability to revolutionize the speed and efficiency of predictions.

The commercial applications of advanced prediction are staggering, and go far beyond common examples such as helping companies predict what people are going to buy to what stocks might be money-making investments, he said.

"In the next five years, every company is going to need an AI strategy," he said.

But artificial intelligence has its detractors as well.

Renowned author and physicist Stephen Hawking told the BBC three years ago that AI could "spell the end of the human race" when machines eventually turn against their human creators.

An international coalition of non-governmental organizations has created the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, which is pushing for an international treaty to ban autonomous weapons from the battlefields of the future.

Macklem dismisses the doomsday scenarios some associate with AI.

"There's going to be a real issue about whether Canada is at the forefront of this technology or not, because it's coming," he said.

"Wouldn't you rather be a disruptor rather than the victim of disruption?"

[Culverin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5qpXO3isM

3:50 = legged wheeled robot on 2 legs....

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

robots are gonna look a lot weirder than we thought they would, especially when robots start designing other robots.

[Culverin]

Humans need not apply

Chinese factory replaces 90% of human workers with robots. Production rises by 250%, defects drop by 80% (http://www.zmescience.com/other/economics/china-factory-robots-03022017/)

[Culverin]

Watch these in order


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j2Q8yXx7vY



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHyUYg8X31c&

[Culverin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c

[The_AK]

^thats the coolest thing ever. Would attach a saddle and use for daily commute/10

[Hehe]

Seeing how well it's managing balance, I predict we'd see the first robot X-Game gold medalist before 2030.

[Culverin]

https://i.imgur.com/4J33sem.gifv

[twitchyzero]

china has been employing drone doves for surveillance for at least a few years now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDvljB160AE

China takes surveillance to new heights with flock of robotic Doves, but do they come in peace? | South China Morning Post (http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2152027/china-takes-surveillance-new-heights-flock-robotic-doves-do-they)

[Presto]

https://youtu.be/LikxFZZO2sk

[ilovebacon]

wow, they came a long way. Shit is gonna be interesting in the future.

[FerrariEnzo]

that was better then what I could do