We shall be viewed
Democratic members of Congress sat on the floor last week, refusing to move and demanding legislative action on gun control. Republicans responded by turning off the TV cameras in the house, blocking the protest from public view. But live feeds from Democrat phones, using the Periscope app from Twitter, kept coverage of the protest flowing.
For the first time in history, we are building artefacts endowed with the ability to make autonomous decisions that have moral consequences
Iyad Rahwan of MIT on the dilemmas posed by self-driving cars that must make decisions about human life.
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Your robot slave
It鈥檚 good news for those who hate housework. OpenAI, a start-up funded to the tune of $1 billion by Elon Musk, has announced that it aims to build a household robot. 鈥淲e鈥檙e working to enable a physical robot (off-the-shelf; not manufactured by OpenAI) to perform basic housework,鈥� OpenAI said in a blog post.