Amazon’s Secretive Smart Home Robots Could Be in Your Home Soon
Amazon’s expanding its lineup of smart home products. They recently rolled out a web app that allows you to create custom Alexa greetings, responses, workflows, and more. The tech giant is also allegedly working on a smart home robot. Amazon has been extremely secretive about details surrounding the new smart home robots. The Future of… […]
Will Robots Be Friend or Foe to Humanity?
Evil robots are a beloved staple of the science fiction genre, no matter the medium. Usually equipped with unparalleled artificial intelligence (AI) and a sleek, indestructible chassis to match its dangerous cunning, bots like these have been in dozens of post-apocalyptic stories where humanity’s fate rests on the shoulders of only a few surviving protagonists. […]
Machine Learning Turns Drones Into Literal Inspector Gadgets
We have written already this week about Amazon’s advances in automation, which could eventually replace the thousands of entry-level warehouse positions the company has created. When mobile app developers consider the issue of robots taking human jobs, they often think of this kind of warehouse or factory work. But as innovation in artificial intelligence and […]
Can Amazon Remain on the Cutting Edge of Jobs and Automation?
Last week, Amazon announced that it is looking for the right city to house its second headquarters. Several American cities of varying sizes are competing for the facility, including Chicago, Washington, D.C., Salt Lake City, Austin, Charlotte, Tulsa, and Columbus, OH. The dominant narrative of the American economy right now is simple: Americans need good […]
UK Government Adopts Anti-“Killer Robot” Stance
Among internet of things app developers, Elon Musk is nearly as famous for his apocalyptic warnings as he is for his innovations in the electric car and space travel. He is perhaps the most vocal and influential critic of artificial intelligence, warning that the technology poses a grave risk to humanity if it’s not closely […]
Musk Urges Governors to Act Now on AI for Humanity’s Sake
To his most ardent fans, Elon Musk is some kind of tech prophet, a visionary who genuinely believes in the power of technology to solve many of the world’s biggest problems. But Musk has always viewed at least one area of technological growth as potentially dangerous: artificial intelligence. In the recent past, he referred to […]
Will the Working Classes Survive the Coming Automation Wave?
We may be headed for a more efficient society as AI and robotics streamline work in this country, but the closer we get to the automated future, the more anxiety there is among actual human workers. What will society do if automation leaves a huge portion of society under- or unemployed? There tends to be […]