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09/18/2015 / By Chris Draper

Soulless machines raising children: Hello Barbie is the first conversational A.I. children’s toy

Advances in artificial intelligence (A.I) are spreading to unsuspecting places in the market place, including your child’s beloved barbie doll. A team of researchers working with ToyTalk are transforming barbie from a plastic toy to a friend that can carry on conversations, both big and small. The A.I. barbie, known as Hello Barbie, is expected […]

08/27/2015 / By Chris Draper

AI robot that learns new words in real-time tells human creators it will keep them in a “people zoo”

Androids are being developed that have an uncanny resemblance to people. A pinnacle example is an android crafted by roboticist David Hanson that resembles the famous and deceased science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. What makes android Dick so remarkable isn’t so much his appearance as it is his ability to hold an intelligent conversation. […]

08/21/2015 / By Chris Draper

Before AI robot ethics, shouldn’t we focus on establishing medical ethics? Western medicine remains largest threat to human life

Whether or not autonomous weapons should have rights is a question that has received a lot of attention in recent years. In the same way vegetarians pushed for animal rights, artificial intelligence enthusiasts are pushing to extend legal rights to social robots. Unlike animals, however, robots aren’t sentient, and aren’t expected to be sentient anytime […]

08/17/2015 / By Chris Draper

Transhumanist presidential candidate proposes microchipping citizens’ brains to establish authoritarian control over humans

Transhumanist presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan proposed that behavior-correcting brain implants could be used as a substitute for capital punishment, according to a recent article published in Motherboard. Istvan argues that violent behavior is a mental disorder that requires outside assistance, in the same way a heart with an irregular beat requires a pacemaker. According to […]

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