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09/11/2017 / By D. Samuelson

Rise of the robots will force employers to have “human hiring quotas” even if robots can do their job better

The International Bar Association (IBA), says Ibanet.org, is the “world’s leading organization of international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies.” IBA’s global reach extends to 160 countries with 80,000 individual lawyers as members worldwide. Their expertise “covers all practice areas and professional interests,” and include, among other agendas, a large human rights component. Their global corporate reach provides an […]

03/21/2017 / By D. Samuelson

Food delivery robots are already taking over jobs in Washington D.C.

Postmates is a U.S. corporation based in San Francisco with a mission to allow “anyone to have anything your heart desires to be delivered on-demand.” The company was birthed in 2011 by three engineering and tech-savvy entrepreneurs, and has been nicknamed the “Uber for The Courier Industry” by Techcrunch.com. In pursuit of their mission, Postmates has hired, and still is hiring, a bevy […]

02/23/2017 / By D. Samuelson

Google’s AI has learned to become aggressive

In 2015, according to Business Insider, Google engineers were programming “an advanced kind of chatbot.” These earlier Artificial Intelligence (AI) machines were learning how to respond to questions after given input containing specific types of dialogue. The engineers were pleased to discover their AI machines were gaining proficiency in “forming new answers to new questions.” And although some AI responses were creative, they were tinged with malevolence. Here is […]

02/10/2017 / By D. Samuelson

Jobless Future: Amazon to open supermarket staffed with robots

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, uncharacteristically tweeted back at a recent New York Post article touting the technological titan’s plans to create a “two-story automated grocery store” with a 20% profit margin made possible by automation and robot employees. The article decreed that potentially 2000 of these grocery stores, ranging “between 10,000 and 40,000 square feet” were on Amazon’s radar. Those unheard […]

12/16/2016 / By D. Samuelson

Concerns rise in both AI’s tremendous power and intelligence, and the lack of intelligence in the humans controlling them

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Zdnet.com reminds us, is not a “magical, mystical source of truth.” After all, AI machines are dependent upon algorithms “whose output is only ever as good as the data put in, or the rules that humans set.” Historically, Homo sapiens have been as capable of creating tremendously beneficial inventions as they have been in furbishing weapons […]

11/04/2016 / By D. Samuelson

AI takeover: Google’s ‘DeepMind’ platform can learn and think on it’s own without human input

Deep learning, as explained by tech journalist Michael Copeland on Blogs.nvidia.com, is the newest and most powerful computational development thus far. It combines all prior research in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. At its most fundamental level, Copeland explains, deep learning uses algorithms to peruse massive amounts of data, and then learn from that data to make […]

10/21/2016 / By D. Samuelson

Robots will replace 5 million human jobs by 2020

The World Economic Forum (WEF), located in Geneva, Switzerland is an impressive consortium of the global leaders of governments, CEOs in media, entertainment, technology and finance as well as policy makers in academia, international agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGO). The WEF meets annually in Davos to “improve the state of the world.” It is the WEF, according to Scienceworldreport.com, that declares we are in the midst of a “Fourth Industrial […]

08/30/2016 / By D. Samuelson

A.I. systems to surveil human activity and report to the CIA

Looking down. It’s become a social construct in this transhuman trending age. Cervical spine and neck surgeons may be in high demand soon after two decades of billions browsing, bending playing and peering into personal computer devices. Bones don’t grind and chins don’t drop as much with virtual reality gear, cyber world eyeglasses, cerebral cortex […]

08/30/2016 / By D. Samuelson

The third Industrial Revolution will see human workers replaced by machines

Like always, you have to follow the money. And the money is on the future. And boy are they chasing it! The future is about authentication. Your iris scan will suffice. It’s miles beyond identification. No Luddite screen names and passwords. The future is cashless. No fuss, no mess, no dirty dollar bills. The future […]

08/23/2016 / By D. Samuelson

Introducing the first affordable home robot for “entertainment and companionship”

I’ve been away from school for a couple of decades or so. I went to college in the ’70s, dropped out, and eventually finished in the ’90s. I leaned toward the theatrical, philosophical, sociological, communicable disciplines and ignorantly ignored the burgeoning planned obsolescence of male and female, which would eventually be rebranded as Human 2.0 where flesh melds with […]

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