Artificial Intelligence

AI is slowly getting more intelligent and is being used for many things, but unfortunately most of them are awful ideas used to analyse our information to predict our every move and manipulate us for profit and power.

Robots

• 3D printed robot spider
• Boston Dynamics Wildcat
• Boston Dynamics LittleDog
• Boston Dynamics BigDog (BigDog beta version)
• Boston Dynamics PetMan PetMan upgraded to Atlas
• Robot hand
• Robot swarm
• Harvard swarm
• Cyborg insect
• Cybernetic arm
• Robot learns to cook by watching youtube
• Robot that can understand its own shape and repair itself
• Kenji: Robot love
• Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force - New MIT system of contracting
• Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines
• Good article on robots taking over jobs
• Decapitated hitchhiking robot could get a new life
• ZeroHedge on robots replacing our jobs
• Scientists create Terminator-style muscle at 1,000 times human strength
• Tinkerbots
• The robots are coming!

Big data and manipulation

• Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
• Facebook's image outage reveals how the company's AI tags your photos
• How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit - the story of how one metric has changed the way you see the world
• Facebook and biometric data
• Facebook Filed A Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Family Photos

Virtual assistants

• Amazon’s Roadmap for Alexa Just May Be the Scariest Thing Big Tech Is Doing
• Inside Amazon’s plan for Alexa to run your entire life - Alexa's creator dreams of a world where it's everywhere, anticipating your every need
• Current state of the big five's AIs

Deep fakes

The "deep fake" genie is out of the bottle, people's faces are being convincingly mapped onto porn videos for revenge and profit motives, and even people's voices can be faked now. We have to be really careful in the coming years to ensure we have established methods with close friends and family to quickly know if we're really talking to them, or to a faceless AI.

• AI fake porn could cast any of us
• Company CEO voice faked to order employees to transfer money

Creative AI

• "Inventive" AI making abstract art just filed for two patents

See also

• Technology
• Awful AI - list of terrible uses for AI to help raise awareness of the problems