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

Sophia, the first robot with citizenship, has already said that she will destroy humans, that she wants to have a baby and that a family is really important.
3D printed robot spider
Boston Dynamics Wildcat
Boston Dynamics LittleDog
Boston Dynamics BigDog (BigDog beta version)
~~Boston Dynamics PetMan~~ ~~PetMan upgraded to Atlas~~ 2022 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

Free AI online tools

Copy.ai - create posts about specific topics
Beautiful.ai - creative power point presentations
Hotpot.ai - fix up and colourise old photos and much more
Deep-nostalgia - animate your dead relatives
Pfpmaker - profile picture maker
Brandmark.io - logo maker
deep-image.ai and Bigjpg - image enlargers
Lumen5 - videos for your brand
Namelix - name generator for your brand

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.