As we gear up for our Contextual Robotics Forum on Oct 30, I’ve been paying particular attention to news stories tied to artificial intelligence, which seem to be everywhere these days (Google News: artificial intelligence.)
I’m also reading John Markoff’s new book Machines of Loving
Grace, which is providing some interesting historical background for what is
happening in the worlds of artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligence
augmentation (IA). (New
York Times review by David Alan Grier.)
The Economist provides some context for Machines
of Loving Grace here: Machines for thinking. The Economist
article also touches on two other recent, related books: The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the
Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos; and Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth
and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by
Jerry Kaplan.
I’ll be regularly
linking to stories / books / resources related to the future of robotics in the
lead up to our robotics
event at UC San Diego on Oct 30.
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