Robotics
Robot Cognition Requires Machines That Both Think And Feel
For more than two millennia, Western thinkers have separated emotion from cognition – emotion being the poorer sibling of the two. Cognition helps to explain the nature of space-time and sends humans to the Moon. Emotion might save the lioness in the savannah, but it also makes humans act irrationally with disconcerting frequency. In the …
Google I/O 2019 | Deep Learning to Solve Challenging Problems
Google I/O 2019 | Deep Learning to Solve Challenging Problems This talk will highlight some of Google Brain’s research and computer systems with an eye toward how it can be used to solve challenging problems, and will relate them to the National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Engineering Challenges for the 21st Century, including the use …
These 7 Disruptive Technologies Could Be Worth Trillions of Dollars
Scientists, technologists, engineers, and visionaries are building the future. Amazing things are in the pipeline. It’s a big deal. But you already knew all that. Such speculation is common. What’s less common? Scale. How big is big? “Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley, Silicon Dock, all of the Silicons around the world, they are dreaming the dream. …