Article "Why Are You Fretting About The Robot Economy? We Are Already There"
by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
July 21, 2014
Why I Automate
Published on Mar 12, 2014
Article "Why I Automate: Engineered Machined Products, Inc."Watch this video from Engineered Machine Products on why they automate.
April 30, 2014
Transitions for society: job guarantee and basic income
Published on Oct 14, 2014
This film presents a huge social problem called technological unemployment. Whilst doing so, the film also presents two potential solutions to this major social issue. The transitional path described in the film concerns a transition towards a job guarantee program of environmentally sustainable, socially and scientifically beneficial jobs through a public service program organised by the government, coupled with an eventual transition towards an Unconditional Basic Income.
It is up to the viewer to decide on whether they see such a transitional path being a realistic consideration for governments around the world to think about.
Published on Mar 28, 2014
Intuitively, one might indeed suppose that lifelong bliss would make us weak. Contrast, for instance, the Eloi with the Morlocks in H.G. Well's The Time Machine. In practice, the opposite is true. "That which does not crush me makes me stronger," said Nietzsche, but the best way to make ourselves stronger short of becoming cyborgs is to amplify our pleasure circuitry and enhance our capacity to anticipate reward. Experimentally, it can be shown that enhancing mesolimbic dopamine function doesn't just make us happier: it also enriches willpower and motivation. This is how novel antidepressants are tested: if effective, they reverse learned helplessness and behavioral despair of clinical depression, the plight of hundreds of millions of people in the world today. Regrettably, low mood is bound up with psychological and physical weakness, just as popular stereotype suggests. Superhappiness confers superhuman resilience. So enriching our reward circuitry promises to enhance our capacity to cope with stress and adversity even as their incidence and severity diminish. Biotech can empower us to become supermen — not in the callous sense of Nietzschean Ubermenschen, since our enhanced empathetic capacity can extend to all sentient beings, but in the sense of an indomitable strength of mind. Sadly, millions of people today feel hopelessly crushed by life.
Published on Feb 13, 2014
As technology speeds forward, humans are beginning to imagine the day when robots will fill the roles promised to us in science fiction. But what should we be thinking about TODAY, as robots like military and delivery drones become a real part of our society? How should robots be programmed to interact with us? How should we treat robots? And who is responsible for a robot's actions? As we look at the unexpected impact of new technologies, we are obligated as a society to consider the moral and ethical implications of robotics.
Published on Feb 7, 2014
The hot new book about the digital economy is Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson's The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity In a Time of Brilliant Technologies. It's amongst the first books to seriously address the fundamental question of our digital economy: what will be the economic role of human-beings in an age of artificial intelligence, 3D printers and an Internet of things? Andrew Keen talks to Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson about their new book, "The Second Machine Age."
Charles Kemp: How Do People Respond to Being Touched by a Robot?
Published on Oct 13, 2013
How might people react if they were touched by a robot? Would they recoil, or would they take it in stride? In an initial study, researchers at Georgia Tech found people generally had a positive response toward being touched by a robotic nurse, but that their perception of the robot's intent made a significant difference.
Charles Kemp, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and Tiffany Chen, doctoral student at Tech, talk about their investigation that looks at how being attended by a robot can affect people's comfort level.
The research took place in Kemp's Healthcare Robotics Lab with the robot known as Cody. Cody is now sporting new Xbox 360 Kinect headgear, gear that he didn't have in the initial study.
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