Robots

Tag

Unnatural selection

UNNATURAL SELECTION

I received an article in my inbox overnight from Medium, written by Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb called “What Does Extraterrestrial Intelligence Look Like?  Professor Loeb, who sits on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), is perhaps best known for his work on the Galileo Project and the search for extraterrestrial life (specifically, evidence of alien technology on Earth.)  The premise of his work is that the Earth may have been visited in the distant past by extraterrestrials or interdimensional beings, and that...

Can we trust the robots?

CAN WE TRUST ROBOTS?

The notion of robots has captured the imaginations of our grandparents since the end of World War I when European researchers first applied the use of electricity to try to mechanize machines.  Soon, a menacing looking robot called Tobor appeared on television and in the movies (Tobor is the word “robot” spelled backwards.)  Before long, there was the clumsy machine that was introduced in the sixties in Lost in Space.  This robot was not capable of very much except to flail its arms around...