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What's a Robot? | January 2013 | Communications of the ACM

What's a Robot? | January 2013 | Communications of the ACM | The Robot Times | Scoop.it

I believe it would be a contribution to our society to encourage deeper thinking about what we in the computing world produce, the tools we use to produce them, the resilience and reliability that these products exhibit and the risks that they may introduce.

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Vint Cerf reflects on the increasing impact that software has directly on the physical environment - call it a robot if you will! I agree that the internet of things opens the door to connected and hidden robotics and that we should consider the impacts more imaginatively.

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Artificially Intelligent Game Bots Pass the Turing Test on Turing’s Centenary | News

Artificially Intelligent Game Bots Pass the Turing Test on Turing’s Centenary | News | The Robot Times | Scoop.it

An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like than half the humans it competed against.

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Real-world beaming: The risk of avatar and robot crime

Real-world beaming: The risk of avatar and robot crime | The Robot Times | Scoop.it
Avatars and robots can now be used to help people "visit" remote locations via the internet - but this raises a host of moral and legal questions.
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