Amazing Robots Of The Future

[Mustank]

  On 8/8/2016 at 3:34 AM, Lala81 said:

Everyone here is just waiting for Virtual reality porn or a real life Sex-bot

That's what's driving AI and Robotics!!

Hahahahaha

Woohooooooo!!!!!!

[ins1dious]

I'm starting to think I'm a luddite...

 

Anyway... here's a couple of more updates in our inexorable march towards the shiny arms of our robot overlords.

 

First is the process and the awesome kiva robots that Amazon uses in its warehouse. No ones ever used them at this scale... but than... no one operates on the scale of Amazon anyway.

 

 

Second is an update on Uber's self driving car plans. They now have automated cars running on trial in P'burg, USA.

 

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Near the end of 2014, Uber co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick flew to Pittsburgh on a mission: to hire dozens of the world’s experts in autonomous vehicles. The city is home to Carnegie Mellon University’s robotics department, which has produced many of the biggest names in the newly hot field. Sebastian Thrun, the creator of Google’s self-driving car project, spent seven years researching autonomous robots at CMU, and the project’s former director, Chris Urmson, was a CMU grad student.

 

“Travis had an idea that he wanted to do self-driving,” says John Bares, who had run CMU’s National Robotics Engineering Center for 13 years before founding Carnegie Robotics, a Pittsburgh-based company that makes components for self-driving industrial robots used in mining, farming, and the military. “I turned him down three times. But the case was pretty compelling.” Bares joined Uber in January 2015 and by early 2016 had recruited hundreds of engineers, robotics experts, and even a few car mechanics to join the venture. The goal: to replace Uber’s more than 1 million human drivers with robot drivers—as quickly as possible.

 

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-18/uber-s-first-self-driving-fleet-arrives-in-pittsburgh-this-month-is06r7on

[Lala81]

  On 8/19/2016 at 3:00 AM, ins1dious said:

I'm starting to think I'm a luddite...

 

Anyway... here's a couple of more updates in our inexorable march towards the shiny arms of our robot overlords.

 

First is the process and the awesome kiva robots that Amazon uses in its warehouse. No ones ever used them at this scale... but than... no one operates on the scale of Amazon anyway.

 

 

Second is an update on Uber's self driving car plans. They now have automated cars running on trial in P'burg, USA.

 

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-18/uber-s-first-self-driving-fleet-arrives-in-pittsburgh-this-month-is06r7on

 

Feel sad for the human race. Especially the self driving car part.

 

Edited August 19, 2016 by Lala81

[Karoon]

  On 8/8/2016 at 3:34 AM, Lala81 said:

Everyone here is just waiting for Virtual reality porn or a real life Sex-bot

That's what's driving AI and Robotics!!

Naaah i'm not placing my naked crown jewels anywhere near silicon-sheathed hydraulics... no effing way

[ins1dious]

  On 8/19/2016 at 3:03 AM, Lala81 said:

Feel sad for the human race. Especially the self driving car part.

 

Some bankers took some hit with AI with algorithm based trading... now some want to implement it on a much larger scale... including management... no emotions allowed there.

 

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World’s largest hedge fund to replace managers with artificial intelligence

 

Bridgewater Associates has a team of engineers working on a project to automate decision-making to save time and eliminate human emotional volatility

 

Olivia Solon Thursday 22 December 2016 21.44 GMT

 

The world’s largest hedge fund is building a piece of software to automate the day-to-day management of the firm, including hiring, firing and other strategic decision-making.

 

Bridgewater Associates has a team of software engineers working on the project at the request of billionaire founder Ray Dalio, who wants to ensure the company can run according to his vision even when he’s not there, the Wall Street Journal reported.

 

“The role of many remaining humans at the firm wouldn’t be to make individual choices but to design the criteria by which the system makes decisions, intervening when something isn’t working,” wrote the Journal, which spoke to five former and current employees.

 

The firm, which manages $160bn, created the team of programmers specializing in analytics and artificial intelligence, dubbed the Systematized Intelligence Lab, in early 2015. The unit is headed up by David Ferrucci, who previously led IBM’s development of Watson, the supercomputer that beat humans at Jeopardy! in 2011.

 

The company is already highly data-driven, with meetings recorded and staff asked to grade each other throughout the day using a ratings system called “dots”. The Systematized Intelligence Lab has built a tool that incorporates these ratings into “Baseball Cards” that show employees’ strengths and weaknesses. Another app, dubbed The Contract, gets staff to set goals they want to achieve and then tracks how effectively they follow through.

 

These tools are early applications of PriOS, the over-arching management software that Dalio wants to make three-quarters of all management decisions within five years. The kinds of decisions PriOS could make include finding the right staff for particular job openings and ranking opposing perspectives from multiple team members when there’s a disagreement about how to proceed.

 

The machine will make the decisions, according to a set of principles laid out by Dalio about the company vision.

 

“It’s ambitious, but it’s not unreasonable,” said Devin Fidler, research director at the Institute For The Future, who has built a prototype management system called iCEO. “A lot of management is basically information work, the sort of thing that software can get very good at.”

 

Automated decision-making is appealing to businesses as it can save time and eliminate human emotional volatility.

 

“People have a bad day and it then colors their perception of the world and they make different decisions. In a hedge fund that’s a big deal,” he added.

 

Will people happily accept orders from a robotic manager? Fidler isn’t so sure. “People tend not to accept a message delivered by a machine,” he said, pointing to the need for a human interface.

 

“In companies that are really good at data analytics very often the decision is made by a statistical algorithm but the decision is conveyed by somebody who can put it in an emotional context,” he explained.

 

Futurist Zoltan Istvan, founder of the Transhumanist party, disagrees. “People will follow the will and statistical might of machines,” he said, pointing out that people already outsource way-finding to GPS or the flying of planes to autopilot.

 

However, the period in which people will need to interact with a robot manager will be brief.

 

“Soon there just won’t be any reason to keep us around,” Istvan said. “Sure, humans can fix problems, but machines in a few years time will be able to fix those problems even better.

 

“Bankers will become dinosaurs.”

 

It’s not just the banking sector that will be affected. According to a report by Accenture, artificial intelligence will free people from the drudgery of administrative tasks in many industries. The company surveyed 1,770 managers across 14 countries to find out how artificial intelligence would impact their jobs.

 

“AI will ultimately prove to be cheaper, more efficient, and potentially more impartial in its actions than human beings,” said the authors writing up the results of the survey in Harvard Business Review.

 

However, they didn’t think there was too much cause for concern. “It just means that their jobs will change to focus on things only humans can do.”

 

The authors say that machines would be better at administrative tasks like writing earnings reports and tracking schedules and resources while humans would be better at developing messages to inspire the workforce and drafting strategy.

 

Fidler disagrees. “There’s no reason to believe that a lot of what we think of as strategic work or even creative work can’t be substantially overtaken by software.”

 

However, he said, that software will need some direction. “It needs human decision making to set objectives.”

 

Bridgewater Associates did not respond to a request for comment.

@Radx this thread stopped being all positive and glowing about robots and AI from long back. Any chance of being able to edit the title and include some reference to the negatives also

[Lala81]

  On 12/23/2016 at 9:07 AM, ins1dious said:

Some bankers took some hit with AI with algorithm based trading... now some want to implement it on a much larger scale... including management... no emotions allowed there.

 

 

@Radx this thread stopped being all positive and glowing about robots and AI from long back. Any chance of being able to edit the title and include some reference to the negatives also

Actually from what I been reading, such funds aren't really doing tremendously well either.

[Mustank]

  On 12/23/2016 at 9:31 AM, Lala81 said:

Actually from what I been reading, such funds aren't really doing tremendously well either.

I think I just buy etf

[archcherub]

  On 2/24/2014 at 4:22 AM, Picnic06-Biante15 said:

Robots that can jump like human, coordinates itselfs in flights ......

 

 

yahoo news: 8 Robots That Will Haunt Your Soul

 

 

watch the video : http://sg.entertainment.yahoo.com/video/8-robots-haunt-soul-214037356.html

 

 

 

Our future will be just as in the movies Terminators I, II, III , robots coordinating attacks on human being.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wah crazy technology. I won't be surprised when we turn to robot for sex. Lol.

But not sure if it's a good or bad thing.

We already losing human connections with all our messaging and screen time lor.

 

Wah but if can have robots to fight wars, can we stop NS in Singapore hahahahah

[Watwheels]

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-engineer-marries-robot-after-failing-to-find-human-girlfriend

 

Chinese engineer marries robot after failing to find human girlfriend

 

 

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HANGZHOU - A 31-year-old man, frustrated with his failed attempts to find a girlfriend, decided that he would marry a robot he built instead.

Mr Zheng Jiaja and his creation, which he named Yingying, wed in a simple ceremony in the capital city of Zhejiang province last Friday (March 31), according to local media reports.

The artificial intelligence expert was seen in photos dressed in a black suit, while Yingying wore a black dress and had her head covered with a red scarf.

Mr Zheng's mother and friends were present at the ceremony.

Speaking to the Qianjiang Evening News, one of Mr Zheng's friends said he had grown weary of futile attempts to find a girlfriend.

 

 

 

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Mr Zheng created the robot towards the end of last year. Yingying can reportedly identify Chinese characters and speak some simple words.

There are plans to upgrade her so that she can walk and help out with household chores, a report claimed.

A former employee of telecommunications firm Huawei, Mr Zheng joined Internet venture company Hangzhou Dream Town in 2014.

 

 

Ghost in a ...shell?...Fetish?

Edited April 4, 2017 by Watwheels

[Jamesc]

I disagree with replacing workers with robots.

 

What we should do is turn the workers into robots

 

by messing with their minds.

 

So much simpler and cheaper.

 

 

How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons

The company has undertaken an extraordinary experiment in behavioral science to subtly entice an independent work force to maximize its growth.

 

 

The secretive ride-hailing giant Uber rarely discusses internal matters in public. But in March, facing crises on multiple fronts, top officials convened a call for reporters to insist that Uber was changing its culture and would no longer tolerate “brilliant jerks.”

Notably, the company also announced that it would fix its troubled relationship with drivers, who have complained for years about falling pay and arbitrary treatment.

 

“We’ve underinvested in the driver experience,” a senior official said. “We are now re-examining everything we do in order to rebuild that love.”

 

And yet even as Uber talks up its determination to treat drivers more humanely, it is engaged in an extraordinary behind-the-scenes experiment in behavioral science to manipulate them in the service of its corporate growth — an effort whose dimensions became evident in interviews with several dozen current and former Uber officials, drivers and social scientists, as well as a review of behavioral research.

 

Uber’s innovations reflect the changing ways companies are managing workers amid the rise of the freelance-based “gig economy.” Its drivers are officially independent business owners rather than traditional employees with set schedules. This allows Uber to minimize labor costs, but means it cannot compel drivers to show up at a specific place and time. And this lack of control can wreak havoc on a service whose goal is to seamlessly transport passengers whenever and wherever they want.

 

Uber helps solve this fundamental problem by using psychological inducements and other techniques unearthed by social science to influence when, where and how long drivers work. It’s a quest for a perfectly efficient system: a balance between rider demand and driver supply at the lowest cost to passengers and the company.

 

Employing hundreds of social scientists and data scientists, Uber has experimented with video game techniques, graphics and noncash rewards of little value that can prod drivers into working longer and harder — and sometimes at hours and locations that are less lucrative for them.

 

[2BDriver]

  On 6/3/2016 at 12:33 AM, Kb27 said:

PRC is always vilified for making cheap copies of everything.

So they can make a cheap $5k copy of a $35k robot ?

Are the workers themselves making it at low low cost or are they making an even cheaper robot to replace themselves ?

The highest population of the world "China" is counting on robot innovation to replacing manpower, where should the blue collar work force going to be ????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK9owiGC4Z0

[DACH]

  On 4/16/2017 at 4:13 PM, 2BDriver said:

The highest population of the world "China" is counting on robot innovation to replacing manpower, where should the blue collar work force going to be ????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK9owiGC4Z0

UBI from the income generated from robotic workforce?