Tag: robots
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Fruitbots Offer a Bizarre Twist on Robotic Design
https://mossandfog.com/fruitbots-offer-a-bizarre-twist-on-robotic-design/
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Weekly digest (17-21 May 2021)
Checco, A., Bracciale, L., Loreti, P., Pinfield, S., & Bianchi, G. (2021, May 17). Can AI be used ethically to assist peer review? Impact of Social Sciences. …an AI tool which screens papers prior to peer review could be used to advise authors to rework their paper before it is sent on for peer review.…
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Comment: Teachers, the Robots Are Coming. But That’s Not a Bad Thing.
…that’s exactly why educators should not be putting their heads in the sand and hoping they never get replaced by an AI-powered robot. They need to play a big role in the development of these technologies so that whatever is produced is ethical and unbiased, improves student learning, and helps teachers spend more time inspiring…
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Comment: Will robots have rights in the future?
If we get to create robots that are also capable of feeling pain then that will be somewhere else that we have to push the circle of moral concern backwards because I certainly think we would have to include them in our moral concern once we’ve actually created beings with capacities, desires, wants, enjoyments, miseries…
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Comment: In competition, people get discouraged by competent robots
After each round, participants filled out a questionnaire rating the robot’s competence, their own competence and the robot’s likability. The researchers found that as the robot performed better, people rated its competence higher, its likability lower and their own competence lower. Lefkowitz, M. (2019). In competition, people get discouraged by competent robots. Cornell Chronicle. This…
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Algorithms are not robots
in AIWe should stop using images of humanoid robots to represent an embodied form of artificial intelligence, especially when the AI being referenced is an algorithm, which in almost all cases in the mainstream media, it is. It’s confusing for readers because we’re nowhere near the kind of general intelligence that these pictures imply. For the…
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Robots in the classroom? Preparing for the automation of teaching | BERA
Agendas around AI and education have been dominated by technology designers and vendors, business interests and corporate reformers. There is a clear need for vigorous responses from educators, students, parents and other groups with a stake in public education. What do we all want from our education systems as AI-driven automation becomes more prominent across…
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I enjoyed reading (January)
This post is also a bit delayed, but I’m OK with that. During January I found myself reading a bit more than usual about robots, androids, augmented reality and related topics. I’m not sure why it worked out that way, but this collection is more or less representative of what I found interesting during that…