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Humans Need Not Apply

ward 16/01/2018

Humans Need Not Apply basically states and explains that most jobs will be replaced by technology. It is pretty much inevitable and there is nothing us meat-sack humans can do about it.

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The great AI race is now on

ward 14/09/2017

These days the news is full of stories about the rise of AI. Well, Trump, North Korea, Brexit and AIs. Everything is basically alarming and it is hard to know what to be most shit scared about next.

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Every extraterrestrial body robots have landed on

ward 24/08/2016

I came across these pictures and they are amazing. Each one is a photo taken from an extraterrestrial body – i.e. not Earth – by robots. Lucky robots.

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Japanese build robot farms

ward 06/01/2012

The Japanese are cool. When faced with a problem the average modern Japanese person will probably take a photo and then build a robot to fix it. Or maybe I’m … Read More

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