An Amazon user in Germany was just able to gain access to an estimated 1,700 voice recordings of an Alexa user — because, get this, of a glitch at the Amazon company. That’s some glitch. It came by way of a “human error,” Amazon reported. But here’s the bigger glitch. In the end, these erroneously...
Pew Research Center asked 979 technology experts, business and policy leaders, scientists and science-minded activists and the like just how they thought artificial intelligence would impact humans by the year 2030 — and while 63 percent waxed positive, another 37 percent warned of the negatives. And one of their biggest concerns? That machines would eventually...
The U.S. Secret Service is testing a new facial recognition program at the White House, supposedly simply to identify their own volunteer agents in the public areas in the vicinity of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. But come on. There’s not a person alive who believes the Secret Service won’t take peaks at passersby. And this program...
Walmart just announced 360 janitor robots with data-collecting capabilities will make their debuts at select stores before the end of January. Let’s hope these ‘bots do better than the ones sent to help astronauts at the International Space Station. Or, the ones already at work in retail shops around the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRJV1SPYpIE “Store Hires Robot...