Your AI radiologist will not be with you soonAI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton once predicted radiologists would be obsolete within five years. Instead, radiologists remain in high demand, wi...
15 May, 2025, 11.55 AM IST
Nations meet at UN for 'killer robot' talks as regulation lagsThe UN is holding its first General Assembly meeting on autonomous weapons, aiming to revive stalled efforts to regulate AI-controlled arms...
12 May, 2025, 07.11 PM IST
AI is making robots smarter. They’ll need boundariesRobots are already roaming factory and warehouse floors, and AI will make them smarter and more agile. As is usually the case with new tech...
12 Jun, 2024, 09.36 AM IST
US-China competition to field military drone swarms could fuel global arms raceThe planners envision a scenario in which hundreds, even thousands of the machines engage in coordinated battle. A single controller might ...
12 Apr, 2024, 04.27 PM IST
Is AI a job killer or a job creator? What history tells usArtificial Intelligence (AI) has raised concerns about job displacement, but throughout history, technological advancements have created mo...
26 Oct, 2023, 04.48 PM IST
Scouting out the next wave of robot workersAutomation might not be ready to over the Amazon warehouse yet but the robot revolution has certainly begun and accelerated by the pandemic.
31 Jul, 2023, 09.14 AM IST
The robots we were afraid of are already hereA humanoid warehouse worker, Digit walked upright on goatlike legs and grabbed bins off a shelf with muscular arms made from aerospace-grad...
29 Jul, 2023, 12.40 PM IST
Israel quietly embeds AI systems in deadly military operationsDetails of the army’s operational use of AI remain largely classified, yet statements from military officials suggest that the IDF has gain...
17 Jul, 2023, 03.37 PM IST
Will AI really destroy humanity?Paperclips of doom - Most disaster scenarios start in the same place: machines will outstrip human capacities, escape human control and ref...
27 Jun, 2023, 11.07 AM IST
The next fear on AI: Hollywood's killer robots become the military's toolsIn the military, AI-infused systems can speed up the tempo of battlefield decisions to such a degree that they create entirely new risks of...
06 May, 2023, 03.56 PM IST
'The godfather of AI' leaves Google and warns of danger aheadHinton said he has quit his job at Google, where he has worked for more than decade and became one of the most respected voices in the fiel...
02 May, 2023, 12.09 AM IST
The scientist and the AI-assisted, remote-control killing machineSince 2004, when the Israeli government ordered its foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons...
19 Sep, 2021, 08.53 AM IST
Humanoid robots won't just imitate humans, but learn problem-solving with help from AIRecently, a humanoid robot named Erica stunned audience members in Madrid.
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In an eventful 2017, Elon Musk my ‘Person of the Year’Aadhaar will be the Aadhaar (foundation) of India’s high-rise in a digitalised world.
26 Dec, 2017, 11.51 AM IST
UN to host first talks on use of 'killer robots'Proponents of a ban, including the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots pressure group, insist that human beings must ultimately be responsible f...
10 Nov, 2017, 10.42 PM IST
Here's why we should be building killer robotsAutonomous weapons would take human soldiers out of the line of fire and reduce the number of casualties. Robots would be better soldiers.
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13 scientific predictions for 2015Some incredible things happened in the science world in 2014, but one of the best things about science is that we learn more and make progr...
12 Jan, 2015, 12.56 PM IST