When interacting with others, people want to be close enough to ensure they can not only perceive others but also be perceived by others (Biocca and Harms, 2002). The medical narrative characteristics of virtual health agents can improve the sense of medical presence. Therefore, we hypothesize ...
Kang Woo Min whispered, close to me. “Never thought about the pain . . . ” Actually, I hadn’t thought about it. Honestly, I was so caught up in the need to be a human being that I hadn’t had time to think about anything else. But Kang Woo Min hadn’t even asked me any...
Learn about factor analysis - a simple way to condense the data in many variables into a just a few variables.
programmed to defer to humans in matters of value and to operate within a framework of uncertain and incomplete knowledge. By ensuring that AI systems are “human-compatible” in this way, Russell argues that we can harness the enormous potential of AI while minimizing the risk of catastrophic ...
About 15 billion years ago, all matter and energy were bottled up in a small region known as a singularity. In an instant, this single point of super-dense material began to expand at an incredibly rapid rate. As the newborn universe expanded, it began to cool down and become less ...
Those are often the hardest to avoid because it’s not immediately obvious where they are located within the robot’s workspace. Workspace Boundary Singularities The other type of singularity occurs at the boundary of the robot’s workspace. Whenever the robot’s TCP gets close to a boundary, ...
Is AI a threat to humanity? It depends on how people in control of AI decide to use the technology. If it falls into the wrong hands, AI could be used to expose people’s personal information, spread misinformation and perpetuate social inequalities, among other malicious use cases. ...
In a more conceptual respect, AI may one day have the potential to meet or surpass human intelligence. You've likely heard of the "singularity", which is a term referring to the point when the growth and evolution of AI becomes unstoppable. This would likely be the result of AI systems ...
It’s an insulator, and it massively accelerates the rate of transmission of the signals. In computers, electrical signals go through wires and travel close to the speed of light. In the brain, it doesn’t travel that fast. If you remember from your college physics class...
Putting all that together, it is possible to build a machine that will do things that we don’t want it to—up to and including wiping us out—and we will not be able to stop it. There are different flavors of this scenario. When Hinton raised his concerns about AI in May, he gave...