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Shipping Giants Are Looking to Self-Piloting Boats to Shift Cargo

Millions of containers could be hauled by robotic ships within the next decade.

These projects seek to at least partially turn into reality a vision outlined by Rolls-Royce last year. Long-term, the British engineering firm predicts a future in which cargo ships ply the seas without a single crew member aboard. It reckons that a totally crewless ocean-going cargo ship could be sailing by 2035. But, just like the first wave of driverless cars, ships will gain features, such as autonomous navigation, incrementally. And for the shipping industry, it seems those increments can't come soon enough.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/60806...ift-cargo/

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They're not just for bees! Amazon's delivery drones could soon live in giant HIVES, according to a bizarre new patent

While you might expect a hive to be full of bees, a new patent filed by Amazon suggests that giant versions of the structures could soon be used to house drones.

A patent published today shows a nine-story hive with space for hundreds of drones.

While Amazon has not said when, or if, it plans to create the hives, the patent suggests that they could be used in 'downtown districts' or 'urban areas' where there is little space to build outwards.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...HIVES.html

Carmaking giants and ride-sharing upstarts racing to put autonomous vehicles on the road are dead set on replacing drivers, and that includes truckers. Trucks without human hands at the wheel could be on American roads within a decade, say analysts and industry executives.



At risk is one of the most common jobs in many states, and one of the last remaining careers that offer middle-class pay to those without a college degree. There are 1.7 million truckers in America, and another 1.7 million drivers of taxis, buses and delivery vehicles. That compares with 4.1 million construction workers.



http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-au...-20160924/
 
“It's relatively easy to stage a demonstration that looks impressive but to get to the point where a system is ready for public use is vastly more complicated and challenging, says Steve Shladover, who studies autonomous driving at UC Berkeley. Knight makes the same point, as she crawls under her semi to whack at iced up brakes with a hammer.

 

Challenging doesn't mean impossible, but even as this shift comes, it may not destroy trucking as a human endeavor. Startups Starsky Robotics is developing a driving system that handles the truck on the highway, but relies on a remote human to navigate the much trickier surface streets. The era of the human driver goes on €but life on the road looks a lot different.



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But don't expect to see fleets of self-driving commercial trucks anytime soon.



"The world is not yet ready for large numbers of fully automated trucks and buses on public roads without a person behind the wheel. For many years, a driver will need to be present to monitor system status and deal with the more complex traffic situations. However, the technology is getting mature enough to take control under routine driving conditions such as freeway cruising and in slow moving traffic," according to the report.



So when can we expect driver-less commercial trucks?



"Adoption of fully automated vehicles will happen longer term, beginning in the next decade," according to a Navigant statement.



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I made a robot to help me argue on the internet



Known as “the queen of shitty robots, Swedish inventor Simone Giertz builds robots to help with everyday activities except, they don't work. Well, mechanically they work beautifully, but her robots show we've got a while to go before every part of our life is automated.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...z-inventor

Soon the bots will be doing all the talking and people will only be listening and doing what their told. Choice will be your favorite flavor...
 
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Exclusive: Military œpersona software cost millions, used for classified social media activities

Most people use social media like Facebook and Twitter to share photos of friends and family, chat with friends and strangers about random and amusing diversions, or follow their favorite websites, bands and television shows.

But what does the US military use those same networks for?

Raw Story recently reported that the US Air Force had solicited private sector vendors for something called “persona management software. Such a technology would allow single individuals to command virtual armies of fake, digital “people across numerous social media portals.

These “personas were to have detailed, fictionalized backgrounds, to make them believable to outside observers, and a sophisticated identity protection service was to back them up, preventing suspicious readers from uncovering the real person behind the account. They even worked out ways to game geolocating services, so these personas could be virtually inserted anywhere in the world, providing ostensibly live commentary on real events, even while the operator was not really present.

A fake virtual army of people could be used to help create the impression of consensus opinion in online comment threads, or manipulate social media to the point where valuable stories are suppressed.

Ultimately, this can have the effect of causing a net change to the public's opinions and understanding of key world events.

http://www.rawstory.com/2011/02/exclusiv...ctivities/

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MICRO DRONES KILLER ARMS ROBOTS - AUTONOMOUS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - WARNING !!



It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come. We launched just a few years ago with our surveillance drones, and in this short amount of time, we’ve retooled cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, such as deep learning and convolution neural networks, into hardware systems that governments and peace-keeping agencies can use to keep their troops safe. No more sending our brave patriots home in coffins. Now the artificial intelligence does all of the work. Our autonomous weapons are small, fast, accurate, and unstoppable.
And they are just the beginning. Smart swarms. Adaptive adversarial learning. On-the-field robust target prioritization. AI-powered tactics and strategy a Go master would envy. This is the future of peacekeeping.

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