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>"Ai-Da Robot, the world's first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, recently opened its first solo exhibition at the Concilio Europeo Dell'Arte venu..."
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“A self-driving car feels, to me at least, less like a portal to a weird future of strange possibilities, and more like an adjacent-possible cul-de-sac to our _...Read More_
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"Sophia the robot has created digital art that will be linked to an NFT and sold — making her the latest to join the art world’s current craze."
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>"At London’s Design Museum, the AI android’s exhibition of paintings provokes a serious feeling of ‘strong wife guy energy’"
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"Art and technology both derive from the Greek word technê—a fact not lost on Aidan Meller, the force behind the world’s first humanoid robot artist, Ai-Da. Named after the pioneering computer programmer Ada Lovelace, she was created to _...Read More_
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It's only natural that people seek emotional connection with virtual assistants and robotic dogs. Unfortunately, that's become a selling point for very invasive technologies. Google hires contractors to listen to conversations recorded by _...Read More_
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>"The minor leagues have been testing the Automated Ball-Strike System. But isn’t yelling and screaming about bad calls half the fun of baseball?"
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