I was impressed by an article on Wired showing how catfishing has become a business. That people may pretend to be someone else is nothing new. I remember a movie, long time ago, where one (Italian) character emigrated to Australia pretended to be young, handsome and wealthy to convince a …
Read More »Fooling Turing … and many more
Just the other day I was in a meeting with other IEEE volunteers, discussing how to leverage AI to the benefit of IEEE members. As it often happens, the discussion drifted and focussed on how can we tell if a submitted paper (to our journals, conferences) has been written by …
Read More »Is this “Art”?
I have posted a few times some news on the progress of AI in generating images that can mimic the artistic style of a famous painter, as well as images that seem to show some sort of “imagination”, real creations that can be resemble the ones any human being could …
Read More »Please note: I am not human!
As we were revising the second Symbiotic Autonomous Systems White Paper the authors were in disagreement on the Turing test having been passed. Now, the very fact that such a discussion is taking place points out 2 things: computers (software) have progressed to the point that it may be debatable …
Read More »Disruptive Technologies beyond 2030 for Human Machine Interactions
To complete the list of technologies explored by the Imperial College Foresight study that will lead to disruptions in 2030 lets consider the ones in the Human Machine Interactions area: Avatar companions, Lifelong personal assistants, Humanoid sex robots and Emotionally aware machines. This list is clustering a set of technologies …
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