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There’s a lot we don’t know about the future, but it’s a pretty good bet that many of our systems and infrastructure will be automated. From thermostats to speakers to robot butlers, the Utopian version of Terminator 2 is almost becoming a reality. And the best part is, you don’t have to be a fancy scientist to take advantage of this new era. 

Familiarize yourself with all the necessary skills with the Voice, Chat, and Vision Automation Bundle. This five-course bundle teaches you enough to hit the ground running and become an automation machine. So, what does it include? Read more…

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A robot sawed through a wall while carrying the Olympic flame (and yet humanity still stands)

It’s 2017 so of course the phrase, “a robot cut through a wall to pass the Olympic torch on to its creator” is a real sentence to describe a real thing that actually happened. 
On Monday, “Hubo,” a robot created at the Korean Advanced Instit…

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If you thought you missed your chance to major in computer science when you opted for art history in college, there’s good news after all. There are such things as second chances, and thanks to the influx of online learning, gaining a new skill set won’t require you to dip into your savings. This Computer Science training is just $39 — that’s equivalent to just 4.8 months of Netflix.

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San Francisco made things much tougher for robotic delivery startups this week

 San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors made it a lot tougher to test delivery robots this week. In a five to one vote, the committee handed down some strict regulations on on the cargo bots, which have been piloted on city sidewalks over the past several months. Supervisor Norman Yee, who initially proposed the regulation cited concerns around the ‘bots essentially taking over… Read More

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CEO of automation company ABB says we shouldn’t fear automation

 Here’s a surprise: at our Disrupt Berlin event, Ulrich Spiesshofer, the CEO of 125-year old automation giant ABB,  argued that automation is nothing to fear. “I think we need to take this fear extremely seriously and get people out of this fear,” he said. In his view, automation and robotics has allowed millions of people to move beyond the extreme poverty line and… Read More

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Meet the next big thing in the world of artificial intelligence

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If you’ve ever trained a puppy before, you know just how valuable food rewards can be. After little Sparky realizes that the act of rolling over instantly earns him a mouthful of peanut butter, he starts performing the trick with increased enthusiasm and speed. (Good boy, Sparky!)

This type of behavioral psychology — getting something to act a certain way so that it maximizes its rewards — has inspired a new approach to artificial intelligence called reinforcement learning. Named one of the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2017 by the MIT Technology Review, this revolutionary kind of machine learning allows computers to learn new things without human intervention through the mere act of experimenting.  Read more…

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