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How 'Robo-Journalists' Could Flood the Internet with Fake News
Certain media outlets already use software to pump out content, and there's nothing to stop propagandists doing the same.
Brendan Scott
3.14.17
Tech
Here's a Machine, Learning
What if this is how artificial intelligence really works?
Adrianne Jeffries
7.29.16
Tech
This Robot Mom Builds Kids and Judges Which Is Best
It’s survival of the fittest, robo-style.
Emiko Jozuka
8.12.15

Tech
Everybody Run: We've Created a Self-Aware Robot (But Also It's Kind of Cute)
It's often easy to find advances in robot technology a little bit unsettling, if not downright scary. Practically as long as man has been making machines, we've been worried that they'll evolve and one day take over everything. Of course, for this to...
Adam Estes
9.25.12
Tech
RoboSlop: The Future of Automated Eateries Is Now
New Zealand nerds postulating about the future of the sex robot industry. Robot prison guards beginning real-world trials in South Korea. A RoboCop remake currently in pre-production. The robo-apocalypse is coming, and I feel... hungry?
Trevor Macomber
4.20.12