Shel Holtz and I recorded the December edition of the monthly Hobson & Holtz Report podcast. It is the final FIR episode of 2017: FIR will return on January 8, 2018, in an all-new format. Listen to this episode for details! This month’s topics: A group of UK newspapers using robots to help write stories Research that found higher engagement for tweets that took advantage of the new 280 character count Storify, a great curation tool aimed at journalists, is shutting down … [Read more...] about For Immediate Release 118: Longer tweets, creepy tweets, and tweetstorms
Robots
Who should die when a driverless car crashes? Q&A ponders the future
In the 2004 science fiction film I, Robot, the police detective hero played by Will Smith is in a car crash resulting in his vehicle and another sinking in a river. The other car contains a trapped 12-year-old girl. With imminent death by drowning confronting both characters, a rescue robot appears and rescues the hero from his doomed car but leaves the girl to die. Why? Because, the robot's logic tells it, her survival was statistically less likely than the Will Smith character's. This … [Read more...] about Who should die when a driverless car crashes? Q&A ponders the future
Genevieve Bell: ‘Humanity’s greatest fear is about being irrelevant’
Does being scared about AI have more to do with our fear of each other than with killer robots? Perhaps what we're seeing now isn’t an anxiety about artificial intelligence per se, it’s about what it says about us. A compelling view from Intel's head of sensing and insights that may change how you see the evolving role of AI in contemporary society. Indeed, of our role. This article titled "Genevieve Bell: ‘Humanity’s greatest fear is about being irrelevant’" was written by Ian … [Read more...] about Genevieve Bell: ‘Humanity’s greatest fear is about being irrelevant’
Why a robot could be the best boss you’ve ever had
Designed with strong technical expertise and high intelligence, it’s not so far-fetched that the robots of the future could outperform human managers. This article titled "Why a robot could be the best boss you've ever had" was written by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, for theguardian.com on Friday 9th September 2016 07.00 UTCWould you like to work for a robot? Although the automation of skilled jobs is a reality, your boss is probably (still) a human. Even though the most optimistic artificial … [Read more...] about Why a robot could be the best boss you’ve ever had