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    Artificial intelligence made a pop album

    Break Free Taryn Southern

    Actress and Singer Taryn Southern recently recorded an entire pop album, using the software Amper as the writer and producer. What do you expect? No feeling, no emotions, weird sounds? This time it’s different. Check out the track “Break Free” from the album I AM AI here: Doesn’t sound so artificial, right? Considering that many […] More

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    OpenAI vs. Top DOTA2 Players

    On August 11, 2017, OpenAI played 1v1-matches against the world leading DOTA2-players. And it won every match. This kind of news we hear more and more often. After IBM’s DeepBlue victory over world-leading chess player Gary Kasparov in 1997, present-day AI defeated the world leading Go player this year. The most interesting aspect is the […] More

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    Robot and Frank – becomes reality

    In Jake Schreiers’s 2012 science-fiction comedy-drama „Robot & Frank“, aging thief Frank Langella lives alone and suffers from dementia. His adult son (James Marsden) buys him a domestic robot – against his will. Robot and Frank eventually become friends, and he uses the little helper to reboot his career as a burglar. Cute, funny, charming, […] More

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    This worm supports science!

    There are many approaches on how to create an artificial intelligence. The most obvious one is to learn from nature – knowing and understanding the human brain. This leads to the question of the correlation between the neural network and human consciousness. What makes us react on something? Or interact? via GIPHY We are driven […] More

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    Robocop Realness

    We all know the Robocop-franchise, started 1987 by the great Paul Verhoeven. Peter Weller portraying a perfect symbiosis of human and machine fighting crime. via GIPHY Human decision making with the power of a machine. Since many years police and military forces research exoskeletons, the autonomous soldier and drones. Nowadays many of them are already […] More

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    Skynet – if I would just have read Asimov…

    During my researches in science-fiction, artificial intelligence came in many forms, and threats. Particularly “Skynet” in the original The Terminator movie by James Cameron caught my attention. It is widely known for Arnold Schwarzenegger as a machine having a conflict with a boy who will save the world some day. But why? The rise of […] More