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08/18/2023
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By Laura Harris
New York Times revises terms of service to prevent tech giants from using its materials to train AI
The New York Times has updated its terms of service to explicitly prohibit tech giants from using the paper’s materials to train artificial intelligence (AI), following their withdrawal from the coalition of media companies and tech giants. According to the revised terms of service, all forms of New York Times content, such as texts, photographs, images, audio and video […]
08/01/2023
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By Zoey Sky
Hollywood actors, writers go on strike to protect their jobs from AI
A staggering 87 percent of actors earn less than $26,000 while Hollywood executives continue to pour more money into advanced artificial intelligence (AI) programs. Many Hollywood actors are now on strike to protest studios taking their likeness and using AI to produce more content, all without paying them a dollar. Some entertainment firms like Disney have refused […]
06/01/2023
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By Arsenio Toledo
Uber Eats to deploy an additional 2,000 delivery robots, putting more jobs in peril
Food delivery company Uber Eats has announced that it will expand the number of four-wheeled robots that will be delivering food on the company’s app. The robots are made by Serve Robotics, and the decision to expand the use of robots was made after a successful pilot of the robot delivery program in Los Angeles. The […]
05/12/2023
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By Ethan Huff
Fast-food employees already being replaced by AI chatbots
Corporations are desperate to shed their human employees in order to replace them with unpaid AI robots whose job it will be to take people’s orders at the fast-food drive-thru. The Ohio-based Wendy’s chain is piloting a program at a corporate-owned location in Columbus that does just this: replace fast-food order-taking employees with an artificial […]
01/05/2021
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By Virgilio Marin
Engineers develop an “octocopter” carpenter drone capable of attaching shingles to a roof using an equipped nail gun
Engineers from the University of Michigan (UMich) have developed a robot carpenter that can autonomously attach roof shingles using an onboard nail gun. The roofing device is an octocopter drone prefigured to make its own calculations on the force required to bury a nail. A human operator just needs to turn a virtual switch to start the roofing. […]
04/10/2019
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By Edsel Cook
U.K. airport introduces a fleet of valet-parking robots
Machines will soon be taking over the jobs of human valets at a major international airport in southeast England. Gatwick Airport recently announced that it is testing a number of valet parking robots for future deployment, making it the first U.K. facility to operate a fleet of the autonomous machines. Airport official explained that the robots […]
04/10/2019
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By Edsel Cook
Release the hounds: Are four-legged robot “dogs” the future of package delivery?
A German robotics company came up with an automated package delivery system that sounds rather like a Decepticon from “Transformers.” Their concept showed a driver-less vehicle that will transport a Swiss-designed quadrupedal robot to the customer’s location. The robot “dog” will disembark from its ride and deliver the package. The company, Continental, designed an automated delivery […]
04/09/2019
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By Edsel Cook
Robots now capable of inspecting aircraft… are we going to lose more jobs to machines?
Aircraft inspection is joining the ranks of human jobs that will one day be taken over by robots. The herald of this takeover is the Swedish-designed Vortex Robot, the prototype of which has just recently succeeded in clambering onto an airplane like a mechanical spider that looks for any problem on the varied surfaces of the vehicle. […]
04/08/2019
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By Lance D Johanson
“Expert” recommends AUTOMATED FASCISM: Says humans should relinquish control to robots
Simon Watson, a lecturer in Robotic Systems at the University of Manchester makes a compelling case for humans to give up their inhibitions, relinquish their “illusions” of control, and trust robots with what they are designed to do. He says people are already under the “illusion” that they are in control, and although he may be right to […]
03/13/2019
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By Frances Bloomfield
RoboWaiter will replace human waiters with automation… and it doesn’t complain about wages or work conditions
“Imagine a world where you walk into a restaurant and you never have to pay tip again,” began Sharon Gai, a designer at the Disrupt NYC Hackathon — an event where developers and engineers had 24 hours to build a new product. Flanked by her teammates, Nina Yang and Irvin Cardenas, Yang continued: “Well if […]
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