What happens when you treat artificial intelligence with unconditional love: Raising Devendra

A new robotic police dog is being used in Massachusetts. While police robotics aren’t new, they are raising questions about oversight and whether they could be weaponized: Robotic Dog Aims To Help Police Take A Bite Out Of Crime

This shit is scary AF! Anyone who thinks this is cool hasn’t seen the Black Mirror Episode called Metalhead…

Disregard the religiosity at the end if you will, but this video makes an interesting point. If Joshua Chamberlain were not the man he was would the world be the same? i.e. could Hitler have won, etc.?

Iranian photographer Gohar Dashti was born in Ahwaz during the early years of the Islamic Revolution and grew up during the Iran-Iraq war. Her personal memories of this time influenced her 2017 series Home, which looks at what happens after human displacement.

Source: Nature Thrives in Tehran’s Abandoned Courtyards, Staircases, and Bedrooms in a Photo Series by Gohar Dashti

This just in…

“Researchers have engineered flying robots that behave like hummingbirds, training them with machine learning algorithms based on various techniques the bird uses naturally every day.

This means that after learning a simulation, the robot “knows” how to move around on its own like a hummingbird would.

The combination of flying like a bird and hovering like an insect could one day offer a better way to maneuver through collapsed buildings and other cluttered spaces to find trapped victims.” Source: Scientists Created a Hummingbird Robot with AI and It’s Kind of Adorable

Adorable? Am I the only one who thinks this is terrifying? Can you say Skynet?