Look out, Rover. Robots are man's new best friend

Industrial robots comprise a
roughly $18 billion annual market,
according to the International
Federation of Robotics. There are
going to be a lot more of them, as
they move into homes, hospitals,
classrooms, and barracks. NextGen
Research has estimated that the
worldwide market for
consumer-oriented service robots
will hit $15 billion by 2015....

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Evolving AI: Review of "The Allure of Machinic Life"

The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI
In this book Jon Johnston has been able to break down complex ideas from scientific publications to a readable version. Jon examines new types of nascent/undeveloped life that come about as a result of technical interactions within human-constructed environments. He starts off by showing how machines came about, how they operate and how they are evolving.

Using these facts as the starting point for his theories on "computational assemblage" and how current research programs on evolution of digital organisms, evolving ai, computer immune systems, artificial protocells, evolutionary robotics, and swarm systems he shows Strong AI will be the result of progress in our understanding of how the human brain actually works.

I think the most unique ideas of the book are on how Artifical intelligence and Artifical life converge as well as his take on humanistic theory. It has a very comprehensive area on the history of cybernetics and its most notable proponents.

Despite 'Terminator,' machines still on our side: Scientists say AI will be humanity's 'Salvation'

Daily News May 26, 2009

AI experts including Reid Simmons
of the Robotics Institute at
Carnegie Mellon University and Ray
Kurzweil say the post-apocalyptic
"Terminator Salvation" scenario is
unlikely. "Kurzweil believes the
technical advancement of the next
few decades will herald a literal
rewiring of the human brain. Given
the shrinking costs of
nanotechnology,...


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