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Facebook recently shut down some of its bots after researchers discovered this artificial intelligence had developed its own language. Depending on who you ask, robots are either job stealers, a grave
threat to humanity, the future of elder care or just plain creepy.
Either way, The Conversation Global has been keeping a close eye on our cyborg frenemies. Here are the best stories on artificial intelligence from the world's top experts.
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The robot Berenson in 2015.
Stéphanie Leclerc-Caffarel
Joffrey Becker, Collège de France
Robots are strange creatures, and not only because they might steal our jobs. We humans actually have good reason to be a little worried about these machines.
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Matt Escobar, University of Tokyo
Artificial intelligence is surrounded by fear and mystery because very few understand its inner workings. But it's actually rather intuitive and far simpler than it seems.
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This image was produced by the AI algorithm of the neural network ‘Deep Dream Generator’.
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Marko Robnik-Šikonja, University of Ljubljana
Dire dystopian predictions aside, the real danger of artificial intelligence is not the notorious "AI singularity" but job loss and misuse by malevolent people.
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An early prototype of the IBM Watson cognitive computing system in Yorktown Heights, NY. It was originally the size of a master bedroom in 2011.
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Nafis Alam, Sunway University; Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham
Banks are relying more and more on robots that perform financial services.
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A Japanese dementia patient holds a baby seal robot known as Paro.
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Nola Ries, University of Newcastle; Taro Sugihara, Okayama University
Perhaps communication robots can one day help people express their views on having a robot in their life.
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