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Tool or companion? How we talk to robots says a lot

Tool or companion? How we talk to robots says a lot

Today, everyone talks to machines all day long: from Dragon to Alexa, Siri and voice dictation from your phone, human-machine interaction is more than ever at the heart of our daily lives. . However, this interaction is modulated by many parameters, including how much the machine physically resembles a human. But understanding how we interact with […] … learn more→

Are machines smarter or do they fool us better?

Are machines smarter or do they fool us better?

Alan Turing, one of the fathers of modern computing and precursor of artificial intelligence, argued that in the future there would be machines advanced enough that their actions would be difficult to distinguish from humans. This idea has been extensively covered in literature and brought to the big screen on numerous occasions. Examples include the films The Stepford […] … learn more→