Singularity Now! The Artificial Intelligence Timeline: A reader's and investor's guide to the technological event horizon, artificial intelligence, automation, robotics and beyond (February 2017)

Description

(Singularity Now is a nonfiction news mash-up covering advances in artificial intelligence and other high technologies building to the singularity. This edition summarizes more than 175 articles with more than 240 citations.) Developments in high technology are advancing at a blistering rate that far outpaces anybody’s ability to fully assimilate it all into a comprehensive picture. Such a picture is not what you will find in these pages. Instead, this book series compiles summaries of news articles, columns, blogs and scientific studies focusing on the technologies that will ultimately birth the singularity: artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous machines; and, perhaps to a lesser extent, augmented reality and biotechnology. The methodology of article selection and compilation is not scientific, and the sample size is not statistically significant. Nonetheless, almost daily throughout the month, top AI stories are selected, condensed and encapsulated for clarity and brevity. The result is a running log of nugget paragraph entries that reflect the gist of the biggest AI stories to hit the net in the last month. The intent of this book series is not to present the current state of the technology in the public sphere, but to highlight the public discussion centered on it, to present a sampler platter of the innovations being unveiled daily, and to reveal the full extent to which these technologies are already entrenched in the gears of our civilization. This month’s edition features robo Japanimation wives that can manage your smart house, cat-sized AI robo spiders that can climb stairs and navigate obstacle courses, automated fast-speed lawyering augmented by paralegal bots, AI personal assistants fact checking and record crunching for members and staffers of Japan’s legislative body, human rights concerns raised amid precrime forecasting cop bots, the dawning of a jobless and middle classless future, and the most astounding releases from tech mecca fest CES in Vegas.