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Pocket Workshop: Essays on Living as a Writer, Tod McCoy & M. Huw Evans, eds. (Hy­dra House 978-0997951073, $17.95, 196pp, pb) February 2021. Gathered here are 28 essays (six reprints, 22 originals) by instructors of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, intended, as Tod McCoy explains in his foreword, as “a way to give back to a community who may not be able to attend the workshop by delivering thoughts and insights about writing and process from writers who have taught at Clarion.” Those who might benefit most from these insights, McCoy goes on to say, are neither beginning nor advanced w...

by Max Maxfield Since I spend an inordinate and unfortunate amount of time worrying about the possibility of a forthcoming artificial intelligence (AI) apocalypse, I was delighted to hear that the folks at ETSI have plunged into the fray with regard to establishing the world’s first standardization initiative dedicated toward securing AI. We will return to ETSI’s initiative shortly, but first… To be honest, things are now happening so fast with regard to AI that it’s starting to make my head spin (see also What the FAQ are AI, ANNs, ML, DL, and DNNs?). As I’ve me...

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said farmer unions and the opposition have not been able to point out any lacuna in the three laws.

Read later Summary: Human-robot interaction is upon us - we're in dire need of a framework that makes sense. Asimov's three laws of robotics are one model, but is it applicable to today's robots? An alternative based on robot "empowerment" is worth a close look. It's become increasingly clear that human-robot interaction is expanding rapidly, and it's time to think about how this will work. This article is going to be a little technical and involves some math, so I'll start with the conclusions: Growth in human-robot interactions is happening faster than we thought. These are not devices tha...

Robots got their name 100 years ago today Capek's Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo Exactly one hundred years ago, a play premiered that introduced a significant new word to the world – robot. When the first production of Karel Čapek's R.U.R. opened on January 25, 1921, at the National Theater in what is now the Czech Republic, it not only gave a name to the cybernetic machines that were just beginning to emerge, it also shaped people's perceptions of what a robot is and the potential dangers they pose. R.U.R., which stands for Rossum's Universal Robots, came along at the perf...