TWS391: AI, Eh? Uh-Oh

On the show this week:

• Think Different. Pray Same.


• Space For Filling


• Non-Traditional

CQ: Which industry will be disrupted first: the clothing industry, when robotic tailors can custom-make clothing locally rather than ship them, or the travel industry, when we can VR remote into robotic surrogates?

Full list of 11 articles after the jump!

• Think Different. Pray Same.:
  
  
  
  • First, they took chess from me, now this?: BBC – The computers being trained to beat you in an argument
  
  
  • Replace the “return” button with “pray”.: New Scientist – Build an AI god? Beware the downsides of this weird tech plan
  
  
  • Make your own Sistine Chapel.: LiveScience – This AI Helps You Paint Like Van Gogh
  
  
  • And the good Lordbot said, ‘let there be food’.: Live Science – Robotic Farm Completes 1st Fully Autonomous Harvest
  
  
  • Asking for a friend. With a cyber brain plan..: Aeon – When you split the brain, do you split the person?
  
  
  • But what if it wants to eat the table?: LiveScience – To Keep AI from ‘Eating a Table,’ Scientists Make It Read Wikipedia
  
  
  
  


• Space For Filling:
  
  
  
  • (EXTRA) This will not help.: Fast Company – “If I Were An Alien, I Wouldn’t Feel All That Welcome Here”: Designing An Invite For Extraterrestrials
  
  
  • (EXTRA) I suppose he’s going to tunnel there..: New Scientist – Elon Musk’s new plans for a moon base and a Mars mission by 2022
  
  
  • (EXTRA) Probably trying to get away from.. everything.: Ars Technica – Why octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia
  
  
  
  


• Non-Traditional:
  
  
  
  • (EXTRA) It’s all about millenials, and had nothing to do with millenials.: Eater – Applebee’s Deserves to Die
  
  
  • (EXTRA) Not necessarily a bad idea — especially for pointing out other bad ideas.: Slate – Hello, Men! Welcome to Your Mandatory Year of Customer Service!