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Quote of the day by roboticist Rodney Brooks: "The visual appearance of a robot makes a promise about what it can do and how smart it is"
Just because engineers are building humanoid robots to look like us, that doesn't mean they're intelligent or even capable
"When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before" — Quote of the day by NASA's former software director Margaret Hamilton
There is no computing industry today without software engineering – but the skill of programming once lacked any organization or structure
"C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success" — Quote of the day by the creator of the programming language Dennis Ritchie
One of the software industry's leading lights gave his take on the foundational programming language that he created
Quote of the day by musician Nick Cave on AI-generated lyrics: "A grotesque mockery of what it is to be human"
Nick Cave joins a chorus of artists dismissing the value of using AI in the process of creating art, whether in music or cinema
'It's Stalin's dream' — Quote of the day by software pioneer Richard Stallman on the tracking capabilities of cell phones
The long-time privacy advocate doesn't carry a cell phone to avoid being tracked
Quote of the day by venture capitalist John Doerr on the Segway: 'It'll be bigger than the internet'
Dozens of projects throughout history have suffered from unnecessary hype before failing to capture public attention
Quote of the day by Julian Assange: "If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-backed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces — forever"
Smart glasses are becoming more in vogue today, but the industry is still haunted by the failure of Google Glass
Quote of the day by US president Dwight D Eisenhower: "Public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite"
The internet boom gave rise to a cabal of technology companies that have grown to dominate how much of the world runs
Quote of the day by AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton on AI: "It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things."
A pessimistic take on the domination of AI tools by those with ulterior motives
Quote of the day by Anduril founder Palmer Luckey: "There's no moral high ground to making a land mine that can't tell the difference between a school bus full of children and Russian armor"
The era of 'dumb weapons' is coming to an end, with companies striving to infuse AI and other technologies into the tools of future warfare