Japanese dairy farmers are getting robots to milk their cows, as a labor crunch forces businesses to step up capital spending on robotics and information technology.
Over the centuries, humans have created countless technologies to save ourselves from backbreaking physical labor and mindless routine. AI continues that progress by taking over many rote cognitive tasks that don’t require human judgment, strategic planning or creativity. Whether it’s browsing millions of legal documents or scrutinizing CT scans, machines can now do much expert work faster and more precisely than their human creators. New forms of artificial intelligence will surpass us in new and surprising ways, thanks to machine-learning techniques that generate their own knowledge—and even their own code. Humans,...
Japanese dairy farmers are getting robots to milk their cows, as a labor crunch forces businesses to step up capital spending on robotics and information technology.
Genomics is coming to psychiatry, with some doctors using a gene test to figure out the most effective anti-depressant for a patient.
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