I originally wrote the ten musings on AI risks as the first half of a talk I was planning to give at the Rise of AI conference in Berlin next month. Unfortunately, plans for speaking at the confe...
http://www.williamhertling.com/2017/04/ten-musings-ai-risks/
World’s shortest Interstellar review: Go see this movie right now. Slightly longer review: I got advanced screening tickets to see Interstellar in 35mm at the Hollywood theatre in Portland. I d...
http://www.williamhertling.com/2014/11/worlds-shortest-interstellar-review/
I only have a limited amount of writing time this week, and I want to focus that time on my next novel. (No, not book 4. That’s off with an editor right now. I’m drafting the novel after that...
http://www.williamhertling.com/2014/11/elon-musk-and-the-risks-of-ai/
ROS, the open source robotics OS, is accelerating development in robotics because scientists don’t have to reinvent everything from scratch: As an example of how ROS works, imagine you’re bu...
http://www.williamhertling.com/2013/05/open-source-robotics-os-accelerating-development/
This is a great post and video about two robots making pancakes together. What’s amazing is that it’s not all preprogrammed. They’re figuring this stuff out on the fly: James uses the Web f...
http://www.williamhertling.com/2013/05/two-robots-making-pancakes-together/
Technological unemployment is the notion that even as innovation creates new opportunities, it destroys old jobs. Automobiles, for example, created entirely new industries (and convenience), but ...
http://www.williamhertling.com/2013/04/technological-unemployment-past-future/
This is PETMAN, the humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics, the same company that created Big Dog. Scary, eh? I’m sure the metal cables attaching near the neck are for stablization, and to protect...
http://www.williamhertling.com/2013/04/petman-the-scarier-humanoid-robot-big-brother-to-big-dog/
Some assorted news: 1) Avogadro Corp hit #2 on the technothriller list, and A.I. Apocalypse hit #5: Both books catapulted to the top of the technothrillers category this week. Thank you to everyo...
http://www.williamhertling.com/2012/07/july-news-bestsellers-smashwords-robot-videos/
Daniel H. Wilson, the award-winning and best selling author of Robopocalypse and Amped, gives an interview to io9. As usual, he’s brilliant and funny: The post Daniel H. Wilson on robots, cyb...
http://www.williamhertling.com/2012/06/daniel-h-wilson-on-robots-cyborgs-and-the-uprising/
The Uncanny Valley by Masahiro Mori is a highly referenced 1970 paper about human reaction to realistic robots. The first authorized and reviewed English translation has been published in the IEE...
http://www.williamhertling.com/2012/06/english-translation-of-the-uncanny-valley/