First China-made 'smart' ship debuts in Shanghai

China's first "smart" ship embedded with a domestically-developed intelligent navigation system made its debut in Shanghai Tuesday.

AI robots will put millions of jobs at risk

 Can the global economy adapt to greater than 50 percent unemployment?...

Robots attack labor shortage

An array of mechanical arms and complex machines are poised to replace the human assembly line workers at the Everwin Precision Technology Co., which will become the first factory in Guangdong Province to become fully automated under a new "replace human workers with robot workers" policy, China Youth Daily reported.

Robots to Take 30% of Jobs Within a Decade

One-third of jobs now performed by humans will be replaced by software, robots, and smart machines by 2025, according to a prediction by information technology research and advisory firm Gartner.

Eco Felaketi - Geo News (February 2015 - b)

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Stephen Hawking a ouvert le bal des hostilités en novembre 2014. Sur un ton quasi-apocalyptique, il avait assuré à la chaîne britannique BBC que "le développement d’une intelligence artificielle pourrait mettre fin à l’humanité".................L'intelligence artificielle inquiète les grands cerveaux contemporains

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(February 2015 - a)

Stephen Hawking: Artificial Intelligence could spell end of human race

World-famous physicist Stephen Hawking told the BBC he believes future developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to eradicate mankind.
The Cambridge professor, who relies on a form of artificial intelligence to communicate, said if technology could match human capabilities “it would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate.”