machines

Google: Calm Down, Artificial Intelligence Research Won’t Lead To Robot Revolution

Google: Calm Down, Artificial Intelligence Research Won’t Lead To Robot Revolution

For those of you eyeing your smart refrigerators and with suspicion and demanding that Siri tell you her plans to precipitate the downfall of humanity, Google wants everyone to take a chill pill. The company’s head of artificial intelligence research is trying to reassure folks that Google’s work in that field won’t lead to the eventual extermination of the human race by robots. [More]

The Inside Of A Coke Freestyle Machine Looks Like A Complicated Inkjet Printer

The Inside Of A Coke Freestyle Machine Looks Like A Complicated Inkjet Printer

Here at Consumerist, we enjoy the Coke Freestyle soda machine, because if we’re going to drink one or two soft drinks per month, by gosh at least one of them should be strawberry-peach Sprite. Yet we never wondered what’s inside the machine, other than magic. Until now. [More]