Artificial intelligence could soon revolutionize the way doctors treat cancer [intersting]

Cancer is a tricky disease to treat. With more than one hundred known types, each responding differently to treatment depending on the person they’re growing inside and dozens of other factors, oncologists certainly have their work cut out for them.

Machine learning just got more human with Google’s RankBrain

One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction. – Nathan Bateman in Ex Machina

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg hopes to show off his Jarvis-like home AI next month [INTERSTING]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is living at least a few years out ahead of anyone reading this post – the founding executive told an audience in Rome today that he hopes to demonstrate his home’s artificial intelligence system, which controls things like air conditioning, lighting and more based on things like face and voice recognition.

These robot spiders offer a glimpse into the future of swarm construction---{AMAZING]

Spiders are creatures capable of producing feelings of both fear and wonder. Presumably, the distinction is how far away from your house they remain. Of course, after seeing these spiders, or ‘spiderbots’ to be exact, that could soon change.

A robot tattooist could make you think twice about getting inked

In further proof that robots are here to steal our jobs, a new industrial robot could soon be tattooing you. On one hand, you don’t have to undergo hours of small talk about what that Nyan Cat on your inner thigh really means to you on an existential level. On the flip side, it’s a fucking robot brandishing a sharp object and stabbing you repeatedly.