Last week, there was some drama surrounding the Romney campaign, but this time, it wasn't due to the Republican candidate's political leanings; it was over a sudden increase in Twitter followers.
When she heard that robots were writing sports stories, Kelly Kleiman was hardly surprised. But robots writing criticism? "The mind (at least mine) boggles," she writes. "Are reviews really that formulaic?"
My to-do list for 2012: Create invention. Change the world. Get rich.The invention: A robot that goes to meetings for you. Changing the world: In addition to freeing up a load of time, this invention will prevent a ginormous number of needless conflicts.
From industry to pop culture to the military, we’ve long been captivated by robots. We tend to imagine them as our mechanical mirror images – reflections of our most efficient, coldest selves.
