Your New Robot Overlords

Via Reason: The rise and spread of intelligent machines has led to increasing income inequality and anemic job growth. And this dynamic is likely to be permanent.…The American economy is becoming a “hyper-meritocracy” in which workers will either be big...

Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience

Via Instapundit and NYTimes.com: The first commercial version of the new kind of computer chip is scheduled to be released in 2014. Not only can it automate tasks that now require painstaking programming — for example, moving a robot’s arm smoothly and efficiently —...