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DNA FACTORY. "In principle, this method should allow the stepwise and programmed construction of target products by linking individually selected nanoscale components—much as an automobile is built on an assembly line." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7295/full/nature09026.html View in LinkedIn

THE GU ROBOT. "An alternative approach to nanoscale assembly uses information-containing molecules such as DNA to control interactions and thereby minimize unwanted cross-talk between different components." https://lnkd.in/dAgytm4 View in LinkedIn

DISOBEDIENT BOTS. "Uh oh! Robots are learning to disobey humans: Humanoid machine says no to instructions if it thinks it might be hurt." https://lnkd.in/dBdPJkh View in LinkedIn

CHEATING POKER BOTS. "CasinoRobots.com today announced Poker Robot Collusion Edition for Microsoft Windows, an intelligent software robot capable of consistently winning games of Texas Hold'Em Poker at popular online Poker Rooms." http://CasinoRobots.com View in LinkedIn

HORIZONTAL COLLUSION. "When bots collude. Uber’s algorithm can lead to horizontal collusion if the algorithm gives rise to an “alternative universe” that pushes up prices based on the perceived market value of a ride, rather than its actual market value. A human need not be involved." https://lnkd.in/dNpdkZa View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE concludes this weekend on a biological consideration of a sense of place, in particular for peripatetic creatures, whose destiny is to constantly migrate across the globe. These animals have acute geographical sense, and often migrate to very specific destinations, covering many thousands of miles to end up at the exact same nest, for instance, like the swallows in my home. Navigation and timing, cues, and fasting metabolism during transit, all are complex issues. View in LinkedIn

FINE LINE COOPERATION. "Computers can't have a back-room conversation to fix prices, but they can predict the way that other computers are going to behave. And with that information, they can effectively cooperate with each other in advancing their own profit-maximizing interests." http://www.businessinsider.com/robots-colluding-to-manipulate-markets-2015-4 View in LinkedIn

ALPHAGO DESIGN. "These were trained to mimic the moves of the best human players, to reward wins and, using a probability distribution, to limit the outcomes for any board position to a single verdict: win or lose." http://www.nature.com/news/digital-intuition-1.19230 View in LinkedIn

WHEN ROBOTS COLLUDE: "Computers are adopting a legally questionable means to crush the competition. Algorithms can learn to collude." http://www.businessinsider.com/robots-colluding-to-manipulate-markets-2015-4 View in LinkedIn

NEURAL NETWORK PROGRAMMING. "AlphaGo cannot explain how it chooses its moves, but its programmers are more open than Deep Blue’s in publishing how it is built. Previous Go computer programs explore moves at random, but the new technology relies on a suite of deep neural networks." http://www.nature.com/news/digital-intuition-1.19230 View in LinkedIn