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Mar 14, 2024

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Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

After a decade of investigation, Melbourne researchers have made a discovery that will lead to new ways to treat an aggressive blood cancer ].

Mar 14, 2024

Google’s AI prophet fast tracks singularity prediction

Posted by in categories: life extension, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI, singularity

Other prominent technologists have praised Dr Kurzweil for the accuracy of his predictions, with Google founder Larry Page personally hiring him to the company in 2012, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates describing him as “the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence”

The 76-year-old computer scientist, who has been working on artificial intelligence for more than six decades, cited the exponential progress of computing power in recent decades in order to reinforce his predictions, compiling dozens of charts for his new book.

When asked on the Joe Rogan Experience about what kind of revolutionary changes that AI could bring to society within the next few years, Dr Kurzweil said he believed it would soon be able to reverse human ageing.

Mar 14, 2024

Elon Musk says AI will be smarter than any human next year

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI

Musk made this comment while reposting a clip from Joe Rogans podcast with American computer scientist Ray Kurzweil. The topic was when AI will achieve human-level intelligence. Musk said that “AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year.”

Mar 14, 2024

Claude 3 Haiku: our fastest model yet

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku Claude 3 Haiku is three times faster than its peers for the vast majority of workloads, processing 21K tokens (~30 pages) per second for prompts under 32K tokens.

Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku.

Claude 3 Haiku is three times faster than its peers for the vast majority of workloads, processing 21K tokens (~30 pages) per second for prompts under 32K tokens.

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Mar 14, 2024

Robotic breakthrough

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Figure: We are now having full conversations with Figure 1, thanks to our partnership with OpenAI.

Our robot can: — describe its visual experience — plan future actions — reflect on its memory — explain its reasoning verbally.

Mar 13, 2024

Bear Robotics, a robot waiter startup, just picked up $60M from LG

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI

LG Electronics may no longer be a household name in smartphones, but it still sees a big future in gadgets like robots. Today, the company confirmed a $60 million investment in Bear Robotics, the California startup that makes artificial intelligence–powered server robots (autonomous tray towers on wheels that are meant to replace waiters) for restaurants and other venues. With the investment, LG Electronics becomes Bear’s largest shareholder.

Bear’s last fundraise in 2022 valued the company at just over $490 million post-money, per PitchBook data. It’s not clear what the valuation is for this latest investment, but the last year has not been a great one for startups in the space.

On the other hand, the current vogue for all things AI, and the general advances that are coming with that, are giving robotics players a fillip — see yesterday’s Covariant news, for another example. Still, it’s not clear what Bear hopes to tackle next with the basic trays-on-wheels form factor that it has adopted for its flagship Servi robots.

Mar 13, 2024

New traffic signal would improve travel time for both pedestrians and vehicles, says modeling study

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Adding a fourth light to traffic signals—in addition to red, green, and yellow—would shorten wait times at street corners for pedestrians, as well as improve traffic flow for both autonomous vehicles and human drivers. And the more autonomous vehicles there are in the traffic network, the shorter the wait times for everyone.

Mar 13, 2024

Tesla pushes new FSD Beta v12 update, no new note, but Musk says it’s a ‘big release’

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, transportation

Tesla has started to push a new Full Self-Driving Beta v12 software update. It’s still not going wide, there’s no new release note, but CEO Elon Musk says it’s a “big release”

When talking about Tesla’s Full Self-Driving program, it’s hard not to talk about delays.

Tesla fans would argue that the company is trying to solve a major problem in self-driving and we should cut it some slack when it comes. The counter argument is that Tesla started selling Full Self-Driving since 2016 and by doing it, it created pressure on itself to deliver on its promise.

Mar 13, 2024

OpenAI Says Sora Will Launch in 2024 and Nude Videos Aren’t Off the Table

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, sex

Science and Technology:

I will want to see a video of myself doing sex with some cinema actresses 😍❤️

OpenAI’s premier text-to-video generator is coming in 2024, and the company is not ruling out AI-generated adult content.

Mar 13, 2024

A Leap Towards Building Synthetic Organisms

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

ABOVE: Blackiston and his colleagues dovetailed biology and robotics to generate biobots derived from frog stem cells. These biobots can move due to cilia, small hairlike structures that cover their surfaces. Douglas Blackiston and Sam Kriegman, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Douglas Blackiston, a developmental biologist at Tufts University, has always been fascinated by transformation. Using uncommon model organisms, from caterpillars and butterflies to tadpoles and frogs, he investigates how biology is adaptive. In one of his favorite projects, Blackiston transplanted eyes into the tails of blind tadpoles, restoring their vision in a striking display of tissue plasticity. This led him to an unusual spin-off project, where his work in biology dovetailed with robotics. In this work, Blackiston and his colleagues repurposed frog stem cells into programmable synthetic organisms to explore the design space of cells and their interactions.

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