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Feb 23, 2024

Google reveals next-generation AI model

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Gemini 1.5 Pro includes a breakthrough in long-context understanding, handling up to 1 million tokens. It can also decipher the content of videos and describe what is happening in a scene.

In the world of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, so-called “tokens” are the fundamental units of text that these models process, akin to words, punctuation, or parts of words in human language.

Feb 23, 2024

Physical effects of learning

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Interacting many-body physical systems ranging from neural networks in the brain to folding proteins to self-modifying electrical circuits can learn to perform diverse tasks. This learning, both in nature and in engineered systems, can occur through evolutionary selection or through dynamical rules that drive active learning from experience. Here, we show that learning in linear physical networks with weak input signals leaves architectural imprints on the Hessian of a physical system. Compared to a generic organization of the system components, (a) the effective physical dimension of the response to inputs decreases, (b) the response of physical degrees of freedom to random perturbations (or system “susceptibility’‘) increases, and © the low-eigenvalue eigenvectors of the Hessian align with the task.

Feb 23, 2024

How to watch the first US moon landing in 50 years

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

Recorded earlier

A robotic spacecraft is expected to touch down on the moon’s surface Thursday night, in what will mark the United States’s first uncrewed commercial moon landing.

Feb 23, 2024

Nuro gets a leg up from Arm in launching its third-generation delivery robot

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI, transportation

“We create the lowest power performance technology,” said Dipti Vachani, senior VP and general manager for Arm’s automotive business, in an interview, “so that Nuro can then take advantage of all that AI software.”

Nuro was founded in 2016 by Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu, two veterans of the Google self-driving car project that would go on to become Waymo. It is one of the few companies operating fully driverless vehicles — that is, vehicles without safety drivers behind the wheel — on public roads today.

Feb 23, 2024

Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”

Posted by in categories: employment, government, life extension, robotics/AI

Called it. already impacting. not even a week later.


I just used AI in two films that are going to be announced soon. That kept me out of makeup for hours. In post and on set, I was able to use this AI technology to avoid ever having to sit through hours of aging makeup.

How are you thinking about approaching the threat that AI poses to certain job categories at your studio and on your productions?

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Feb 22, 2024

Scientists Have Created the World’s Smallest, Lightest, and Fastest Fully Functional Micro-Robots

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

Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider, developed at Washington State University, are the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be created.

Such miniature robots could someday be used for work in areas such as artificial pollination, search and rescue, environmental monitoring, micro-fabrication, or robotic-assisted surgery. Reporting on their work in the proceedings of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, the mini-bug weighs in at eight milligrams while the water strider weighs 55 milligrams. Both can move at about six millimeters a second.

Feb 22, 2024

Opinion: Brilliant adoption of AI

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Khan Academy has come up with a safe and accurate ChatGPT tutor. It’s also the best model we have for how to develop and implement AI for the public good.

Feb 22, 2024

Power-efficient neural network with artificial dendrites

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A memristor-based artificial dendrite enables the neural network to perform high-accuracy computation tasks with reduced power consumption.

Feb 22, 2024

AI billionaire crowns ‘whole new industry’ amid ‘tipping point’ after his company passes Google for third most valuable in the world

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He’s worth $60 billion. I wouldn’t say I didn’t see it coming. The company has been good for a while.


Nvidia cofounder and CEO Jensen Huang, worth over $60 billion after his $1.9 trillion AI giant reported blowout earnings, crowns a “whole new industry.”

Feb 22, 2024

OpenAI’s Sora Unleashes New Text-to-Video Generative AI: It’s Shockingly Powerful

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Late last week, OpenAI announced a new generative AI system named Sora, which produces short videos from text prompts.

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