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ChatGPT parent company OpenAI to open first office outside the US in London
CEO Sam Altman says London location is an “opportunity to attract world-class talent”.
As artificial intelligence (AI) takes center stage globally, with new regulations on the horizon, a leading firm in the space is looking to expand internationally.
San Francisco-based ChatGPT’s parent company OpenAI announced this week that it would begin to expand outside the US, with London selected as the location for its first international office.
This is what it’s like to control an autonomous car from miles away
The exit ramp is a long, curving slope, and you have to make sure the 50-foot big rig you’re driving carefully navigates the bend and doesn’t fly out of control at a high speed.
But the thing is, you’re not actually there. You’re in a room in Silicon Valley, watching the ramp unfold in front of you on several screens. That heavy load you’re carrying is thousands of miles away in Florida.
Welcome to teleoperated driving, or remote-controlled driving with a human in front of a steering wheel, brake, and gas pedals, and a “windshield” plastered with monitors. It’s a method that allows autonomous vehicles to operate without anyone inside. Instead, there’s a watchful remote driver, or operator,… More.
Driving a truck is really hard, Seltz-Axmacher admits. Doing it through remote control is maybe just as difficult, until you’ve had enough training. After attempting to remotely back up a 50-foot long trailer between two parked trucks, for instance, he said he returned to the professional truckers with his tail between his legs. On the flip side, long-time truck drivers still require practice for remote control driving and go through one-week trainings to get used to operating a truck from in front of a monitor instead of the road.
Phantom operator McCarter finds remote driving similar to traditional driving, since both are high-focus tasks. In the case of teleoperating, McCarter is only monitoring the situation. He says his actual driving sessions are usually shorter, popping in to solve an “edge case” — like if an autonomous delivery robot encounters an unexpected construction crew fixing a pothole. Then McCarter, who has been monitoring the ride, is alerted and he can jump in, get around the construction site, and hand the reins back to the autonomous bot.
Remote-controlled vehicles might also help us get used to autonomy. A Capgemini study (opens in a new tab) on autonomous car perceptions from last month found that about half of consumers trust self-driving cars to run errands for them or pick up and drop off friends and family members. Just under 50 percent of more than 5,500 consumers surveyed said self-driving cars invoke “fear.” It’s comforting knowing there’s a human right there who can take over, even if they’re miles away.
How businesses can break through the ChatGPT hype with ‘workable AI’
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New products like ChatGPT have captivated the public, but what will the actual money-making applications be? Will they offer sporadic business success stories lost in a sea of noise, or are we at the start of a true paradigm shift? What will it take to develop AI systems that are actually workable?
To chart AI’s future, we can draw valuable lessons from the preceding step-change advance in technology: the Big Data era.
Imagine a multi-limbed cyborg world, made possible by these wearable robot arms
I want one so I can do my chores better. But.
Seriously, this is cool.
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Masahiko Inami and his team at the University of Tokyo have developed a wearable multi-armed device called “Jizai Arms”, to study social interaction among users of robotic limbs. Controlled remotely, the device has sockets for up to six articulated arms that can be removed and attached. The project seeks to explore how technology can function as an extension of the human body.
New ferroelectric material could give robots muscles
A new type of ferroelectric polymer that is exceptionally good at converting electrical energy into mechanical strain holds promise as a high-performance motion controller or “actuator” with great potential for applications in medical devices, advanced robotics, and precision positioning systems, according to a team of international researchers led by Penn State.
Mechanical strain, how a material changes shape when force is applied, is an important property for an actuator, which is any material that will change or deform when an external force such as electrical energy is applied. Traditionally, these actuator materials were rigid, but soft actuators such as ferrroelectric polymers display higher flexibility and environmental adaptability.
The research demonstrated the potential of ferroelectric polymer nanocomposites to overcome the limitations of traditional piezoelectric polymer composites, offering a promising avenue for the development of soft actuators with enhanced strain performance and mechanical energy density. Soft actuators are especially of interest to robotics researchers due to its strength, power and flexibility.
Facebook’s Chief AI Scientist Says LLMs Are Just a Passing Fad
Facebook’s AI guru and machine learning pioneer Yann Lecun is coming for the artificial intelligence chatbot craze — and it may put him at odds with his own employer.
As Fortune reports, Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann Lecun admitted during a talk in Paris this week that he’s not exactly a fan of the current spate of chatbots and the large language models (LLMs) they’re built on.
“A lot of people are imagining all kinds of catastrophe scenarios because of AI, and it’s because they have in mind these auto-regressive LLMs that kind of spew nonsense sometimes,” he told the Meta Innovation Press Day crowd. “They say it’s not safe. They are right. It’s not. But it’s also not the future.”