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New Proxie robot beats costly humanoids with AI-powered efficiency

Proxie by Cobot automates tasks, enabling teams to focus on high-value work. https://link.ie.social/1TJU7S

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Proxie is a more direct and practical solution in an industry where many companies gravitate toward super-advanced humanoid robots. Brad Porter explains that while humanoid robots represent an exciting frontier, their high costs and variable reliability pose significant barriers to widespread deployment.

“At Amazon, we looked a lot at humanoids,” Porter remarks. “Here are real problems to be solved with something more human capable, but jumping all the way to a humanoid is super complicated. The AI is not really there yet.”

Instead, Proxie is designed to efficiently handle the simpler, essential tasks humans prefer to avoid, reflecting a more immediate application of robotic technology in everyday operations. This approach aligns with industry trends where simplicity and reliability in automation are becoming increasingly important.

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Ben Goertzel — A Path to Beneficial Superintelligence

Watch Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET and ASI Alliance, discuss the path to beneficial Superintelligence.

Recorded at the Superintelligence Summit held by Ocean Protocol in Bangkok on November 11, 2024.

SingularityNET was founded by Dr. Ben Goertzel with the mission of creating a decentralized, democratic, inclusive, and beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). An AGI that is not dependent on any central entity, is open to anyone, and is not restricted to the narrow goals of a single corporation or even a single country.

The SingularityNET team includes seasoned engineers, scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and marketers. Our core platform and AI teams are further complemented by specialized teams devoted to application areas such as finance, robotics, biomedical AI, media, arts, and entertainment.

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‘Droidspeak’: AI Agents Now Have Their Own Language Thanks to Microsoft

Getting AIs to work together could be a powerful force multiplier for the technology.

Philip Feldman at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County told New Scientist that the resulting communication speed-ups could help multi-agent systems tackle bigger, more complex problems than possible using natural language.

But the researchers say there’s still plenty of room for improvement. For a start, it would be helpful if models of different sizes and configurations could communicate. And they could squeeze out even bigger computational savings by compressing the intermediate representations before transferring them between models.

However, it seems likely this is just the first step towards a future in which the diversity of machine languages rivals that of human ones.

NASA tests cellphone-sized underwater robots for future ocean world missions (video)

Designed to one day search for evidence of life in the briny ocean beneath the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa, these robots could play a key role in detecting chemical and temperature signals that might indicate alien life, according to scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who designed and tested the robots.

“People might ask, why is NASA developing an underwater robot for space exploration?” said Ethan Schaler, the project’s principal investigator at JPL. “It’s because there are places we want to go in the solar system to look for life, and we think life needs water.”

Robots on the road: Austin’s ever evolving autonomous vehicle network

At some point in the early 1900s, cars started showing up among all the horses in Austin. It must have been a strange time, fraught with concerns about how vehicles and horses would share the streets.

Somehow, we got through it — although, occasionally, you can still spot a horse downtown.

But a new dynamic is taking shape now. While autonomous vehicles are nothing new for Austin — they’ve been tested here for nearly a decade — many people are still being caught off guard when a car with no one in it cruises by.

AI and human writers share stylistic fingerprints: New work by researchers detects writing patterns of LLMs

People write with personal style and individual flourishes that set them apart from other writers. So does AI, including top programs like Chat GPT, new Johns Hopkins University-led research finds.

A new tool can not only detect writing created by AI, it can predict which created it, findings that could help identify school cheaters and the language programs favored by people spreading online disinformation.

“We’re the first to show that AI-generated text shares the same features as human writing, and that this can be used to reliably detect it and attribute it to specific language models,” said author Nicholas Andrews, a senior research scientist at Johns Hopkins’ Human Language Technology Center of Excellence.