The results were a significant improvement over the values produced by previous methods.
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Unitree’s $16,000 Humanoid Robot Is Ready for Mass Production
Unitree’s humanoid robot just got a mass production upgrade. The G1 will now feature stronger performance, the “ultimate appearance,” and is now more in line with mass production requirements according to Unitree.
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German emergency dispatchers get AI assistant to translate calls and suggest questions
Serious Question, does anyone in here know people who made said AI or run named company? would be interested in system described.
Artificial intelligence is being tested at the Integrated Control Center in Ludwigshafen to save precious time during emergency calls. For example, a computer voice translates for callers who speak a foreign language.
According to an SWR report, the Integrated Control Center in Ludwigshafen is using artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up emergency call handling. Until now, it took valuable minutes when callers only spoke a foreign language. Dispatchers had to quickly find a colleague who could translate, which cost time and caused stress, says Manuel Fischer, head of the integrated rescue service department.
These Soft Robots Can Amputate Their Limbs and Fuse With Other Robots
In another case of technology being inspired by nature, roboticists at The Faboratory at Yale University have developed a way for soft robots to replicate animals and insects by self-amputating a limb or building bridges by temporarily fusing their bodies.
In one of the demo videos, a soft quadruped robot crawls when a falling rock traps its back leg. The reversible joint attaching the leg is heated with current, allowing the robot to break free of its leg and escape, after which the joint could be reattached.
Another video released by the team shows a single crawler robot that’s originally unable to cross the gap between tables. Three robots are then fused together using joints that have been heated and softened by electric current, which allows them to cross the chasm as one unit.
OpenAI’s Project Strawberry will become ChatGPT5, launch soon, and be better at math than any chatbot, insiders say
More details of OpenAI’s secretive Project Strawberry have dropped, including its expected release date and the areas it will specialize in.
A recent report in The Information quotes “two people who have been involved in the effort”, and goes on to say that Project Strawberry could drop this Fall, and be better at math and programming than any chatbot we’ve seen so far.
Why AI Is Creating A Revolution In SaaS Pricing Models
Alvaro Morales is the co-founder and CEO of Orb, a flexible usage-based billing engine for modern software pricing models.
Many SaaS companies want to leverage AI in their products. However, since AI is so new, pricing remains volatile. Costs can drop drastically for an AI model when the next iteration is out, and many companies lower their pricing in response to a competitor launch to gain or retain market share.
In addition to the fluctuating and unpredictable model prices, AI pricing is mostly based on usage. Customer usage is usually difficult to predict, which affects the costs your product will incur if it relies on AI models.
India edges past the UK in critical technologies research; IIT Bombay, Roorkee top performers
India has edged past the United Kingdom by delivering more cutting-edge critical technology research during the period between 2019 and 2023, data published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute on Wednesday (August 28) showed.
The institute updated its critical technology tracker this week by focusing on high-impact research or 10 per cent of the most highly cited papers, as a “leading indicator of a country’s research performance, strategic intent, and potential future science and technology capability”
The tracker covers 64 critical technologies and crucial fields spanning defence, space, energy, the environment, artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, robotics, cyber, computing, advanced materials, and key quantum technology areas.
Scientist Claims His AI Can Tell Disturbing Things About You Just by Looking at Your Face
A Stanford University psychologist named Michal Kosinski claims that AI he’s built can detect your intelligence, sexual preferences, and political leanings with a great degree of accuracy just by scanning your face, Business Insider reports.
Needless to say, Kosinski’s work raises many ethical questions. Is this type of facial recognition research just a high-tech version of phrenology, a pseudoscience popular in the 18th and 19th centuries that sought to find links between facial features and their mental traits?
Absolutely not, Kosinski told Business Insider. If anything, he says his work on facial recognition is a warning to policymakers about the potential dangers of his research and similar work by others.