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German automaker Mercedes-Benz is deploying Apptronikâs Apollo robots at a manufacturing plant in Hungary.
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Tesla finally releases Autopilot safety data after more than a year
Tesla has finally decided to release its Autopilot safety data report after taking a break of more than a year.
For years, Tesla used to release a âVehicle safety reportâ that tracked miles between accidents in its vehicles based on the level of Autopilot used or not used and compared it to the industry average.
The automaker used the report to claim that its Autopilot technology resulted in a much safer driving experience and that its vehicles would crash much less often than the average car in the US even without Autopilot.
GPT-4 is able to buy stuff on Amazon, researchers say
Still, ChatGPT operates in a mostly siloed fashion. It canât yet venture out âinto the wildâ to execute online tasks. For example, if you wanted to buy a milk frother on Amazon for under $100, ChatGPT might be able to recommend a product or two, and even provide links, but it canât actually navigate Amazon and make the purchase.
Why? Besides obvious concerns, like letting a flawed AI model go on a shopping spree with your credit card, one challenge lies in training AI to successfully navigate graphical user interfaces (GUIs), like your laptop or smartphone screen.
But even the current version of GPT-4 seems to grasp the basic steps of online shopping. Thatâs the takeaway of a recent preprint paper in which AI researchers described how they successfully trained a GPT-4-based agent to âbuyâ products on Amazon. The agent, dubbed the MM-Navigator, did not actually purchase products, but it was able to analyze screenshots of an iOS smartphone screen and specify the appropriate action and where it should click, with impressive accuracy.
NASA partner unveils the âiPhoneâ of robots
Apptronik, a NASA-backed robotics company, has unveiled Apollo, a humanoid robot that could revolutionize the workforce â because thereâs virtually no limit to the number of jobs it can do.
âThe focus for Apptronik is to build one robot that can do thousands of different things,â Jeff Cardenas, the companyâs co-founder and CEO, told Freethink. âThe best way to think of it is kind of like the iPhone of robots.â
The challenge: Robots have been automating repetitive tasks for decades â instead of having a person weld the same two car parts together 100 times a day, for example, an automaker might just add a welding robot to that segment of the assembly line.
NVIDIA Accelerates GPU, CPU, & AI Platform Roadmap, New Chips To Launch Each Consecutive Year Instead of Two
NVIDIA has accelerated its GPU, CPU & AI roadmap significantly as stated by CEO, Jensen Huang, during the latest earnings call.
NVIDIA Will Be Launching Next-Gen GPUs, CPUs & AI Solutions Much Faster Than Everyone Else, Shifts To A 1-Year Cadence Instead of 2-Year
NVIDIAâs current roadmap includes the likes of Hopper H200 and its follow-up Blackwell in B100 & B200 GPUs. The company also previously teased X100 GPUs though we know from recent reports that the actual next-gen architecture comes as the Rubin âR100â series which looks like a major breakthrough for the company based on the specs, performance, and efficiency data that has been laid out.
New nanostrings can vibrate longer than any previously known solid-state object
Researchers from TU Delft and Brown University have engineered string-like resonators capable of vibrating longer at ambient temperature than any previously known solid-state objectâapproaching what is currently only achievable near absolute zero temperatures. Their study, published in Nature Communications, pushes the edge of nanotechnology and machine learning to make some of the worldâs most sensitive mechanical sensors.
A year in training: ESAâs new astronauts graduate
ESAâs newly graduated astronauts reach the end of one year of rigorous basic astronaut training. Discover the journey of Sophie Adenot, Rosemary Coogan, Pablo Ălvarez FernĂĄndez, RaphaĂ«l LiĂ©geois, Marco Sieber, and Australian Space Agency astronaut candidate Katherine Bennell-Pegg. Selected in November 2022, the group began their training in April 2023.
Basic astronaut training provides the candidates with an overall familiarisation and training in various areas, such as spacecraft systems, spacewalks, flight engineering, robotics and life support systems as well as survival and medical training. They received astronaut certification at ESAâs European Astronaut Centre on 22 April 2024.
Following certification, the new astronauts will move on to the next phases of pre-assignment and mission-specific training â paving the way for future missions to the International Space Station and beyond.
Credits:
Video: ESA â European Space Agency.
ISS and EVA footage: ESA/NASA
Music: Scorekeepers.
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