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It is. based on reinforcement learning algorithms (RL) to allow for quick robot movement.

Robotic dogs have a massive hurdle in autonomous navigation in crowded spaces. Robot navigation in crowds has applications in various fields, including shopping mall service robots, transportation, healthcare, etc.

To facilitate rapid and efficient movement, developing new methods is crucial to enable robots to navigate crowded spaces and obstacles safely.

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Robot navigation in crowds has applications in various fields, including shopping mall service robots, transportation, healthcare, etc.

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Putting a greater emphasis on the development of AGI — artificial general intelligence. CEO Sam Altman has described AGI as “the equivalent of a median human that you could hire as a co-worker.”

The AI startup says its singular goal is to build “safe, beneficial” artificial general intelligence, noting that anything else is “out of scope.”

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In the realm of healthcare, change has always been met with resistance. It took considerable time for the medical community to accept the stethoscope as a valuable tool in patient care. Similarly, it will take a while for Artificial Intelligence (AI) to be recognized as a full-fledged health tool, despite its immense potential to revolutionize the healthcare industry. However, when A.I. eventually takes its rightful place in healthcare, it will displace the stethoscope as its symbol. Let’s dive into how AI is poised to transform the way we approach healthcare.

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Feizi and his coauthors looked at how easy it is for bad actors to evade watermarking attempts. (He calls it “washing out” the watermark.) In addition to demonstrating how attackers might remove watermarks, the study shows how it’s possible to add watermarks to human-generated images, triggering false positives. Released online this week, the preprint paper has yet to be peer-reviewed, but Feizi has been a leading figure in AI detection, so it’s worth paying attention to, even at this early stage.

It’s timely research. Watermarking has emerged as one of the more promising strategies to identify AI-generated images and text. Just as physical watermarks are embedded on paper money and stamps to prove authenticity, digital watermarks are meant to trace the origins of images and text online, helping people spot deepfaked videos and bot-authored books. With the US presidential elections on the horizon in 2024, concerns over manipulated media are high—and some people are already getting fooled. Former US president Donald Trump, for instance, shared a fake video of Anderson Cooper on his Truth Social platform; Cooper’s voice had been AI-cloned.

This summer, OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and several other major AI players pledged to develop watermarking technology to combat misinformation. In late August, Google’s DeepMind released a beta version of its new watermarking tool, SynthID. The hope is that these tools will flag AI content as it’s being generated, in the same way that physical watermarking authenticates dollars as they’re being printed.

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“The CIA and other US intelligence agencies will soon have an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT. The program, revealed on Tuesday by Bloomberg, will train on publicly available data and provide sources alongside its answers so agents can confirm their validity. The aim is for US spies to more easily sift through ever-growing troves of information, although the exact nature of what constitutes “public data” could spark some thorny privacy issues.

“We’ve gone from newspapers and radio, to newspapers and television, to newspapers and cable television, to basic internet, to big data, and it just keeps going,” Randy Nixon, the CIA’s director of Open Source Enterprise, said in an interview with Bloomberg. “We have to find the needles in the needle field.” Nixon’s division plans to distribute the AI tool to US intelligence agencies “soon.””.

The CIA confirmed that it’s developing an AI chatbot for all 18 US intelligence agencies to quickly parse troves of ‘publicly available’ data.

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In this video accompaniment to our paper “ChatGPT for Robotics: Design Principles and Model Abilities”, we demonstrate how ChatGPT can help a user control a real drone with only language instructions.

ChatGPT provided an extremely intuitive interface between the user and the robot, writing robot code based on ambiguous and ill-defined instructions, and asking clarification questions when necessary. The model was also able to write complex code structures for drone navigation (circular and lawnmower inspection) based solely on the prompt’s base APIs.

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Core inflation remains elevated in advanced economies, with economists calling for tighter monetary policies in order to improve price and financial stability for sustained economic growth. With inflation only slowly moving towards sustainable targets, investors can leverage insights into teen spending patterns, behaviors, and advancements in technology to identify broader economic and market trends.

In a recent Piper Sandler Taking Stock With Teens survey that analyzed discretionary spending patterns, fashion trends, technology, and brand and media preferences, inflation was determined to be the number two social concern among teens, pointing to initial signs of a slowdown in teen spending.

“Inflation reached its highest mindshare in terms of political and social issues, right behind the environment,” said Edward Yruma, senior research analyst.

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