Robotics/AI – Lifeboat News: The Blog

Dec 7
2023

Meet NeRmo, the mouse robot with backbone

Most quadruped robots ditch spine-derived designs for simplicity’s sake. NeRmo embraces the complex system.

Dec 7
2023

Google reveals Gemini AI, its ‘largest science and engineering project ever’ that aims to beat ChatGPT

Google has revealed “Gemini”, which it says is its largest science and engineering project ever.

It is also the company’s latest attempt to catch up with rival OpenAI to develop artificial intelligence, and try and build a better system than its ChatGPT.

As such, Gemini will come to Google’s Bard, the chatbot that it released in the wake of ChatGPT in an attempt to catch up. But it will also roll out to Google’s Pixels phones and elsewhere.

Dec 7
2023

IBM’s New Computer Chip is Pushing the LIMITS! 🔥

In this video I discuss New IBM’s Analog chip for Artificial Intelligence with IBM Staff Researcher Manuel Le Gallo-Bourdeau: https://research.ibm.com/people…

Dec 7
2023

Why an AI expert finds Westworld scary

Kai-Fu Lee is China’s most famous venture capitalist, the former CEO of Google China, and one of the leading voices on the possibilities of AI. He says that…

Dec 7
2023

Brace for Impact, Here Comes Personalized AI

Run natively on edge devices, personalized AI assistants will get wild, and weird, soon.

Dec 7
2023

Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4

Google has been an ‘AI-first company’ for nearly a decade.

Google let OpenAI take the lead in the AI race — now, it’s mounting a comeback.

Dec 7
2023

Google’s Bard chatbot is getting way better thanks to Gemini

Google’s chatbot is the best place to try out its new supposedly state-of-the-art model — can it catch up to ChatGPT?

While OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become a worldwide phenomenon and one of the fastest-growing consumer products ever, Google’s Bard has been something of an afterthought.

Is this the moment Bard finally catches up to ChatGPT?

Dec 7
2023

McDonald’s will use Google AI to make sure your fries are fresh, or something?

The fast food company says it will be applying generative AI to its operations starting in 2024.

McDonald’s is partnering with Google to deploy generative AI beginning in 2024, when “thousands” of stores will get hardware and software upgrades.

AI is on its way to a drive-through near you.

Dec 7
2023

Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework

Apple’s machine learning research team quietly releases a framework called MLX to build foundation models.

Apple released MLX, a framework to build AI models.

Dec 7
2023

How AI assistants are already changing the way code gets made

AI coding assistants are here to stay—but just how big a difference they make is still unclear.

Two weeks into the coding class he was teaching at Duke University in North Carolina this spring, Noah Gift told his students to throw out the course materials he’d given them.