AI & Humanoids
Artificial Intelligence may prove to be a more significant milestone than the harnessing of fire, or the invention of the wheel. It's the fastest-evolving technology the world has ever seen, with the potential to completely upend white-collar jobs through language models and software agents – as well as blue-collar jobs through a rising generation of intelligent humanoid robots. It's the first invention that threatens to be superior to humans in nearly every conceivable way, perhaps sooner than we thought.
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"I've never seen any technology advance faster than this." The chip shortage may be behind us, but AI and EVs are expanding at such a rapacious rate that the world will face supply crunches in electricity and transformers next year, says Elon Musk. -
A 20-second video from inside a Chinese humanoid robot factory is causing some consternation today around social media. It shows a range of highly realistic-looking, partially skinned humanoids under construction. -
You've seen a ton of videos of humanoid robots – but this one feels different. It's Sanctuary's Phoenix bot, with "the world's best robot hands," working totally autonomously at near-human speeds – much faster than Tesla's or Figure's robots.
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September 30, 2024One of the more interesting and unique robots in the emerging humanoid space has received an unexpected upgrade. Shanghai's Fourier Intelligence has just launched the GR-2 – taller, heavier, smarter, more dextrous and much stronger than the GR-1. -
September 29, 2024AIs have a big problem with truth and correctness – and human thinking appears to be a big part of that problem. A new generation of AI is now starting to take a much more experimental approach that could catapult machine learning way past humans. -
September 13, 2024OpenAI's latest game-changing AI release has dropped. The new o1 model, now available in ChatGPT, now 'thinks' before it responds – and it's starting to crush both previous models and Ph.D-holding humans at solving expert-level problems. -
September 11, 2024The first statistically significant results are in: not only can Large Language Model (LLM) AIs generate new expert-level scientific research ideas, but their ideas are more original and exciting than the best of ours – as judged by human experts. -
September 08, 2024So a diffusion model, denoising data, peak signal-to-noise-ratio, RL-agent, autoregressive model, and thermodynamics walk into a bar ... And now we can play the 1993 cult-classic first-person shooter, DOOM, generated in real-time by AI. -
September 03, 2024Back in February, Norway's 1X showed off the progress it had made with its pick-and-place workplace humanoid, Eve. Now the OpenAI-backed company has released video footage of its latest prototype, a bipedal butlerbot named Neo Beta. -
September 02, 2024In another instance of AI making itself genuinely useful, researchers at the University of Toronto have identified a better catalyst for the production of green hydrogen using AI – saving themselves years in experimentation. -
August 28, 2024Imagine that you're injured on a remote mountain path but have managed to contact emergency rescue. The first to arrive on the scene could be a small humanoid robot wearing a jetpack if Italian research bears fruit. -
August 22, 2024A few short months after Chinese startup Astribot released jaw-dropping video footage of its humanoid helper, the company has now unveiled a launch video for the S1 – which shows the bot making waffles, feeding the cat, serving tea and shooting hoops. -
August 19, 2024Unitree Robotics is a relatively recent entry in the general-purpose humanoid space, but its $16,000 G1 model is already proving itself to be quite the performer. So much so that the company has now revealed a version that's ready for mass production. -
August 17, 2024AI may not be the dire existential threat that many make it out to be. According to a new study, Large Language Models (LLMs) can only follow instructions, can't develop new skills on their own and are inherently "controllable, predictable and safe." -
August 13, 2024Updating an ancient form of health diagnosis with modern machine learning, researchers have developed a remarkable system that can reveal a range of medical conditions including asthma and diabetes just by looking at your tongue. It aced its tests. -
August 12, 2024Using heaps of data, Google DeepMind trained a table-tennis-playing robot to take on human competitors and get better as it did so. The results were impressive and represent a leap forward in robotic speed and dexterity. It also looks really fun. -
August 06, 2024ChatGPT is mediocre at diagnosing medical conditions, getting it right 49% of the time, according to a new study, highlighting that AI shouldn’t be the sole source of medical information and the importance of maintaining the human element in healthcare. -
August 06, 2024California-based robotics outfit Figure has today announced its second-generation humanoid robot, which is initially being aimed at production lines in commercial settings, but the company is promising a bipedal butler in our homes in the near future.
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