Robots & AI

Alphabet-backed Waymo is leading the robotaxi revolution, but Tesla’s new Cybercab could change everything.

AI chatbots may have certain advantages when roleplaying as our friends. They may also come with downsides that make our loneliness worse.

Flexport is using generative AI to read documents, talk to truckers, and create a “knowledge agent” that’s an expert in shipping.

GPT-3, the OpenAI tech behind the hugely popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT, is now being used to automate radio DJing.

Low-cost robots that perfectly mimic parts of the human body foreshadow a future in which humanoid robots do all the work people don't want.

Louise Pryke

Generative AI uses a type of learning called generative adversarial networks and has many uses, including creating images, text, and audio.

Nick Routley

In a bid to shake up the industry, two Israeli companies will soon deploy robot window cleaners to cities around the world.

A computer’s power is still limited by the number of operations it can execute per second and the efficiency of the algorithms it runs.

Jie Wang

Microsoft has integrated an AI language tool into its Bing search engine that it claims is more powerful than ChatGPT.

Huileng Tan

By combining combine genetic and electrical engineering, scientists have developed a new technique for wiring electronics into living matter.

When asked about physics, ChatGPT gave a mixture of true, false, relevant, irrelevant, and contradictory answers — all with authority.

Tom Hartsfield

AutoML-Zero is a simple proof-of-concept that shows how t might someday be scaled up and applied to more complex problems.

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