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MIT Scientists Taught Robots How To Sabotage Each Other
Understanding social robots could help psychology, the military, and more. Can a robot tell if it’s being sabotaged? That might not be the kind of question you consider, but it’s inquiries like this one that motivated some unusual studies out of MIT.
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Streaming: the best films about artificial intelligence and robots
Hanks is seemingly the last surviving human on the planet; an inventor, he assembles an AI robot (voiced by Caleb Landry Jones) to mind his adorable dog when he’s gone. Artificial Intelligence (Apple TV), which gave us androids as yearning Pinocchio figures, did some image clean-up for the...
Landing AI brings in $57M for its machine learning operations tools
Just over a year after launching its flagship product, Landing AI secured a $57 million round of Series A funding to continue building tools that enable manufacturers to more easily and quickly build and deploy artificial intelligence systems. The company, started by former Google and Baidu AI guru...
The Future Direction And Vision For AI
During the rest of this decade AI will extend its reach into the rest of the economy (“real-world sectors of our economy”) with AI scaling across healthcare, financial services, transportation, education, energy, telecoms, agriculture and continue its advance into cybersecurity. As we seek to extend...
Applied use cases
Smarter Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Post Covid-19
Source for image above: BringPortal Apple Glasses – Sleek as Hell Smart Glasses by Apple The need for efficient training and ongoing learning for real-time on the fly interactions by autonomous systems or responses by devices to customers means that the types of research in AI that is dealt with in...
GTC 2021: Nvidia debuts accelerated computing libraries, partners with Google, IBM, and others to speed up quantum research
cuQuantum – Designed for quantum computing, it enables large quantum circuits to be simulated faster. CUDA-X accelerated DGL container – Helps developers and data scientists working on graph neural networks to quickly set up a working environment. Accelerating quantum research Nvidia has established...
AI-driven search engine You.com takes on Google with $20M
You.com, which bills itself as the world’s first open search engine, today announced its public beta launch along with $20 million in funding led by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff with participation from Breyer Capital, Sound Ventures, Day One Ventures, and others. [A] single gatekeeper controls the...
Ethics
Why We Forgive Humans More Readily Than Machines
So, we decided to build a statistical model explaining how people judged humans and machines. This explains why machines are judged more harshly in accidental scenarios; people take a consequentialist approach to judging machines, wherein intent is irrelevant, but not to humans. For instance,...
Robot Evolution: Ethical Concerns
Rapid developments in evolutionary computation, robotics, 3D-printing, and material science are enabling advanced systems of robots that can autonomously reproduce and evolve.
Timnit Gebru Says Artificial Intelligence Needs to Slow Down
Timnit Gebru Says Artificial Intelligence Needs to Slow Down The AI researcher, who left Google last year, says the incentives around AI research are all wrong. Facebook Twitter Email Save Story Save this story for later. WIRED Staff; Cody O’Loughlin/The New York Times/Redux The AI Database →...
Robotics
World Robotics 2021 – Service robots report released
This is according to World Robotics 2021 – Service Robots report, presented by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). “Service robots continued on a successful path proving the tremendous market potential worldwide,” says IFR President Milton Guerry. Unit sales of professional floor...
GITAI’s Autonomous Robot Arm Finds Success on ISS
In this technology demonstration, the GITAI S1 autonomous space robot was installed inside the ISS Nanoracks Bishop Airlock and succeeded in executing two tasks: assembling structures and panels for In-Space Assembly (ISA), and operating switches & cables for Intra-Vehicular Activity (IVA). We spoke...
Tagalong robots follow you to learn where you go
Table grape growers are using Burros to ferry fruit from laborers in vineyards to people packing the goods in clamshells before loading them onto trucks for transport to grocery stores. The worker issue is particularly acute on fruit and tree nut farms, where the Agriculture Department estimates...
Research
Unsupervised deep learning identifies semantic disentanglement in single inferotemporal face patch neurons
In particular, we wanted to compare the responses of single cortical neurons in the face patches at the end of the visual processing hierarchy, recorded by our collaborators to a recently emerged class of so called “disentangling” deep neural networks that, unlike the usual “black box” systems,...
google-research / ibc Public
Implicit Behavioral Cloning This codebase contains the official implementation of the Implicit Behavioral Cloning (IBC) algorithm from our paper: Implicit Behavioral Cloning (website link) (arXiv link) Pete Florence, Corey Lynch, Andy Zeng, Oscar Ramirez, Ayzaan Wahid, Laura Downs, Adrian Wong,...
Unsupervised Learning of Compositional Energy Concepts
In this work, we propose COMET, which discovers and represents concepts as separate energy functions, enabling us to represent both global concepts as well as objects under a unified framework. One underlying weakness is that they are often tailored to the particular type of concept under...
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