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AI-Guided Robots Are Ready to Sort Your Recyclables
AI engineers normally don’t know much about industry sectors and industry-sector experts don’t know much about AI. But PaddlePaddle’s easy-to-understand code comes with a wealth of learning materials and tools to help users. It scales easily and has a comprehensive set of APIs to address various needs.
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This Robot Dog Has an AI Brain and Taught Itself to Walk in Just an Hour
Pure reinforcement learning algorithms need too much trial and error to learn skills for them to train in the real world. By filtering out less successful actions in advance, the world model allows the robot to more efficiently figure out what works. “Learning world models from past experience...
At SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Illuminates Three Forces Sparking Graphics Revolution
In addition, NVIDIA announced a set of simulation-ready USD assets, designed for use in industrial digital twins and AI training workflows. Huang called Omniverse “a USD platform, a toolkit for building metaverse applications, and a compute engine to run virtual worlds.” The latest version packs...
Applied use cases
Tesla self-driving smear campaign releases ‘test’ that fails to realize FSD never engaged
A Tesla Full Self-Driving smear campaign started by a California billionaire running for Senate has a new attack ad based on a FSD Beta “test,” where they failed to realize they never engaged FSD Beta during the test. Under the protection of political ads, he invested several million dollars in an...
Appen: 93% say ‘responsible AI’ is the foundation of all projects
Appen’s latest annual State of AI and Machine Learning report has some interesting findings about the pursuit of safe and ethical solutions. “This year’s State of AI report finds that 93 percent of respondents believe responsible AI is the foundation of all AI projects,” said Mark Brayan, CEO at...
Musk wants public debate with Twitter CEO instead of that upcoming court trial
Specifically, Twitter reports in Securities and Exchange Commission filings that fewer than 5 percent of its monetizable daily active users (mDAU) are spam or fake. Twitter answered spam claims in court filing Musk's legal team wrote in a court filing that after he agreed to buy the company, "Musk...
Ethics
Meta’s new AI chatbot can’t stop bashing Facebook
Launched on Friday, BlenderBot is a prototype of Meta’s conversational AI, which, according to Facebook’s parent company, can converse on nearly any topic. This means that along with uncomfortable truths about its parent company, BlenderBot has been spouting predictable falsehoods.
How AI image generators like Craiyon see our world: It’s not all funhouse mirrors and elves in bikinis
During one recent visit by Grid, users’ prompts ranged from “clown with black eyes 8k ultra realistic bad weather in new york” to “volcano shooting out pies.” The output ranges from the cheerfully surreal to the downright sinister, as Grid staff found out when we fed a few of our headlines into...
Paths Untaken
The question of restraint around AI development In a famous 2000 essay, entitled ‘Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us’, computer scientist Bill Joy grimly reflected on the potential range of new technological threats that could await us in the 21st century, expressing early concerns over the potentially...
Robotics
What’s New in Robotics? 05.08.2022
News briefs for the week take a look at deep-diving aquatic humanoid robots that offer a sense of touch, both multi-vehicle and single-vehicle retrofit systems for industrial autonomy, breakthrough robotics for small intestine endoscopy, and an inspection robot for aging and ailing dam...
Can't believe it's August already! Robots just keep getting funding.
Uber surprised a lot of us and turned cash flow positive in the second quarter. Amazon took 14 years before its first profitable (and cashflow positive) year. Hot act, cool jobs The climate impact of the weirdly named Inflation Reduction Act will be significant. This level of job creation might be a...
Digging Into the New QD-OLED TVs
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. The mission to return martian samples back to Earth will see a European 2.5 metre-long robotic arm pick up tubes filled with precious...
Research
New-and-Improved Content Moderation Tooling
To help developers protect their applications against possible misuse, we are introducing the faster and more accurate Moderation endpoint. This endpoint provides OpenAI API developers with free access to GPT-based classifiers that detect undesired content — an instance of using AI systems to assist...
Foundation Models: A Primer for Investors and Builders
They are already used in large-scale applications in various areas including search, natural language processing, and software development. In Figure 5 below, we list over 60 companies that have raised over $3.8 billion to date and have been publicly described as using or building foundation models,...
Research Engineer
Your responsibilities may include: Building and evaluating deep learning models Collecting annotated data using crowdsourcing Writing and submitting research papers to top tier AI conferences Developing computer vision and reinforcement learning packages to assist our research efforts internally as...
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Built on Reliable, Fast, and Accurate Transcription
To power their cutting-edge audio and video editing solution, Descript needed a fast, accurate, reliable ASR partner. See how Rev AI provides the lightning-fast turnaround times and unparalleled accuracy at the core of Descript’s technology.