Incredible generalist robots show us a future free of chores

Emerging startup Physical Intelligence has no interest in building robots. Instead, the team has something better in mind: powering the hardware with the continuously learning generalist ‘brains’ of AI software, so existing machines will be able to aut… Continue reading Incredible generalist robots show us a future free of chores

Elon Musk: Mars by 2026, humanity’s output eclipsed by AI in 2028

In a conversation with XPRIZE Founder Peter Diamandis, Musk laid out what he sees coming from the rising force of AI, while laying out a timeframe for SpaceX’s first unmanned and manned Mars missions, and lots more.Continue ReadingCategory: AI & Hu… Continue reading Elon Musk: Mars by 2026, humanity’s output eclipsed by AI in 2028

Dawn of the Agent: New Claude AI can take over your computer

The next wave of game-changing AI models will soon be upon us – “agent” style models that’ll be able to take over entire ongoing tasks and jobs with full autonomy. Anthropic’s newest AI model gives us a sneak peek, by taking over your whole computer.Co… Continue reading Dawn of the Agent: New Claude AI can take over your computer

Boston Dynamics and Toyota team up: Teaching Atlas how to learn

The Toyota Research Institute has been doing some incredible work teaching robots to rapidly learn and perform tasks autonomously – now, it’s bringing its Large Behavior Model tech to the extraordinary Atlas humanoid in partnership with Boston Dynamics… Continue reading Boston Dynamics and Toyota team up: Teaching Atlas how to learn

Facial recognition data breach: Meta glasses extract info in real time

In what might be described as a real-life Black Mirror episode, a Harvard student uses facial recognition with $379 Meta Ray-Ban 2 smart sunglasses – to dig up personal data on every face he sees in real time.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: L… Continue reading Facial recognition data breach: Meta glasses extract info in real time

Bigger, stronger, smarter GR-2 humanoid launches with major hand upgrades

One 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.Contin… Continue reading Bigger, stronger, smarter GR-2 humanoid launches with major hand upgrades

AI begins its ominous split away from human thinking

AIs 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.Conti… Continue reading AI begins its ominous split away from human thinking

The Thinker: ChatGPT gets a serious brain upgrade

OpenAI’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.Continue Readin… Continue reading The Thinker: ChatGPT gets a serious brain upgrade

AIs generate more novel and exciting research ideas than human experts

The 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.Conti… Continue reading AIs generate more novel and exciting research ideas than human experts

AIs generate more novel and exciting research ideas than human experts

The 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.Conti… Continue reading AIs generate more novel and exciting research ideas than human experts