The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with her once more?
Joshua Barbeau, a 33-year-old freelance writer living in Bradford, Canada provided old message exchanges from his wife, plus some necessary background information, a website called Project December, where you can talk to chatbots with state-of-the-art AI systems, to create a new bot, named “Jessica Courtney Pereira.” Read More
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OpenAI disbands its robotics research team
OpenAI has disbanded its robotics team after years of research into machines that can learn to perform tasks like solving a Rubik’s Cube. Company cofounder Wojciech Zaremba quietly revealed on a podcast hosted by startup Weights & Biases that OpenAI has shifted its focus to other domains, where data is more readily available.
“So it turns out that we can make a gigantic progress whenever we have access to data. And I kept all of our machinery unsupervised, [using] reinforcement learning — [it] work[s] extremely well. There [are] actually plenty of domains that are very, very rich with data. And ultimately that was holding us back in terms of robotics,” Zaremba said. “The decision [to disband the robotics team] was quite hard for me. But I got the realization some time ago that actually, that’s for the best from the perspective of the company.” Read More
What could make AI conscious? with Wojciech Zaremba, co-founder of OpenAI
Singularity Street
Introducing Singularity Street. Follow the exploits of Robota Xi as he navigates the world of the future. Read More
AI ethicist Kate Darling: ‘Robots can be our partners’
The MIT researcher says that for humans to flourish we must move beyond thinking of robots as potential future competitors.
Dr Kate Darling is a research specialist in human-robot interaction, robot ethics and intellectual property theory and policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. In her new book, The New Breed, she argues that we would be better prepared for the future if we started thinking about robots and artificial intelligence (AI) like animals. Read More
The self-driving race between Elon Musk’s Tesla and Domino’s pizza robots
- Tesla and Elon Musk are pressing ahead with full self-driving even amid blown deadlines, safety issues, and multi-billion-dollar efforts from Alphabet-backed Waymo and GM-backed Cruise continue.
- But some autonomous vehicle start-ups are making big bets the future will be smaller, ‘zero-occupant’ vehicles including three-wheelers that deliver pizza.
- Refraction AI and Nuro are among the delivery technology innovators working with local restaurants in Texas and corporations including Domino’s Pizza.
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Amazon Fresh grocery store: Meet Just Walk Out shopping
For the first time, Just Walk Out technology is available in a new full-size Amazon Fresh grocery store.
Now customers can save time shopping for groceries by skipping the checkout line with the launch of our new Amazon Fresh grocery store with Just Walk Out shopping, now open in The Marketplace at Factoria in Bellevue, Washington.
Using a combination of overhead cameras equipped with computer vision to identify items customers put in their cart, weight-detecting sensors to log whenever they move items from or back to store shelves, and back-end systems to track the data and manage inventory, Amazon is proving out the scalability of the Amazon Fresh concept. Read More
First virtual student ‘enrolls’ at Tsinghua University
China’s Tsinghua University developed an “AI robot” virtual student that will start studying in the university’s computer laboratory. Introduced on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, the robot, Hua Zhibing, is based on the Wudao 2.0 deep learning model and has already attracted a following of over 2,000 followers. Read More
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