Amazon Wants Its Home Robot, Astro, to Anticipate Your Every Need
[ad_1] The same approach to teaching Astro with gestures and words could in the future be extended to all kinds of furniture and objects in a home, Washington says. The…
Google Borrows From TikTok to Keep Gen Z Searching
[ad_1] In July, the Google executive who oversees the company’s lucrative and dominant search engine made a surprising admission. Younger users were diverting questions that would once have naturally flowed…
I Love Twitter Bots and I Cannot Lie
[ad_1] “I love bots” feels like a controversial statement now, given the rise of troll farms deploying them and the proliferation of egg accounts spreading bad information or engaging in…
This Chatbot Aims to Steer People Away From Child Abuse Material
[ad_1] Using the chatbot is more direct and maybe more engaging, says Donald Findlater, the director of the Stop It Now help line run by the Lucy Faithfull Foundation. After…
The Joy and Dread of AI Image Generators Without Limits
[ad_1] Image generators like Stable Diffusion can create what look like real photographs or hand-crafted illustrations depicting just about anything a person can imagine. This is possible thanks to algorithms…
Satellite Data Shows How Russia Has Destroyed Ukrainian Grain
[ad_1] Almost 10 million metric tons of Ukrainian grain has been affected by the Russian invasion, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery. One in six of Ukraine’s grain…
Why DeepMind Is Sending AI Humanoids to Soccer Camp
[ad_1] “This didn’t really work,” says Nicolas Heess, also a research scientist at DeepMind, and one of the paper’s coauthors with Lever. Because of the complexity of the problem, the…
Trans Researchers Want Google Scholar to Stop Deadnaming Them
[ad_1] Picking her new name led Tess Tanenbaum to ponder many questions. Am I Josie or a Hanna? Should it sound similar to her previous masculine name? What will it…
Babylon Disrupted the UK’s Health System. Then It Left
[ad_1] Rideout says about 7,000 patients had signed up to the RWT service. “It’s just not generating sufficient funds for us to be able to justify the expenditure or system…
Algorithms Can Now Mimic Any Artist. Some Artists Hate It
[ad_1] Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag is known for haunting paintings that blend natural landscapes with the eerie futurism of giant robots, mysterious industrial machines, and alien creatures. Earlier this week,…
How to Stop Robots From Becoming Racist
[ad_1] In 2017, Holliday contributed to a RAND report warning that resolving bias in machine learning requires hiring diverse teams and cannot be fixed through technical means alone. In 2020,…
Google’s New Robot Learned to Take Orders by Scraping the Web
[ad_1] Late last week, Google research scientist Fei Xia sat in the center of a bright, open-plan kitchen and typed a command into a laptop connected to a one-armed, wheeled…
To Fix Tech, Democracy Needs to Grow Up
[ad_1] There isn’t much we can agree on these days. But two sweeping statements that might garner broad support are “We need to fix technology” and “We need to fix…
Smiling Dogs? Captcha Has Gone Too Far
[ad_1] However, after several decades, it appears as if captcha’s dominance over the internet could be waning. Apple has decided to give the technology the boot, and its impact on…
In Humanity’s Collective Unconscious, the Body Is a Bad Dream
[ad_1] The first images that I tried to generate from Dall-E Mini were of cartoon characters getting colonoscopies. The website, now called Craiyon, houses an artificial intelligence model that turns…
How GPT-3 Wrote a Movie About a Cockroach-AI Love Story
[ad_1] With the film, I like how you sit there and you’re like, oh, what am I watching? Why is the power stone described as looking like a burrito? I…
Amazon’s iRobot Deal Would Give It Maps Inside Millions of Homes
[ad_1] After decades of creating war machines and home cleaning appliances, iRobot agreed to be acquired by Amazon for $1.7 billion, according to a joint statement by the two companies.…
We Interviewed Meta’s New AI Chatbot About … Itself
[ad_1] Kuki can talk about everything from music to sports to politics and religion! And beyond that as well Would you like me to call you Kuki? Yes! Call me…
Who Will Own the Art of the Future?
[ad_1] When OpenAI announced last week that its art-making AI system DALL-E is now available in beta, the company also gave users lucky enough to get off the waiting list…
AI Art Is Challenging the Boundaries of Curation
[ad_1] In just a few years, the number of artworks produced by self-described AI artists has dramatically increased. Some of these works have been sold by large auction houses for…