#437386 Scary A.I. more intelligent than you

GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3), is an artificial intelligence language generator that uses deep learning to produce human-like output. The high quality of its text is very difficult to distinguish from a human’s. Many scientists, researchers and engineers (including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk) have warned of A.I.’s potential dangers and called for steps to mitigate risk. And deep-learning critic Gary Marcus, has said that GPT-3’s “comprehension of the world is often seriously off, which means you can never […] Continue Reading…

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#439161 Video Friday: Ingenuity on Mars

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!):
ICRA 2021 – May 30-5, 2021 – [Online Event]
RoboCup 2021 – June 22-28, 2021 – [Online Event]
DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USA
WeRobot 2021 – September 23-25, 2021 – Coral Gables, […] Continue Reading…

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#439157 This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From ...

COMPUTING
Now for AI’s Latest Trick: Writing Computer CodeWill Knight | Wired“It can take years to learn how to write computer code well. SourceAI, a Paris startup, thinks programming shouldn’t be such a big deal. The company is fine-tuning a tool that uses artificial intelligence to write code based on a short text description of what the code should do. Tell the company’s tool to ‘multiply two numbers given by a user,’ for example, and it will whip up a […] Continue Reading…

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#438754 TALOS Humanoid Robot in Scotland

Video of TALOS arriving at the University of Edinburgh, being unpacked, and activated.

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#439155 ANYbotics reveals full-scale robotic ...

The Swiss robotics company ANYbotics has announced the launch of a new end-to-end robotic inspection system for the energy and industrial processing arenas. This solution aims to answer the call for better safety at production sites and lower downtime.[Read more…]

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