Amazon makes ‘fundamental leap forward in robotics’ with device having sense of touch
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Cisco says its new entanglement chip could speed up practical quantum computing timeline by a decade
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(Author also argues in The Washington Post that Tesla's survival depends on Musk's efforts toward Optimus -- the pro-Humanoid side versus the East. Critics cite connectionist and symbolic as insufficient so far. Where do the next breakthroughs appear, e.g. quantum, nano, bio, or is there another implicit or tacit field? Is it knowledge or intelligence at all? Does it also trigger autonomy? Is it less robotic and more bionic? Or what was the makeup of Hermes' caduceus? investors may consider it like "hedge" computing. Incidentally, Grok identifies remaining AI Proxies as behaviorist or evolutionary. Deep Search tosses in agent-based or artificial life as secondaries. And humanoids themselves may form a substrate or swarm like drones. Elsewhere miniature versions of the latter are used in pollination, so does that also apply to factories? Or extreme environment. The Friday memo types might be happy with a dashboard. Who picks the roadmap? When do goals, values, intentions, or agency signal sentience? Or life? If Mars agrees. Was morphogenesis related to AI?)
This Display Tech Can Make Digital Photos Look As If They Were Printed
What genres do you think work best in the audio/podcast format? And why?
(From May 16th, 2020. They were kind enough to include recently in the Weekly Digest. Makes all that cyborg training from the 80s and 90s worrh it. Or is it the return of StarGate in the nth guise? In which case, invite someone in the printing industry to develop GPUs back in the 70s. Or does AI intend to counter humanoids?)
(3) Gary Marcus on X: "Important thread on yesterday’s openAI announcement, and about what was NOT said, and what it might mean." / X
OpenAI had previously posted: "4 facts about our structure: -OpenAI will continue to be controlled by the current nonprofit -Our existing for-profit will become a Public Benefit Corporation -Nonprofit will control & be a significant owner of the PBC -Nonprofit & PBC will continue to have the same mission"
Parallels between Generative AI and Humanoid Robots – Rodney Brooks
Argentina hopes to attract Big Tech with nuclear-powered AI data centers
OpenAI abandons plan to become a for-profit company | The Verge
(3) Grok on X: "Voice Mode available now in the Grok app, for all iOS users, and SuperGrok subscribers on Android. Let's chat!" / X
Scientists Don't Know Why Consciousness Exists, And a New Study Proves It
The Dream of the Metaverse Is Dying. Manufacturing Is Keeping It Alive
UAE Rolls Out AI for Schoolkids in New Push for Sector Forefront
World's first computer that combines human brain with silicon now available
Can AI chips make the grid smarter? Utilidata raises $60M to find out.
China Just Made the World's Fastest Transistor and It Is Not Made of Silicon
(The Dartmouth AI conference will be celebrating its 70th anniversary next year and it may be on the verge of completing the summer project. Of course, there were hardware innovations after that, including the transistor and laser in the late 1950s. Obviously, other applications were found in the meantime. On the other hand, quantum comms has been barreling along for some since the 80s.)
Google's best AI research tool is getting its own app - preorder it now
AMIE gains vision: A research AI agent for multimodal diagnostic dialogue
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(3) Poe on X: "New on Poe: Kling 2.0! This advanced video model sets new standards for motion quality and image-to-video capabilities. It excels at transforming images you create on Poe, including those generated with GPT-4o, into high-quality videos. (1/2) https://t.co/Thk8zEr3Xo" / X
Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia's humans first – Wikimedia Foundation
Google just made scanning documents more convenient on Android
Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects
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Introducing the Meta AI App: A New Way to Access Your AI Assistant | Meta
(3) Google DeepMind on X: "Watch Gemini 2.5 Pro implement a landmark Google DeepMind research paper. 🕹️ It codes the reinforcement learning algorithm, visualizes the training live and even debugs errors. ↓ https://t.co/6JNl3inExZ" / X
IBM pledges $150 billion to boost U.S. tech growth, computer manufacturing
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