Top news of the week: 11.02.2023.
Building Generative AI We Can Trust
2022 will be remembered as an inflection point for generative AI — AI that doesn’t just classify or predict, but creates content of its own, be it text, imagery, video, or even executable ...
A simple guide to the expansive world of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is in everything nowadays. Use this guide to understand what, exactly, AI is, and how to think about its different applications.
Solving a machine-learning mystery
MIT researchers have explained how large language models like GPT-3 are able to learn new tasks without updating their parameters, despite not being trained to perform those tasks. ...
Learning from humans to build social cognition among robots
Self-organized groups of robots have generally coordinated their behaviors using quite simple social interactions. Although simple interactions are sufficient for some group behaviors, ...
AI-Powered FRIDA robot collaborates with humans to create art
Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute has a new artist-in-residence. FRIDA, a robotic arm with a paintbrush taped to it, uses artificial intelligence to collaborate with humans on ...
What’s New in Robotics? 10.02.2023
News briefs for the week take a look at a cobot as a data-driven, AI-chemist, then way up we go for robots working wind turbines inside and out, then Singapore’s new robot street sweepers, ...
Intrinsic motivation learning for real robot applications
Humanoid robots are built to resemble the human body and mimic human motion and interaction (Hirai et al., 1998;Kajita et al., 2014;Tikhanoff et al., 2010). The recent research in this ...
The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret
Integrating large language models into search engines could mean a fivefold increase in computing power and huge carbon emissions.