AI & Robotics News and Discussions

[Powers]

AI mirrors human biases: Study reveals 'us vs. them' tendencies in large language models

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-ai- ... veals.html

It is part of our nature as a species and seems to be common in most predators(apes, etc).

Agree except in predators species only.

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[firestar464]

Sam Altman Says No GPT-5 This Year in Reddit AMA

https://www.aiwire.net/2024/10/31/sam-a ... eddit-ama/

Perhaps they're going to either move 4.5 to December and release 5 in IDK, March or something, or they're going to release o1 in December and scrap 4.5 IMO.

Looks more like the latter it seems. This better be impressive; they're going to have to compete with Anthropic's release (imagine if the two got into a Mexican standoff only for xAI to drop first)

o1 dropped along with o1 pro. Anthropic response in 3...2...1...

Welp, looks like neither company was able to compete with OAI. xAI seems to have opted for Grok 2.5 instead.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/02/xais- ... o-a-trend/

[firestar464]

smolagents - a smol library to build great agents

https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents

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Vacuum cleaner's robotic arm picks up your dirty socks and tissues
By Abhimanyu Ghoshal
January 06, 2025
https://newatlas.com/around-the-home/va ... saros-z70/

CES 2025 is finally upon us, which means we'll see a bunch of cool new gadgets from the year's biggest consumer tech show. Roborock is kicking things off with a robot vacuum cleaner that brings even more robotics to the party: its foldable arm can extend out from the top of the machine and automatically pick items up off the floor.

The Saros Z70 will be able to grab discarded tissues, dirty socks, and other items you train it to pick up – provided they're under 0.66 lb (300 g) each. The device can then drop items off at a designated point, like a basket.

Roborock says this is the first-ever mass-produced foldable five-axis robotic arm around. The Z70 will first make a trip around your home to identify objects it can lift, using a camera and LED light in the arm. Next, it'll return to pick up those objects, move them to a previously cleaned area, and clean the obstructed spots. Finally, it'll go put those items away in a designated place.

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Samsung's Adorable Rolling Robot Should Be Available This Year
Announced in 2020, Ballie can control smart home devices, project images onto walls, and follow you around the house.
By Adrianna Nine January 7, 2025

It's been half a decade since Samsung first introduced Ballie, a rolling—and admittedly adorable—household robot. Now the tiny companion is officially slated for release. At its CES 2025 press conference, Samsung announced that Ballie would become available in the first half of the year.

Aesthetically, Ballie has come a long way since its CES 2020 debut. Back then, the robot was "about the size of a hefty grapefruit but much less dense," according to Engadget, and its bright yellow exterior featured a scalloped texture that has since been left behind. (The former Engadget editor who experienced early Ballie firsthand says Samsung originally considered a fabric exterior, which ultimately wouldn't have held up to dirt and grime.) Today, Ballie is roughly the size of a bowling ball—though hopefully a lot lighter—with a smooth exterior and a wider "face," which houses its projector, LIDAR, and other environmental sensors.

https://www.extremetech.com/electronics ... -this-year

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Teslabot Ramps to 1 Million by 2027
January 9, 2025 by Brian Wang
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2025/01/t ... -2027.html

Elon Musk made huge announcements that Teslabot will start ramping mass production this year and reach 500,000 to 1 million in 2027.

The targets are 5,000 bots in 2025 with Q4 2025 being the start of a factory and 50,000 to 100,000 in 2026 and 500,000 to 1 million in 2027.

This would be huge as 5,000 bots on each shift would match the number of human workers on a shift in a Tesla factory.

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[Yuli Ban]

The necessity for a nonanonymous Internet 2.0 is obvious, and to those who oppose it but support further AI advancement— well, tough luck. This is the path we've charted.

[firestar464]

This is why you don't trust randos for info

[Tadasuke]

Here's a CNET video of a new minor exoskeleton thingy for legs from a company called Arcteryx:



It can help people who have a bit of a hard time walking.

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[firestar464]

god semantics debates are SO ANNOYING

[Vakanai]

The necessity for a nonanonymous Internet 2.0 is obvious, and to those who oppose it but support further AI advancement— well, tough luck. This is the path we've charted.

Why would anonymity have to be given up? I feel this is something more people would be against as most people, myself included, are already worried about our right to privacy being eroded as is. There has to be other means to address the problems these AI grifter-bots pose.

[firestar464]

Increased AI use linked to eroding critical thinking skills

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-ai-linked ... kills.html

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Scientific American- Health Care AI Requires a Lot of Expensive Humans to Run

https://archive.ph/ojNk3

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