AI & Robotics News and Discussions

[firestar464]

China Has a Different Vision for AI. It Might Be Smarter.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-has-a ... r-581f1e44

[wjfox]

Looks like it's eating them lol.

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[firestar464]

[weatheriscool]

I wonder if his hands are made like ours with rubber covering the joints so they can still work but it isn't obvious by first appearance. It would be extremely stupid if otherwise.

[spryfusion]

[wjfox]

[firestar464]

Qwen release imminent.

[firestar464]

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[firestar464]

Qwen release imminent.

Apologies for the late update.

[firestar464]

Anthropic settles class action from US authors alleging copyright infringement

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/ ... 025-08-26/

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-55 ... pyright-ai

In one of the largest copyright settlements involving generative artificial intelligence, Anthropic AI, a leading company in the generative AI space, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by a group of authors.

If the court approves the settlement, Anthropic will compensate authors around $3,000 for each of the estimated 500,000 books covered by the settlement.

[wjfox]

The Robot Vacuum’s Next Humble Trick: Climbing Stairs

September 6, 2025

Stair-climbing robot vacuums are actually about to be a reality, sort of. That’s courtesy of a little baby trend at IFA 2025 of robot vacuums slipping into something more climbable—a little caddy that carries them upstairs when it’s time to move floors, then waits to carry them back down when they’re done. The first one we encountered was the Eufy MarsWalker.

Then, it turned out that Dreame had one, too, using almost the exact same approach, only it’s weirdly much scarier-looking. Both have a sort of Half-Life headcrab vibe, but where the MarsWalker really looks like, well, a robot meant to walk on Mars, Dreame’s version, the Cyber X, looks like it would be the nearly identical-to-the-hero villain if the two shared a 1990s Saturday morning cartoon series. Instead of the sleek stalks that the MarsWalker uses to pull itself onto stairs, the Cyber X has what can only be described as chainsaw hands—because Dreame elected to put the tank tread bits on the device’s little legs, not its body.

The two mostly work the same way; robot vacuum meets stair-climbing caddy and climbs in. They roll to the stairs and the caddy probes for the bottom step, then stretches out in front and back to roll up the stairs. There are mild differences in the execution here: while the MarsWalker doesn’t extend its little arms until it reaches the steps, the Dreame robot stands up on all fours to approach them.

https://gizmodo.com/the-robot-vacuums-n ... 2000654928



© Wes Davis / Gizmodo

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[firestar464]

404 Media- Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'

https://archive.ph/oWcIr

Jimmy def took the L here. He didn't even check the AI-generated response. It's definitely not ready to be used without heavy oversight.

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[caltrek]

Albania Appoints AI Bot ‘Minister’ to Fight Corruption in World First
September 12, 2025

Introduction:

(Al Jazeera) Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has put an artificial intelligence-generated “minister” in charge of tackling corruption in his new cabinet.

Diella, which means “sun” in Albanian, was appointed on Thursday, with the leader introducing her as a “member of the cabinet who is not present physically” who will ensure that “public tenders will be 100 percent free of corruption”.

The awarding of tenders has long been a source of corruption in the Balkan country of 2.8 million people, which aspires to join the European Union.
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Rama’s Socialist Party, which recently secured a fourth term in office, has said it can deliver EU membership for Albania in five years, with negotiations concluding by 2027.

Lawmakers will soon vote on Rama’s new cabinet, but it was unclear whether he would ask for a vote on Diella’s virtual post.

Read more here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/ ... ld-first

[firestar464]

ChatGPT Goes Completely Haywire If You Ask It to Show You a Seahorse Emoji

https://futurism.com/chatgpt-haywire-seahorse-emoji