AI & Robotics News and Discussions

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DeepMind develops SAFE, an AI-based app that can fact-check LLMs

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-dee ... d-app.html

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Hyundai's DAL-e delivery bot takes on the morning coffee run
By Paul Ridden
April 03, 2024
https://newatlas.com/robotics/hyundai-k ... ery-robot/

Hyundai and Kia are gunning for office mailroom jobs with the introduction of the DAL-e Delivery robot, that can not only distribute packages around a building autonomously, but can also do the coffee run too.

The new delivery bot from the Hyundai/Kia Robotics Lab is not based on the DAL-e "humanoid" launched in 2021, but a model introduced at the end of 2022 that was built on Hyundai's Plug & Drive platform featuring "intelligent steering, braking, in-wheel electric drive and suspension hardware" in one modular unit.

The DAL-e Delivery also features four Plug & Drive modules, with enhanced suspension to ensure that your cup of Joe within its belly arrives stirred but not shaken. The Lab reports that though the new bot doesn't stand as tall as its ancestor, the cargo hold has grown to accommodate up to 16 cups of coffee or packages weighing up to 10 kg (22 lb).

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Computer scientists show the way: AI models need not be so power hungry

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-sci ... ungry.html

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A framework to improve air-ground robot navigation in complex occlusion-prone environments
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-fra ... mplex.html
by Ingrid Fadelli , Tech Xplore

Robotic systems have so far been primarily deployed in warehouses, airports, malls, offices, and other indoor environments, where they assist humans with basic manual tasks or answer simple queries. In the future, however, they could also be deployed in unknown and unmapped environments, where obstacles can easily occlude their sensors, increasing the risk of collisions.

Air-ground robots could be particularly effective for navigating outdoor environments and tackling complex tasks. By moving both on the ground and in the air, these robots could help humans search for survivors after natural disasters, deliver packages to remote locations, monitor natural environments, and complete other missions in complex outdoor settings.

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I feel like OpenAI's never going to declare AGI. Daddy Microsoft won't allow it.

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Tiny AI-trained robots demonstrate remarkable soccer skills

by Bob Yirka , Tech Xplore
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-tin ... occer.html

A team of AI specialists at Google's DeepMind has used machine learning to teach tiny robots to play soccer. They describe the process for developing the robots in Science Robotics.

As machine-learning-based LLMs make their way into the public domain, computer engineers continue to look for other applications for AI tools. One purpose that has long captured the imagination of scientists and the public at large is the implementation of robots that can carry out traditionally human tasks that are difficult or arduous.

The basic design for most such robots has typically involved using a direct programming or mimicking approach. In this new effort, the research team in the U.K. has applied machine learning to the process and has created tiny robots (approximately 510 mm tall) that are remarkably good at playing soccer.

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Engineers quicken the response time for robots to react to human conversation

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-qui ... human.html

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OpenAI and Meta ready new AI models capable of ‘reasoning’ (from the Financial Times)

https://archive.is/zLwB0

If they're going to actually do this (instead of just improving performance on reasoning benchmarks), then the AI would...have to be conscious to think in the same way we do. What do you think of my assessment?

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OpenAI and Meta ready new AI models capable of ‘reasoning’ (from the Financial Times)

https://archive.is/zLwB0

If they're going to actually do this (instead of just improving performance on reasoning benchmarks), then the AI would...have to be conscious to think in the same way we do. What do you think of my assessment?

This could easily become agi and would within a short amount of time top any human on earth in its ability to think, consider and invent. It would probably in a short time if this is true and can reason and consider become the top intelligence on earth. It will likely see the gop and religious idiots as a disease.

Reasoning + the memory and knowledge of the entire internet would be something to see. The human mind even at 160 iq points probably can't contain more then 1/100,000th of the memory this will have.

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Is ChatGPT corrupting peer review? Telltale words hint at AI use

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01051-2

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Herd Mentality Inspires Swarm of Tiny Robots
April 5, 2024

Introduction:

(Futurity) Natural herd mentality has inspired a team of researchers to create “smart swarms” of microscopic robots.

In natural ecosystems, the herd mentality plays a major role—from schools of fish, to beehives, to ant colonies. This collective behavior allows the whole to exceed the sum of its parts and better respond to threats and challenges.

In their new work, the researchers engineered social interactions among tiny machines so that they can act as one coordinated group, performing tasks better than they would if they were moving as individuals or at random.

“All these groups, flocks of birds, schools of fish, and others, each member of the group has this natural inclination to work in concert with its neighbor, and together they are smarter, stronger, and more efficient than they would be on their own,” says Yuebing Zheng, associate professor in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Materials Institute. “We wanted to learn more about the mechanisms that make this happen and see if we can reproduce it.”

Zheng and his team first showcased these innovations in a paper published in Advanced Materials last year. But they’ve taken things a step further in a new paper published in Science Advances.

Read more of the Futurity article here: https://www.futurity.org/herd-mentalit ... urce=rss

For a presentation involving some technical mathematics as published in Science Advances: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk3914

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AI now beats humans at basic tasks — new benchmarks are needed, says major report

15 April 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the chatbot ChatGPT, have become so advanced that they now very nearly match or exceed human performance in tasks including reading comprehension, image classification and competition-level mathematics, according to a new report (see ‘Speedy advances’). Rapid progress in the development of these systems also means that many common benchmarks and tests for assessing them are quickly becoming obsolete.

These are just a few of the top-line findings from the Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024, which was published on 15 April by the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University in California. The report charts the meteoric progress in machine-learning systems over the past decade.

In particular, the report says, new ways of assessing AI — for example, evaluating their performance on complex tasks, such as abstraction and reasoning — are more and more necessary. “A decade ago, benchmarks would serve the community for 5–10 years” whereas now they often become irrelevant in just a few years, says Nestor Maslej, a social scientist at Stanford and editor-in-chief of the AI Index. “The pace of gain has been startlingly rapid.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01087-4

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Boston Dynamics New Fully Electric Humanoid Robot
April 17, 2024 by Brian Wang

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/04/b ... robot.html
Boston Dynamics has released a video unveiling their next generation humanoid robot. It is a fully electric Atlas robot designed for real-world applications.

Atlas demonstrates efforts to develop the next generation of robots with the mobility, perception, and intelligence needed to be commonplace in our lives.

Boston Dynamics will work with the Hyundai team to build the next generation of automotive manufacturing capabilities.

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