Moravec‘s Paradox

Last week, we highlighted for you that Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen might be a robot. In a brilliant piece by our own James Dator, we outlined how over the course of two different race simulations, the F1 driver barely blinked. Well, as they say the apple might not…

ChatGPT creator OpenAI says is freshly released tool for detecting when artificial intelligence authored text rather than a human remains a work in progress and should not be completely relied upon to make the call - Copyright AFP AHMAD AL-RUBAYE Julie JAMMOT The rise of artificial general intelligence — now…

TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In a nutshell: Earlier this week, the FCC released its first ruling to address robospam and unlawful text messaging practices. The new directive requires mobile providers to block potentially illegal messages from invalid, unallocated, unused,…

The Metaverse may facilitate even more physical events and activities to take place online, thus cutting down on carbon emissions resulting from travel.But it’s also known that AI language processing models this relies on will push Metaverse carbon emissions through the roof, since they require large amounts of electricity.A community-driven…

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Robotics Summit & Expo: 10–11 May 2023, BOSTONICRA 2023: 29…

Today, Coveo, a Montreal-based company that offers an artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to make digital experiences “enjoyable, personalized, relevant and profitable”, announced the Coveo Relevance Generative Answering capability. This is a new generative AI response generation feature that leverages the unified and secure indexing, search, and relevance capabilities of…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the insurance industry, opening up new avenues for increasing efficiency, lowering costs, and providing better customer service. However, the use of AI raises significant ethical concerns, particularly in terms of fairness and transparency. In this article, we will look at the ethical issues surrounding…

Tech research company OpenAI has just released an updated version of its text-generating artificial intelligence program, called GPT-4, and demonstrated some of the language model’s new abilities. Not only can GPT-4 produce more natural-sounding text and solve problems more accurately than its predecessor. It can also process images in addition…

Meta, the social media company, will continue to shed part of its workforce, recently announcing 10,000 new layoffs to be executed during 2023 as part of its new efficiency policy. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the company, stated that artificial intelligence (AI) was currently the company’s most prominent investment, even over…

During a livestream on March 15, Zhou Hongyi, the founder of Qihoo 360, a Chinese internet security company, disclosed the company’s artificial intelligence development plan amidst the ChatGPT hype. The Beijing-based company intends to build a generative large language model and release related products and services at the earliest opportunity.…