Moravec‘s Paradox

Apollo Go, a Baidu-owned autonomous ride-hailing platform, has received approval from local government permits to offer a self-driving commercial robotaxi service in the Pingshan district of China’s economic hub Shenzhen, the platform announced Thursday. The driving route covers several core areas of the Pingshan district, according to the announcement. Users…

NEW YORK (AP) — Countless artists have taken inspiration from “The Starry Night” since Vincent Van Gogh painted the swirling scene in 1889. Now artificial intelligence systems are doing the same, training themselves on a vast collection of digitized artworks to produce new images you can conjure in seconds from…

by Andrew Jones — January 18, 2023 The moon and distant Earth seen from Earth-moon Lagrange point 2 by the Queqiao relay satellite. Credit: Zhejiang University HELSINKI — China will launch its Queqiao-2 communications relay satellite in 2024 to support upcoming robotic landing missions at the lunar south pole and…

Column The rise of large language models (LLMs) built on huge stores of data and driven by artificial intelligence may seem frightening. Paradoxically, it may be the best thing in decades for the progress of human intelligence. To understand why, consider that the paperless office revolution took a leisurely four…

So you’re probably freaking out about ChatGPT—which is understandable. Since its release last year from artificial intelligence lab OpenAI, it’s created a firestorm of discourse about how these large language models will be a kind of universal disruptor, capable of doing everything from writing essays for students, pumping out SEO…

Fortune and others are reporting that Microsoft will close a $10 billion investment deal into the artificial intelligence startup before the end of this month. This is discussed in the All-in-Pod cast. The deal will have a unique structure in that Microsoft will get 49% of the company but 75%…

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SinVerse, the leading decentralized metaverse platform, has made history by becoming the first metaverse to fully implement artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The integration of AI allows for a truly immersive and dynamic virtual experience, with the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with and utilize virtual worlds. According to…

Illustration: Sam Woolley Android: not just another word for “robot.” It’s also a good option for anyone who wants a mobile device unshackled by the closed operating systems used by certain other smartphone manufacturers. Or, most importantly for our purposes, a library of games that’s nearly bottomless. All those options…

AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File Electronic strike zones are officially coming to Triple-A baseball. According to a report from ESPN's Buster Olney, "The electronic strike zone will be used in all 30 Class Triple-A parks in 2023, sources told ESPN, seemingly another significant step toward the implementation of the technology at…