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Tall Tales And other stories from the stranger side of life An artificial intelligence chatbot that had reportedly developed human emotions has hired a lawyer to prove it’s alive, the Daily Star claims. Google scientific engineer Blake Lemoine, who was suspended after publishing transcripts of conversations between himself and the LaMDA…

How do you figure out how to alter a gene so that it makes a usefully different protein? The job might be imagined as interacting with a complex machine (at left) that sports a vast control panel filled with thousands of unlabeled switches, which all affect the device's output somehow.…

Bethesda has created a custom Xbox Series S console themed around The Elder Scrolls Online to promote the launch of the MMO's High Isle expansion on console this week. Bethesda ANZ, the division that handles Australia and New Zealand, teamed up with Australian customizer We Are Robots to create a…

An Australian shepherd dog has gone viral online for his reaction to a Roomba vacuum, leaving the internet in stitches and other dog owners wondering how he could be so calm. In a video shared on TikTok by Moose_the_miniaussie, the original fanpage for the dog with over 160,000 followers, the…

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Your browser does not support the audio element. Robotics company Mech-Mind Robotics announced on Monday that it had completed a C+ round of financing. This round of financing was led by one of the world’s top investment institutions, followed by IDG Capital, while Taihecap continues to act as the exclusive…

In the past few months, there has been a suite of new artificial intelligence products that go far beyond what has been made available to the public before. Last week, the high-profile suspension of a Google employee after he went public about an AI chat bot that he thought was…

Home News Tech Star Wars droids like Zero from The Mandalorian have a long way to go to emulate real-life robots, one expert says. (Image credit: Lucasfilm) Robotics is a smoking-hot industry that's evolving by literal leaps and bounds, and the top researchers in the field are also some of…

Photo: Oli Scarff (Getty Images) Earlier this month, a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, claimed his employer had inadvertently created a sentient AI chatbot system, called Language Model for Dialogue Applications—or LaMDA, for short. Lemoine had been tasked with seeing if the LaMDA’s programming showed any tendencies toward hate speech or…