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We Need to (Finally) Discuss That Road & Track Article

The Truth About Cars

A few weeks ago, venerable car-enthusiast magazine/Web site Road & Track created a mini-controversy with the deletion of an article from the Internet. Had he let it stand, however begrudgingly, he wouldn't be answering questions about the magazine's ethics. Sometimes it's better to leave things alone.

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Kicking It With Robots

Cars That Think

On page 40 of this issue, Peter Stone—past president of the RoboCup Federation, professor in the computer science department of the University of Texas at Austin, and executive director of Sony AI America—captures some of that unbridled enthusiasm and gives us the history of the event. to showcase the coolest robots they could find.

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Video Friday: Robots for Humanity

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IEEE SSRR 2023 : 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS Cybathlon Challenges : 2 February 2024, ZURICH Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE Enjoy today’s videos! And of course, you can read more about this project in this month’s issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine.

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Imagineer Morgan Pope Uses Electromagnetism to Spark Emotions

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He loved science fiction and popular science magazines and gravitated toward topics like astronomy and quantum mechanics. When the researchers debuted a prototype at this year’s South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, the audience’s warm reaction made it clear that they’d made an immediate emotional connection, Pope recalls.

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‘AI Pause’ Open Letter Stokes Fear and Controversy

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In the news media, the open letter has inspired straight reportage , critical accounts for not going far enough (“ shut it all down ,” Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote in Time magazine), as well as critical accounts for being both a mess and an alarmist distraction that overlooks the real AI challenges ahead.

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Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of World’s First 500-Mile EV

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(Tesla hopes to open its first greenfield car factory in Austin by year end.) The spacious sedan actually exceeded expectations, combining shelter-magazine interior luxury, slick handling and boggling acceleration. That's led by Peter Rawlinson, Lucid's Wales-born founder and CEO/CTO.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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in electrical engineering in 1976 from the University of Texas at Austin. He wrote Microprocessor Logic Design , a widely used textbook, as well as numerous articles for professional and trade magazines. He returned to school in 1972 but continued to serve as a pilot in the Air Force Reserve. He earned a Ph.D.