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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

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SLAM is a technique for building maps incrementally as a robot moves around in the world. Regardless of what you might think about AI, the reality is that just about every successful deployment has either one of two expedients: It has a person somewhere in the loop, or the cost of failure, should the system blunder, is very low.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? Or 60,000 tokens.

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What Is Generative AI?

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It can also theoretically generate instructions for building a bomb or creating a bioweapon, though safeguards are supposed to prevent such types of misuse. It’s the transformer architecture, first shown in this seminal 2017 paper from Google , that powers today’s large language models.

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TTAC's Best Cars of 2023

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I think my list of faves likely is influenced by my overarching love for compact cars. I’d probably choose a non-Morizo package as I still have people who like me and would want to ride with me, but that Toyota can build and sell such an uncompromising car (five-door hatch with just two seats!) Is remarkable.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. Roboticist, Google Brain.

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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If you were a reader of IEEE Spectrum in 2023 with an interest in semiconductors , this list of the top stories says some interesting things about you. But you’re also a discerning and forward-looking person. In 2022, a schism in the chip design world and at Google erupted into the open. But the search giant still backs its AI.

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A World-Class Tech MBA on Your Own Schedule

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in person, hybrid, or online) match the student’s needs? This flexibility is what made it possible for many of Purdue online MBA students to earn their degrees, and it ranks at the top of the list of reasons Kristin Zalewski (class of 2021), Matthew Kern (class of 2022), and Christian Coakley (class of 2023) chose the program.