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Kawasaki’s Robot Ibex: Can It Be Tamed?

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The conversation was conducted in Japanese. What follows (in italics) are Google Translate's best attempts at rendering Soube's observations into workable English: Through the development of Kaleido, we felt the difficulty of biped robots. Big, powerful quadrupeds are super cool, especially if they have horns.

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Hello, ChatGPT—Please Explain Yourself!

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A new AI-powered chatbot released by OpenAI called ChatGPT has taken the Internet by storm. This has led to rapturous reviews and claims that ChatGPT heralds the death of the Google search engine or the re-invention of the education system. The conversation has been edited for length. What would count as misuse?

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Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance

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And I was like, “It could definitely dance. That definitely could do a lot of dancing.” And I was like, “We could definitely do a dance with all of the robots. Definitely. Ackerman: It definitely answers the question. Amy, do you want to just start this conversation with Monica? Could they dance?

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TeraWatt Infrastructure aims to address the massive energy capacity needs of EV fleet charging depots

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These sites will also require massive amounts of power capacity, and that means close coordination with local electrical utilities. Palmer explained to Charged how TeraWatt Infrastructure intends to tackle the problem of providing power for charging large EV fleets. Can you get the amount of power in the timeframe you want it?

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No Garage Space to Work In

Open Source Civic EV Kit

keep the Civic EV and sell the 914 EV just because the Civic is more practical, has more power and is less of a target. The 914 is definitely a classic, but it comes with all the quirks and decay of an older car. I also spent today writing some preliminary documentation for the initial conversion steps on the Civic EV.

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Dr. ChatGPT Will Interface With You Now

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Kohane, a practicing physician with a computer science PhD, got early access to GPT-4, the latest version of the large language model that powers ChatGPT. And he wanted to have a conversation with me about it, because healthcare was a domain that he’s long been interested in. And this is definitely not a case that anybody knows about.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

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Because if indeed it does, then perhaps it's possible to use the descriptive power of human language to compress images more efficiently than the algorithms used today, which work with brightness and color information at the pixel level rather than attempting to understand the contents of the image.

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