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GM Webchat with Chris Borroni-Bird on Reinventing the Automobile, Friday 2pm EDT

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EDT, with Christopher Borroni-Bird, GM’s Director of Advanced Technology Vehicle Concepts and co-author of the book Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21 st Century. Chris Borroni-Bird, Reinventing the Automobile.

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Toyota Research Institute CEO Pratt outlines initial AI/robotics mandates; trillion-mile reliability

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The investment is in addition to the $50 million investment over the next five years with MIT and Stanford, each close by TRI’s new offices, to establish joint fundamental artificial intelligence research centers at each university.) While our company was making fabric looms, automobiles were defining the future. Earlier post.) (The

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Daimler chief Zetsche: Daimler working toward swarm organization; mobility services, digitalization and e-mobility

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Such as the person in charge and the team manager, or straight from the person responsible to the executive board. … At the same time, the bottom line is that all of these business models are based on the hardware, the automobile. At the moment, we have up to six levels of decision-making.

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Toyota Research Institute invests $22M in research on AI, robotics and autonomous driving at University of Michigan

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We will also focus on expanding the benefit of mobility technology to in-home support of older persons and those with special needs. TRI-ANN is the third TRI facility, joining TRI offices in Palo Alto near Stanford and in Cambridge, near MIT. —Gil Pratt. Both will retain U-M faculty positions part-time. Gill Pratt.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? And we’re really good at that.

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Ford OpenXC platform out of beta; open-source hardware and software platform

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Through the OpenXC platform, we are paving the way for new opportunities that will help us prepare for the future of transportation where the automobile, mobile networks and the Internet cloud come together in ways never before imagined. —Venkatesh Prasad, senior technical leader of Open Innovation for Ford Research and Innovation.

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Ford takes OpenXC research platform global, engaging local developers for market-specific connected vehicle apps in India

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At the NASSCOM India Leadership Summit, Ford is demonstrating the OpenXC research platform and the potential of open-source application development for the automobile with the first third-party mobile app created with the OpenXC toolkit. NASSCOM is the industry association for the IT-BPO (business process outsourcing) sector in India.

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