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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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Among them are 23 former IEEE presidents as well as a who’s who of engineering leaders and technology pioneers including GM Chief Executive Mary Barra , Google founding CEO Larry Page , and Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su. IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu There’s also the HKN Career Conversations podcast , hosted by society alumni.

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Chatbot: A New Robotics Podcast from IEEE Spectrum

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Spotify ↗ • Apple Podcasts ↗ • Google Podcasts ↗ • Amazon Music ↗ • Pocket Casts ↗ • Podcast Addict ↗ • Deezer ↗ • Player FM ↗ • Podchaser ↗ • Listen Notes ↗ • YouTube ↗ • RSS Feed ↗ The way the Chatbot podcast works is that we invite a couple of robotics experts to talk with each other about a topic that they have in common. .

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AI Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

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ChatGPT tries to impress the users…What it’s trying to do is trying to be as good as humans in a variety of tasks: answering questions, being conversational, writing sonnets, and writing essays. Are there some definite no-nos that should guide the next steps toward intelligent machines? Acemoglu: Yes. Is that a good thing?

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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. That's why we started developing Bex, a quadruped walking robot.

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Hyundai to debuts a number of new automotive connectivity and assistance technologies at CES, including Siri and Eyes Free mode

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Mobile High-Definition Link: MHL technology delivers 1080p60 uncompressed video with up to eight channels of digital audio from a mobile device to a dashboard display, all while charging the device. Drivers can dictate messages, search for music, find real-time weather and ask directions. Earlier post.).

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Hello, ChatGPT—Please Explain Yourself!

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More than one million people have signed up to try out the free service since it was launched last week, and it has wowed users with its ability to engage in natural-sounding conversation, provide detailed answers to technical questions and even solve coding challenges. The conversation has been edited for length.

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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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