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Tesla AI Day 2022: livestream link posted online, Optimus teaser released

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Tesla AI Day 2 will feature “hardware demos” and tons of technical details: Elon Musk. But the vision is for them to serve millions of households, such as cooking, mowing lawns, and caring for the elderly,” explained Elon Musk in an essay published in China Cyberspace magazine. The Significance of Our Hands.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

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The magazine was successful in its aim, but it also demonstrated that it takes a very determined driver and an elaborate set of procedures to bypass Tesla’s driver-monitoring systems. . The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat. Only it didn’t.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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As for the future impact of PARC research—the sky’s the limit. There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. The originator of that phrase is unclear.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. “It Artwick was right. We should try to get our game worlds augmented via aerial data.”

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DALL-E 2’s Failures Are the Most Interesting Thing About It

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When unveiling the system, Google announced that it would not be releasing code or a public demo due to risks of misuse and generation of harmful images. It seems likely that a future version will correct this issue, however, particularly since OpenAI has plenty of text-generation expertise with its GPT-3 team.

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