Tim Smithers on LinkedIn: Generative AI: Useful Tools or Expensive Toys?www.linkedin.com Here are the notes for a seminar I was invited to give at the
Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) last month,
called Generative AI: Useful Tools or…
Rodney Brooks
Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks
OpenAI seeks ‘vast quantities’ of nuclear fusion to power superhuman AIwww.independent.co.uk ChatGPT creator seeks ‘holy grail of clean energy’ to build artificial intelligence
Cruise founder Kyle Vogt is back with a robot startup | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com Kyle Vogt, the former founder and CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, has a new VC-backed robotics startup focused on household chores. Vogt announced
Elon Musk Says It Will Be A Decade Before Most Cars Are Self-Driving — There Is A More 'Immediate Concern' At Hand - Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)benzinga.com
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Will Robots Rise Up And Demand Their Rights?content.time.com Could a robot ever really want anything? The hard-core reductionists among us, myself included, think that in principle this must be possible. Humans, after all, are machines made up of organic...
Apple Kills Its Electric Car Projectwww.nytimes.com The car, which Apple spent billions of dollars researching, had been intended as a rival to Tesla’s E.V.s, which include autonomous driving features.
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Scientists Resort to Once-Unthinkable Solutions to Cool the Planetwww.wsj.com Three geoengineering projects seek to alter the chemistry of the atmosphere and the ocean. Critics warn of unintended consequences.
Tesla’s Cybertruck has a serious problem that only a complete redesign can fixwww.fastcompany.com Elon Musk is calling for Lego-like precision in the Cybertruck. Its design makes that an impossible ask.
Waymo recalls and updates robotaxi software after two cars crashed into the same towed truck | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com Waymo is issuing its first-ever recall after two of its autonomous vehicles crashed into the same towed pickup truck in December.
Waymo robotaxi set on fire in San Francisco's Chinatownsfstandard.com A crowd in San Francisco's Chinatown surrounded a Waymo robotaxi Saturday, broke the windows and threw fireworks inside, setting it ablaze.
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NASA names astronauts for SpaceX's Crew-9 mission to the ISSwww.space.com Crew-9 will lift off no earlier than August.
That Awesome Robot Demo Could Have a Human in the Loopspectrum.ieee.org How to tell whether a robot is being teleoperated
Watch Chinese startup Landspace launch and land reusable rocket prototype for 1st time (video)www.space.com A test version of the company's Zhuque-3 rocket soared about 1,150 feet (350 meters) high on Jan. 19.
The amazing helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, will fly no morearstechnica.com Ingenuity has spent more than two hours flying above Mars since April 2021.
San Francisco takes legal action over ‘unsafe,’ ‘disruptive’ self-driving carswww.washingtonpost.com San Francisco is suing California over an August decision to allow two major autonomous car companies to expand in the city.