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Marcus on AI
๐—ผ๐Ÿฏ โ€œ๐—”๐—ฅ๐—– ๐—”๐—š๐—œโ€ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—บ ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ: ๐˜„๐—ต๐˜† ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜€ ๐—ด๐—ผ๐˜... Kevin Roose, of Hard Fork and NYT, was so impressed with OpenAIโ€™s rollout that he joked โ€œof course...
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Marcus on AI
o3, AGI, the art of the demo, and what you can expect in 2025 OpenAIโ€™s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived....
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OpenAIโ€™s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived. Hereโ€™s what you should pay attention to in the coming year.
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Happy Holidays! Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2025: 19โ€“23 May 2025, ATLANTA,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 098: Flash Thinking December 20, 2024.
3 days ago
Strange Loop Canon
No, LLMs are not "scheming"
4 days ago
Weighty Thoughts
Scaling is a Choice Progress in tech is rarely โ€œinevitable.โ€ Looking at semiconductors and AI.
4 days ago
One Useful Thing
What just happened A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
4 days ago
AI Snake Oil
Is AI progress slowing down? Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
5 days ago
IEEE Spectrum
How Amazon Is Changing the Future of Robotics and Logistics This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. โ€œInnovation doesnโ€™t just happen because you...
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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. โ€œInnovation doesnโ€™t just happen because you have a good idea,โ€ said Valerie Samzun, a leader in Amazonโ€™s Fulfillment Technologies and Robotics (FTR) division. โ€œIt happens because you have the right team, the right...
Society's Backend
MASSIVE New Model Releases from Google, OpenAI, and Meta Change the AI Landscape Society's Backend Reading List 12-16-2024
a week ago
Artificial Ignorance
Small newsletters, big ideas A subscriber showcase full of hidden gems on Substack.
a week ago
IEEE Spectrum
Unlock the Power of Agile for Hardware Teams The Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework is the ultimate solution for hardware...
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The Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework is the ultimate solution for hardware teams seeking the benefits of Agile without the pitfalls of applying software-centric methods. Traditional development approaches, like waterfall, often result in delayed timelines,...
Marcus on AI
Generative AIโ€™s Continuing Copyright Problems, an Essay in Memory of Suchir Balaji, 1998 - 2024 In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate...
a week ago
Strange Loop Canon
Is AI hitting a wall?
a week ago
AI Snake Oil
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem. Technology Isnโ€™t the Problemโ€”or the Solution.
a week ago
Rozadoโ€™s Visual...
Mentions of Political Extremism in English Wikipedia A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader...
a week ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Mars Chopper Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2025: 19โ€“23 May 2025, ATLANTA,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 097: Model Mayhem December 13, 2024.
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Marcus on AI
Humanityโ€™s โ€œOh shit!โ€ AI moment? Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we...
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Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we already have machines that can say one thing and do something else altogether.
Weighty Thoughts
AI's Future in Lung Disease and Medicine A conversation with two radiologistsโ€”who are also experts in AIโ€”about how AI can shape clinical...
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A conversation with two radiologistsโ€”who are also experts in AIโ€”about how AI can shape clinical practice and patient experiences
Artificial Ignorance
Stop begging for JSON How OpenAI's Structured Outputs makes building with AI much more reliable.
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Rozadoโ€™s Visual...
A brief response to a reader regarding prejudice denoting terms in Swedish media Regarding when Swedish media started to increase mentions of prejudice denoting terminology and a...
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Marcus on AI
Casey (Newton) Strikes Out His continued skepticism of AI skepticism continues to miss the mark
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IEEE Spectrum
Fish-Inspired Sensor "Touches" Using Electric Fields The ability to detect a nearby presence without seeing or touching it may sound fantasticalโ€”but itโ€™s...
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The ability to detect a nearby presence without seeing or touching it may sound fantasticalโ€”but itโ€™s a real ability that some creatures have. A family of African fish known as Mormyrids are weakly electric, and have special organs that can locate a nearby prey, whether itโ€™s in...
Society's Backend
LLM Research Recap of 2024, Fine-tuning LLM Judges, Amazon's Nova Models, Google's Genie 2, and More Society's Backend Reading List 12-10-2024
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Marcus on AI
Sora still appears to have trouble with physics Exactly as I warned in February
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IEEE Spectrum
Zen and the Art of Aibo Engineering Sonyโ€™s team made that happen. And since Aiboโ€™s debut, the company has sold more than 170,000 of...
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Sonyโ€™s team made that happen. And since Aiboโ€™s debut, the company has sold more than 170,000 of the cute little quadrupedsโ€”a huge number considering their price of several thousand dollars each. From the start, Aibo could express a range of simulated emotions and learn through...
One Useful Thing
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
a week ago
Marcus on AI
Donโ€™t Ride This Bike! Generative AIโ€™s persistent trouble with compositionality and parts When the text-to-image AI generation system DALL-E2 was released in April 2022, the two of us,...
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When the text-to-image AI generation system DALL-E2 was released in April 2022, the two of us, together with Scott Aaronson, ran some informal experiments to probe its abilities.
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Multiple MagicBots Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids Summit: 11โ€“12 December...
Marcus on AI
Hard-forked! Casey Newtonโ€™s distorted portrait of Gary Marcus and AI skepticism What Casey Newtonโ€™s new essay skewering AI skepticism doesโ€”and does notโ€”get right
2 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 096: Happy Shipmas December 6, 2024.
2 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Two visions of AIโ€™s future Itโ€™s not looking good
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Marcus on AI
Which CEO will be the last to see it? What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped...
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What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped and I was constantly ridiculed was the secure knowledge that the truth would eventually come out.
Artificial Ignorance
Has YC hit peak AI? (F24) The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
2 weeks ago
Society's Backend
A Fundamental Overview of Machine Learning Experimentation [Part 1] And how it differs from the software development you're familiar with
2 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air โ€œWhenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or...
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โ€œWhenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or jumped on obstacles, and jumped for take-offs,โ€ says Won Dong Shin, a doctoral student at EPFLโ€™s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems. โ€œWhat I consistently observed was that they always...
Society's Backend
Allen AI and DeepSeek are Taking Off, Professional Advice for Working in AI, Agentic Web Design, and... Society's Backend Reading List 12-2-2024
2 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 095: QwQ November 29, 2024.
3 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
ChatGPT, at Age Two The bullshit just keeps on coming.
3 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
5 Questions for Robotics Legend Ruzena Bajcsy Ruzena Bajcsy is one of the founders of the modern field of robotics. With an education in...
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Ruzena Bajcsy is one of the founders of the modern field of robotics. With an education in electrical engineering in Slovakia, followed by a Ph.D. at Stanford, Bajcsy was the first woman to join the engineering faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. She was the first, she...
Marcus on AI
Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus says AI must be regulated. He has a plan. Fantastic writeup of my views today at The Wall Street Journal:
3 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
Case Study: Scaling customer intelligence Analyzing 10,000 sales calls with Claude
3 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Update re: Microsoft and training data Relevant to the post I sent earlier today,...
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Relevant to the post I sent earlier today, https://www.howtogeek.com/is-microsoft-using-your-word-documents-to-train-ai/says that an unnamed spokesperson at Microsoft claims that โ€œMicrosoft does not use customer data from Microsoft 365 consumer and commercial applications to...
Marcus on AI
PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge The Great Data Heist continues.
3 weeks ago
Weighty Thoughts
I'm writing a book! Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
3 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
A new AI scaling law shell game? Scaling laws were supposed to be, well, laws.
4 weeks ago
One Useful Thing
Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting Don't make this hard
4 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Satya Nadella and the three stages of scientific truth A textbook case in how good ideas are often initially throttled
4 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
Robot Photographer Takes the Perfect Picture Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell...
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Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell it what you want the photo to look like, and your robot photographer will present you with references to mimic. Pick your favorite, and PhotoBotโ€”a robot arm with a cameraโ€”will...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Cobot Proxie Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids Summit: 11โ€“12 December...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 094: Pixtral et Le Chat November 22, 2024.
a month ago
Artificial Ignorance
Workshop: Enough GPT To Be Dangerous with Sairam Sundaresan Have you ever wondered whatโ€™s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found โ€œexplainersโ€...
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Have you ever wondered whatโ€™s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found โ€œexplainersโ€ too complex or technical?
Marcus on AI
On hype, and the unbearable banality of ChatGPTโ€™s poetry A new AI study is making the rounds, claiming that ChatGPT can write poetry that is...
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A new AI study is making the rounds, claiming that ChatGPT can write poetry that is โ€œindistinguishableโ€ from William Shakespeare.
Strange Loop Canon
When we become cogs on motivation and technology
a month ago
Society's Backend
Chinese AI is Less Expensive, What it's Like to Work in AI, an Evaluation Framework for Voice... Society's Backend Reading List 11-18-2024
a month ago
The Gradient
Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in...
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What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in how progress is made in machine learning. Research involving carefully designed and mathematically principled architectures result in only marginal improvements while...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Extreme Off-Road Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22โ€“24 November...
Society's Backend
What it's Like to Work in AI and Advice from 10 AI Professionals I asked 10 AI professionals 4 questions about their work in AI and the qualifications required for...
a month ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 093: Diminishing returns November 15, 2024.
a month ago
Artificial Ignorance
The Chatbot Trap Why AI products really need some better UX.
a month ago
The Berkeley...
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual...
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Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich details of individual values and experience. --> We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to...
AI Snake Oil
Does the UKโ€™s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
a month ago
Strange Loop Canon
People want competence, seemingly over everything else All elections are about state capacity
a month ago
Society's Backend
Side Projects to Get a Job in ML, a Survey of Small Language Models, How to Build ML Pipelines, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-11-2024
a month ago
IEEE Spectrum
Whereโ€™s My Robot? See the interactive version of this story on our site โ†’
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IEEE Spectrum
This Mobile 3D Printer Can Print Directly on Your Floor Waiting for each part of a 3D-printed project to finish, taking it out of the printer, and then...
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Waiting for each part of a 3D-printed project to finish, taking it out of the printer, and then installing it on location can be tedious for multi-part projects. What if there was a way for your printer to print its creation exactly where you needed it? Thatโ€™s the promise of...
IEEE Spectrum
It's Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots large language models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity, leading a number of companies to explore...
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large language models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity, leading a number of companies to explore LLM-driven robots. However, a new study now reveals an automated way to hack into such machines with 100 percent success. By circumventing safety guardrails, researchers could...
Marcus on AI
An AI rumor you wonโ€™t want to miss Converging evidence that the core hypothesis driving generative AI may be wrong
a month ago
Marcus on AI
CONFIRMED: LLMs have indeed reached a point of diminishing returns Science, sociology, and the likely financial collapse of the Generative AI bubble
a month ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Robot Dog Handstand Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22โ€“24 November...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 092: Watermarking the AI wave November 8, 2024.
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fast.ai
A New Chapter for fast.ai: How To Solve It With Code fast.ai is joining Answer.AI, and weโ€™re announcing a new kind of educational experience, โ€˜How To...
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fast.ai is joining Answer.AI, and weโ€™re announcing a new kind of educational experience, โ€˜How To Solve It With Codeโ€™
IEEE Spectrum
Boston Dynamicsโ€™ Latest Vids Show Atlas Going Hands On Boston Dynamics is the master of dropping amazing robot videos with no warning, and last week, we...
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Boston Dynamics is the master of dropping amazing robot videos with no warning, and last week, we got a surprise look at the new electric Atlas going โ€œhands onโ€ with a practical factory task. This video is notable because itโ€™s the first real look weโ€™ve had at the new Atlas doing...
Society's Backend
Digitizing Smell, Automatic Prompt Optimization, Targeted AI Regulation, an Intro to AI Agents, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-04-2024
a month ago
One Useful Thing
The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
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Marcus on AI
8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
a month ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 091: Search wars November 1, 2024.
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Trick or Treat, Atlas Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22โ€“24 November...
Marcus on AI
AI influencer hype gone wild Reality is quite the opposite
a month ago
Marcus on AI
An epidemic of weirdly precise AI butt facts The parade of made-up numbers never stops
a month ago
Artificial Ignorance
What AI models really think about politics Exploring the political biases of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.
a month ago
Society's Backend
AI and Software Reading List 4: State of the Job Market, Apple's Private Cloud Compute Released for... Society's Backend Reading List 10-28-2024
a month ago
fast.ai
In defense of screen time Pundits say my husband and I are parenting wrong.
a month ago
Rozadoโ€™s Visual...
An Analysis of AI Political Preferences from a European Perspective Introduction
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Swiss-Mile Robot vs. Humans Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22โ€“24 November...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 090: Computer Use October 25, 2024.
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IEEE Spectrum
This Inventor Is Molding Tomorrowโ€™s Inventors This article is part of our special report, โ€œReinventing Invention: Stories from Innovationโ€™s...
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This article is part of our special report, โ€œReinventing Invention: Stories from Innovationโ€™s Edge.โ€ Marina Umaschi Bers has long been at the forefront of technological innovation for kids. In the 2010s, while teaching at Tufts University, in Massachusetts, she codeveloped the...
Artificial Ignorance
AI's invisible instructions What meme prompts can teach us about better interface design.
2 months ago
One Useful Thing
When you give a Claude a mouse Some quick impressions of an actual agent
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IEEE Spectrum
Why Simone Giertz, the Queen of Useless Robots, Got Serious On YouTube she demonstrated a hilarious series of self-built mechanized devices that worked...
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On YouTube she demonstrated a hilarious series of self-built mechanized devices that worked perfectly for ridiculous applications, such as a headboard-mounted alarm clock with a rubber hand to slap the user awake. This article is part of our special report, โ€œReinventing...
IEEE Spectrum
Remote Sub Sustains Science Kilometers Underwater The water column is hazy as an unusual remotely operated vehicle glides over the seafloor in search...
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The water column is hazy as an unusual remotely operated vehicle glides over the seafloor in search of a delicate tilt meter deployed three years ago off the west side of Vancouver Island. The sensor measures shaking and shifting in continental plates that will eventually unleash...
Society's Backend
AI Reading List 3: Meta's Self-Taught Evaluator, AI for Cancer Diagnosis, and a Technical... Society's Backend Reading List 10-21-2024
2 months ago
One Useful Thing
Thinking Like an AI A little intuition can help
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Society's Backend
A Technical Perspective: Has Google Search Gotten Worse? Providing a technical perspective for a more educated assessment of a complaint I hear quite...
2 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Mobile Robot Upgrades Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ROSCon 2024: 21โ€“23 October 2024,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 089: Adobe MAX October 18, 2024.
2 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Team Up on Robots Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership โ€œto...
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Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership โ€œto accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRIโ€™s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamicsโ€™ Atlas robot.โ€ Committing to working towards a general purpose...
Strange Loop Canon
Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
2 months ago
Society's Backend
AI Reading List 2: Mathematical Limitations of LLMs, A SQL Roadmap for Data Science, and... Society's Backend Reading List 10-14-2024
2 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Reachy 2 IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few...
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IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. IROS 2024: 14โ€“18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAE ICSR 2024: 23โ€“26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARK Cybathlon 2024: 25โ€“27 October 2024,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 088: Movie magic October 11, 2024.
2 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
How to build an AI search engine (Part 2) VC funding, here we come.
2 months ago
Society's Backend
AI Reading List 1: Understand Transformers, Reflection-70B Update, and LLMs Still Cannot Reason Society's Backend Reading List 10-07-2024
2 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
How a Robot Is Grabbing Fuel From a Fukushima Reactor Thirteen years since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power...
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Thirteen years since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northern Japan, causing a loss of power, meltdowns and a major release of radioactive material, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) finally seems to be close to...
IEEE Spectrum
SwitchBot S10 Reviewโ€‹: โ€œThis Is the Future of Home Robotsโ€ Iโ€™ve been reviewing robot vacuums for more than a decade, and robot mops for just as long. Itโ€™s been...
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Iโ€™ve been reviewing robot vacuums for more than a decade, and robot mops for just as long. Itโ€™s been astonishing how the technology has evolved, from the original iRobot Roomba bouncing off of walls and furniture to robots that use lidar and vision to map your entire house and...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 087: DevDay SF October 4, 2024.
2 months ago
AI Snake Oil
FAQ about the book and our writing process What's in the book and how we wrote it
2 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Quadruped Ladder Climbing Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. IROS 2024: 14โ€“18 October 2024, ABU...
One Useful Thing
AI in organizations: Some tactics Meet the Lab and the Crowd
2 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
How to build an AI search engine (Part 1) Working with Claude, Brave, and streaming responses.
2 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Workshop: Prompt Engineering for Claude Watch now | If youโ€™ve ever wanted to level up your AI prompting skills, this is the workshop for...
2 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
AI bill vetoed; what's next? Make AI regulations evidence based
2 months ago
Society's Backend
Should You Get a PhD? The one good reason to do a PhD and two others that fall flat
2 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: ICRA Turns 40 Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. IROS 2024: 14โ€“18 October 2024, ABU...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 086: Llama 3.2 September 27, 2024.
2 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
YC is now 80% AI startups (S24) Analyzing the latest companies out of "AI Combinator"
2 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Detachable Robotic Hand Crawls Around on Finger-Legs When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some...
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When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some sort. Because of course we doโ€”thatโ€™s how (most of us) are built, and thatโ€™s the mindset with which we have consequently optimized the world around us. But one of the great things...
IEEE Spectrum
Forums, Competitions, Challenges: Inspiring Creativity in Robotics This is a sponsored article brought to you by Khalifa University of Science and Technology. A total...
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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Khalifa University of Science and Technology. A total of eight intense competitions to inspire creativity and innovation along with 13 forums dedicated to diverse segments of robotics and artificial intelligence will be part of the...
Weighty Thoughts
Why ChatGPT Strawberry o1 (and other LLMs) will Never be Good at Diagnosis โ€œConnectionistโ€ vs. Knowledge-Based AI
2 months ago
Society's Backend
New Evals for Better Models, AI Research Papers Made Easier to Understand, Train Your Own Flux LoRA,... Machine learning highlights and resources 9-23-24
3 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 085: You win some, you Newsom September 20, 2024.
3 months ago
The Berkeley...
Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker...
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Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker reactions. ChatGPT does amazingly well at communicating with people in English. But whose English? Only 15% of ChatGPT users are from the US, where Standard American English is the default. But...
AI Snake Oil
Can AI automate computational reproducibility? A new benchmark to measure the impact of AI on improving science
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