• Video Friday: Tap Finger, Move Mountain

    Video Friday: Tap Finger, Move Mountain
    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 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXASCybathlon Challenges: 2 February 2024, ZURICHEurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCEEnjoy today’s videos! This is such an excellent use for autonomous robots: difficult
  • Generating AI Images Uses as Much Energy as Charging Your Phone, Study Finds

    Creating images with generative AI could use as much energy as charging your smartphone according to a new study Friday that measures the environmental impact of generative AI models for the first time. Popular models like ChatGPT’s Dall-E and Midjourney may produce more carbon than driving 4 miles.Read more...
  • ‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza

    ‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza
    Concerns over data-driven ‘factory’ that significantly increases the number of targets for strikes in the Palestinian territoryIsrael-Hamas war – live updatesIsrael’s military has made no secret of the intensity of its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. In the early days of the offensive, the head of its air force spoke of relentless, “around the clock” airstrikes. His forces, he said, were only striking military targets, but he added: “We are not being surg
  • Would I use AI to write my novels? I'd get better results from a monkey with an iPhone | Monica Ali

    Would I use AI to write my novels? I'd get better results from a monkey with an iPhone | Monica Ali
    I asked ChatGPT to improve my latest novel and lost no sleep over the results. But I do worry about diverse voices being crowded out This summer two worlds – literature and technology – collided. News stories began appearing about authors suing OpenAI and Meta for using their works to train their large language models “without consent, without credit and without compensation”. I read them with increasing curiosity, and then I found a review of a novella, Death of an Autho
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