• Grok Gets Some Competition, ChatGPT Gets Depressed, and More of the Top AI News Stories This Week

    What happened with AI this week? Well, the passage of the European Union’s AI Act—a landmark piece of regulation that seeks tackle the potential harms of the AI industry—is a pretty big deal. It could totally reshape how European nations’ relationship to the technology. But a lot of less consequential if no less weird…Read more...
  • Video Friday: The Simplest Walking Robot

    Video Friday: The Simplest Walking Robot
    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.Cybathlon Challenges: 02 February 2024, ZURICHEurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCEICRA 2024: 13–17 May 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPANEnjoy today’s videos! We wrote about an earlier version of this absurdly simple walking robo
  • This Robotic Pack Mule Can Carry Your Gear (and You)

    This Robotic Pack Mule Can Carry Your Gear (and You)
    This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. The useful niche that quadrupedal robots seem to have found for themselves, at least for the moment, is infrastructure inspection. They’ve had a mild to moderate amount of success monitoring industrial sites, tracking construction progress, and things of that nature. Which is great! But when you look at what humans have historically relied on quadrupeds for, there’s a little bit of situa
  • Best of 2023: Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote – podcast

    Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2023, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it.From September: In search of a half-remembered passage among the French writer’s voluminous work, I turned to AI to help me find it. The results were instructive – just not about Proust Continue reading...
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