• Video Friday: Human to Humanoid

    Video Friday: Human to Humanoid
    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.
    HRI 2024: 11–15 March 2024, BOULDER, COLORADOEurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCEICRA 2024: 13–17 May 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPANRoboCup 2024: 17–22 July 2024, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDSEnjoy today’s videos! We pr
  • ‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images?

    ‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images?
    Experts say Gemini was not thoroughly tested, after image generator depicted variety of historical figures as people of colourGoogle’s co-founder Sergey Brin has kept a low profile since quietly returning to work at the company. But the troubled launch of Google’s artificial intelligence model Gemini resulted in a rare public utterance recently: “We definitely messed up.”Brin’s comments, at an AI “hackathon” event on 2 March, follow a slew of social medi
  • AI could be an extraordinary force for good. So why do our politicians still not have a plan? | Gaby Hinsliff

    AI could be an extraordinary force for good. So why do our politicians still not have a plan? | Gaby Hinsliff
    If our leaders keep ceding power to the nerdy wizards of Silicon Valley, we will have no say over the kind of world we want to live inFour weeks ago in San Francisco’s Chinatown, an empty self-driving taxi was mobbed and set on fire. It’s still not clear whether the crowd attacked the Waymo robot car – billed as “the future of transportation” – out of some broader irritation with a Californian tech elite seen as threatening jobs, anger over autonomous vehicles
  • Black Box: the connectionists - podcast

    Black Box: the connectionists - podcast
    This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up working with a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they don’t truly understand how it works. This is about a collision between two mysterious intelligences – two black boxes – human and artificial. And it’s already having profound consequences Continue reading...
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  • Black Box: The connectionists

    Black Box: The connectionists
    Scientist Geoffrey Hinton set out to understand the brain and ended up working with a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they don’t truly understand how it works. This is about a collision between two mysterious intelligences – two black boxes – human and artificial. Subscribe to Black Box, a new series on artificial intelligence, for more episodes Continue reading...