• Where’s My Robot?

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  • This Mobile 3D Printer Can Print Directly on Your Floor

    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 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? That’s the promise of MobiPrint, a new 3D printing robot that can move around a room, printing designs directly onto the floor. MobiPrint, designed by Daniel Campos Zamora at the University of Washington, consists of a modified off-the-shel
  • LJ Hooker branch used AI to generate real estate listing with non-existent schools

    LJ Hooker branch used AI to generate real estate listing with non-existent schools
    Agency apologises after an ad said a house in Farley, NSW, was close to two ‘excellent’ schools even though there are none in the townFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe principal of a branch of one of Australia’s largest real estate companies has admitted using ChatGPT to generate property listings after a rental home was advertised as being close to two “excellent” schools that didn&r
  • It's Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots

    It's Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots
    AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and other applications powered by 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 manipulate self-driving systems into colliding with pedestrians and robot dogs into hunting for harmful places to detonate bombs.Essentially, LLMs are supercharged
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  • ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators?

    ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators?
    A Dutch publisher has announced that it will use AI to translate some of its books – but those in the industry are worried about the consequences if this becomes the norm As anyone who has tried pointing their phone’s camera at a menu in a foreign country lately will know, machine translation has improved rapidly since the first days of Google Translate. The utility of AI-powered translation in situations like this is unquestionable – but the proposed use of AI in literary tran
  • Australia to pursue AI and social media regulation despite any Trump administration opposition, MP says

    Australia to pursue AI and social media regulation despite any Trump administration opposition, MP says
    When asked about Elon Musk’s objection to regulation, Ed Husic says government will ‘do what we have to do’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian government will push on with regulation of social media and artificial intelligence despite the incoming Trump administration’s opposition to both, Ed Husic has signalled.On Monday the industry minister sought to reassure Australians that the Albanese government would pursue “national pri
  • AI tool could influence Home Office immigration decisions, critics say

    AI tool could influence Home Office immigration decisions, critics say
    Campaigners call for end of ‘robo-caseworkers’ amid fears officials will bow to automated enforcement proposals A Home Office artificial intelligence tool which proposes enforcement action against adult and child migrants could make it too easy for officials to rubberstamp automated life-changing decisions, campaigners have said.As new details of the AI-powered immigration enforcement system emerged, critics called it a “robo-caseworker” that could “encode injustice