Benjie Holson @robobenjie has just posted part 2 of his humanoid analysis, this time concentrating on when ROI might start to make sense. https://
generalrobots.substack.com/p/humanoid-rob
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Humanoid Robots: Analysis of ROI and Economic Viability
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Medical Professionals Experiment with AI Before Consensus Established
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Reality starts to set in: "SAN FRANCISCO — Surging interest in generative AI among medical professionals since ChatGPT’s launch is perhaps a testament to its potential — but it could also lead clinicians, and patients to experiment with it before there is wider consensus on how
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LLMs: Retrieval Capabilities vs. Reasoning Limitations
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The always insightful Melanie Mitchell @melmitchell1 on what LLMs are actually doing (really good retrieval) and not doing (reasoning). https://
aiguide.substack.com/p/evaluating-l
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Three Laws of AI: Competence Overestimation and Success Factors
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Back on April 1st I posted my three laws of robotics. Here are my three laws of AI. 1. When an AI system performs a task, human observers immediately estimate its general competence in areas that seem related. Usually that estimate is wildly overinflated. 2. Most successful AI
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Humanoid Robots Design Arguments and Industry Experience
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Part I of @robobenjie Benjie Holson's double header on humanoid robots. First up, why people think the human form for robots is a good idea (I had an upper torso humanoid robot company for ten years and we subscribed to these pro-arguments and shipped thousands of robots to work
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Rodney Brooks visits Matic Robots and praises their engineering
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Thanks @mehul and @navneetdalal for showing me around your company @maticrobots and sharing your passion for exquisitely well engineered solutions to hard problems using clever mixtures of mechanical design and just enough silicon compute.
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End-to-end learning robotics: Beyond the hype cycle
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End to end learning for robotics is in a bit of a hype cycle but proponents sometimes miss the fact that practical results are not just end to end learning. As UC Berkeley Professor @Ken_Goldberg points out in this clip from a recent talk he gave at Stanford, Good Old Fashioned
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Asteroid Institute Identifies 27,500 New Asteroids Using Reanalyzed Data
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The Asteroid Institute @b612foundation used new computations on old data, collected without consideration for finding asteroids, to identify 27,500 new asteroids.
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Complex Robots and Combat Aircraft History Parallels
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As I look at the rush to build very complex robots using new and unproven learning and control methods I am reminded of the history of combat aircraft. In the first world war competition was intense in aerial combat. Flat screen displays, though indispensable in modern fighter
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Rodney Brooks Mourns Passing of Philosopher Daniel Dennett
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My dear and long time friend Daniel Dennett passed away today. He was a towering figure in philosophy and in particular in the philosophy of AI. Now we have only memories of him. [[And do keep up to date with your correspondence–I have a 30 day old email from him in my inbox