Dr. James Kennedy opens up the 2024 @HRI_Conference
, discussing robots and holographic characters. His 4 tips: design characters (not agents), create coherent and consistent personality, allow for groups, and make people feel heard. #hri2024
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Dr. Kennedy’s Tips for Designing Robot Characters and Holographic Personas
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Self-driving predictions continue to miss their timelines
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So far the timing on every prediction about self-driving being around the corner has turned out to be wrong. See my annual dated predictions and updates at http://
rodneybrooks.com/blog for details. I appreciate this update from @IEEESpectrum
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Join AI Q&A Session: Future Questions with Reporting Expert
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On March 27, come join me to ask all your burning questions about AI and our future, and hear from the frontlines of reporting on this mad story over the last decade
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AI Nationalism Essays Collection Sparks Critical Analysis Discussion
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NEW!!!! This collection of essays on AI Nationalism is so timely, so fresh, so smart. I'm so grateful to be in the @AINowInstitute orbit and work with people brilliantly & consistently pushing a reality-based analysis forward, against the torrent of hype. READ READ READ
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Government AI Risk Report Criticized as Unsubstantiated Policy Prescription
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What? Govs hire consultants daily to write whatever. Often, they produce trash. Here, a v small consultancy wrote a report for USG amplifying discredited X-risk ideologies + prescribing bad policy. AFAICT it's based based on ~5 ppl's hunches? Why're we taking this seriously? https://
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Hugging Face Diffusers: Guide to Image Generation Techniques
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✨ Blog-tastic Tuesdays ✨https://t.co/AYSMGFv4yg
— Satya Mallick (@LearnOpenCV) 12 mars 2024
Our latest research article will guide you through using the Hugging Face Diffusers library to generate images with different techniques. Additionally, you will get access to a notebook with all the experiments discussed in this… pic.twitter.com/2mylHQHeBiBlog-tastic Tuesdays https://
learnopencv.com/hugging-face-d
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… Our latest research article will guide you through using the Hugging Face Diffusers library to generate images with different techniques. Additionally, you will get access to a notebook with all the experiments discussed in this -
Forager: Rapid ML Model Development and Data Exploration
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Fait Poms from Stanford presents her trailblazing work on 'Forager: Rapid Data Exploration and Model Development'. How quickly can an ML practitioner, a graduate student, or an ML engineer train ML models? Find out!
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AI Accelerates Battery Material Discovery for Clean Energy
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Anyone arguing that AI isn't tackling major challenges isn't paying attention. Everyone knows batteries are integral to the clean energy transition but aren't where we need them to be. Now we're seeing serious strides in new battery materials thanks to AI, which narrowed 32
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L’IA et l’avenir des concours éducatifs
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Dans les prochaines années, des modèles de fondations seront capables de passer n'importe quel concours et de les réussir mieux que les meilleurs élèves. L’IA nous pose de grandes questions sur notre système éducatif et sur les moyens d’évaluation. Qu’est-ce qu’apprendre à une
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Testing AI Systems: Evaluating GPT-4V Vision Capabilities
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This is a great illustration of how hard it is to figure out how good AI systems are via testing. GPT-4V solves the famous dog versus muffin image problem… except it doesn’t if the image is changed so it isn’t in the training data… except it does, but only some of the time.