Toyota Research Institute’s robots leave home “I think I’m probably just as guilty as everybody else,” Toyota Research Institute’s (TRI) senior vice president of robotics, Max Bajracharya, admits. “It’s like, now our…
Category: Robotics & AI
Most sites claiming to catch AI-written text fail spectacularly
Most sites claiming to catch AI-written text fail spectacularly As the fervor around generative AI grows, critics have called on the creators of the tech to take steps to mitigate its potentially…
Autonomation
Autonomation “Jidoka” is a new one to me. TRI (Toyota Research Institute) CEO Gill Pratt described the concept as “Automation with a Human Touch.” The anglicized version of the notion is “Autonomation”…
Microsoft says Bing can be provoked to respond outside of its ‘designed tone’
Microsoft says Bing can be provoked to respond outside of its ‘designed tone’ Microsoft has acknowledged reports of Bing’s strange responses to some queries over the past week since the launch of…
Consumers find chatbots disappointing, but that won’t harm adoption
Consumers find chatbots disappointing, but that won’t harm adoption A lot’s changed since Tay. The advent of AI tech like ChatGPT dramatically improved the chatbot experience, showing that chatbots aren’t necessarily destined…
South Korea boosts its AI chip industry with $642M amid ChatGPT frenzy
South Korea boosts its AI chip industry with $642M amid ChatGPT frenzy South Korea hopes to be a key player in fulfilling the new global demand for next-generation AI chips, and today…
German startup Kern AI nabs seed funding for modular NLP development platform
German startup Kern AI nabs seed funding for modular NLP development platform Natural language processing (NLP), while hardly a new discipline, has catapulted into the public consciousness these past few months thanks…
VivaCity raises at $42M valuation to make US cities safer, starting with New York
VivaCity raises at $42M valuation to make US cities safer, starting with New York Around 39,000 people were killed in motor vehicle incidents in the USA in 2020 — and 6,200 of…
Bing around and find out
Bing around and find out Microsoft’s new and improved Bing, powered by a custom version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has experienced a dizzyingly quick reversal: from “next big thing” to “brand-sinking albatross” in…
You.com takes aim at Google and Microsoft with multimodal chat search
You.com takes aim at Google and Microsoft with multimodal chat search You.com founder Richard Socher knows that his company has always been a David going after the Goliath in search, Google, and…