AI, Robotics, CogSci, Tech & More AI Discovery of a structural class of antibiotics with explainable deep learning Brain-Inspired AI Code Library Notches Milestone Spyx: A Library for Just-In-Time Compiled Optimization of Spiking Neural Networks The emperor has few clothes: a realistic appraisal of current AI in radiology Rod Brooks on his “Will Robots Rise Up And Demand Their Rights?” piece from 2000 Korean researchers power-shame Nvidia with new neural AI chip Buffer Overflow in Mixture of Experts Google extracted ChatGPT’s Training Data using a silly trick Generative UI and Outcome-Orie ..read more

AI, Robotics, CogSci, Tech & More AI Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article Sora, etc.—Are we “rapidly approaching the top of generative AI’s S-curve?“ Neural network training makes beautiful fractals New chip opens door to AI computing at light speed Chip race: Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Nvidia battle it out for AI chip supremacy Avoiding fusion plasma tearing instability with deep reinforcement learning How satellites, algorithms and AI can help map and trace methane sources Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot ..read more

AI, Robotics, CogSci, Tech & More AI New GitHub Copilot Research Finds ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’ VisualWebArena: Evaluating Multimodal Agents on Realistic Visual Web Tasks RAPTOR: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval Strengthening LLM Trust Boundaries: A Survey of Prompt Injection Attacks FCC Makes AI-Generated Voices In Robocalls Illegal Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI Horse rides Astronaut, redux GenAI image prompted by me (inspired by Gary Marcus’s essay) Robotics Robotic Tongue Licks Gecko Gripper Clean Autono ..read more

The Amazing Cockroach, Biomimetic Robots and Cyborg Bugs in Recent Years Although some might squirm at the notion—or the ethics—insects are very mobile and adaptable to all kinds of environments. Terrestrial insect-machine hybrid robots have long been discussed as alternatives to artificial centimetre-scale mobile robots. These hybrid robots can possess various functionalities (e.g., localization, object detection) by embedding electronic devices while also benefitting from the insects’ robust mobility.1 And some bugs, like cockroaches, are extremely good at survival. For instance, the cock ..read more

AI, Robotics, CogSci & More AI Three Things That LLMs Have Made Us Rethink – Rodney Brooks The real research behind the wild rumors about OpenAI’s Q* project Revolutionizing Design: The Power Of Generative AI Creative Robot Tool Use with Large Language Models Introducing Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant Robotics GenAI image prompted by me Squid-Inspired Powerful Untethered Soft Pumps via Magnetically Induced Phase Transitions Humanoids and yet more humanoids Robots at your doorstep: acceptance of near-future technologies for automated parcel delivery Magnetic Liquid Metal Dr ..read more

AI, Robotics, CogSci & More AI The Church of AGI Here’s Why People Will Never Care About AI Risk: It is an irrational fear but people are afraid of stupider things Generative AI is Boring GTA 6 publisher CEO doubts AI generation tools will make games more profitable or cheaper: But they will make competition “more intense” for developers who don’t have them AGI: PERCEPTION-CONCEPT GAP What is retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)? Elon Musk releases screenshots of x.AI ‘Grok’, which has realtime access to X Pre-Trained Large Language Models for Industrial Control [from 2014] Why robots ..read more

AI, CogSci, Health, Materials & More AI GenAI image by Cheesimus Prime ‘Game of Thrones’ creator and other authors sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for copyright infringement Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns Inherent weaknesses? “a language model cannot efficiently manipulate knowledge from pre-training data, even when such knowledge is perfectly stored and fully extractable in the models, and despite adequate instruct fine-tuning.” Does GPT-4 have theory of mind (ToM) capacity? Transcript: “Understanding AI and its implications” (Ben Mill ..read more

AI, CogSci, Health & More AI & Robotics Pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain MindAgent: Emergent Gaming Interaction Language Modeling Is Compression The Physical Process That Powers a New Type of Generative AI Dexterous Robotic Hands Part 1: Unraveling the History, Technology, and Applications See Chipotle’s new robots that can crank out nearly 200 burrito bowls an hour Recognition of Human Chef’s Intentions for Incremental Learning of Cookbook by Robotic Salad Chef Cognitive Science Theory of collective mind I’m so sorry for psychology’s loss, whatever it i ..read more

Designing Artificial Organisms I’m going to discuss context-form relationships of organisms. Why? Well to glean insight into designing artificial organisms, of course. Yes, artificial organisms. With synthetic minds. Is this more AI stuff, you might ask? Sure it could be AI, but not “AI” as in ML (Machine Learning) as AI has come to be redefined in the past two decades. The stuff I’m talking about here could very useful for a cognitive architecture approach to AI or AGI. Is this useful for robotics? It could be. More immediately, robots could be useful to this type of research as could simulat ..read more

AI, Robotics, Aliens & More AI & Robotics Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness Consciousness and the Overton Window of Science, Part II Helping computer vision and language models understand what they see Numenta comes out of stealth mode with NuPIC AI product Magnetic robots walk, crawl, and swim Video SEO in the Age of AI A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply Thin Flexible Sensor Characterizes High-Speed Airflows on Curved Su ..read more