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Sam shares ideas about Strong AI, 4E (Embodied, Ecological/Embedded, Extended and Enactive) cognition, cognitive architectures, interfaces, robots, cyborgs and philosophy of mind.
MetaDevo AI Blog
3w ago
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
MetaDevo AI Blog
2M ago
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
MetaDevo AI Blog
2M ago
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
MetaDevo AI Blog
3M ago
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
MetaDevo AI Blog
4M ago
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
MetaDevo AI Blog
6M ago
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
MetaDevo AI Blog
7M ago
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
MetaDevo AI Blog
7M ago
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
MetaDevo AI Blog
8M ago
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
MetaDevo AI Blog
8M ago
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