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Melanie Mitchell says the fallacy of dumb superintelligence - where powerful AI is too dumb to take into account the intention and consequences of the goals it's given - means that dangerous superintelligence is not likely
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Why Are They Making Robots Look a Lot Like Us? 🤔
In recent years, the development of robotics has taken a distinctly human-like turn. From Sophia, the robot granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia, to more advanced models like Ameca, capable of displaying a wide array of human emotions, the trend towards humanoid robots is evident. But why are engineers and scientists so keen on making robots resemble humans? Here are several reasons that drive this fascination with human-like robotics
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Digit sorting of laundry with the help of Google Gemini.
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Elon Musk says in order to achieve human-AI symbiosis we will ultimately need to replace our skulls so we can implant enough electrodes to interface our brains with computers
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🚨 Meta Ventures into AI Search to Challenge Google and Microsoft Dominance
In a bold move to diversify its technological offerings and reduce reliance on traditional search giants, Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, has embarked on developing its own AI-powered search engine. This development comes as part of Meta’s broader strategy to compete more directly with tech titans Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft’s Bing in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
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🚨 Introducing X's Groundbreaking AI Supercomputer with 100,000 GPUs
🔴 "X has just launched an unprecedented AI supercomputer, equipped with more than 100,000 GPUs, extensive storage capabilities in exabytes, and incredibly high-speed networking.
🔴 Each computing hall within this facility houses around 25,000 GPUs, along with necessary storage and fiber optic connections, all intricately linked to form a powerhouse of computation.
🔴 The deployment of these advanced, liquid-cooled NVIDIA AI racks by Supermicro marks a new era in AI infrastructure at this magnitude."
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Humanoid robot with human gait
Chinese company EngineAI just unveiled a general-purpose humanoid
Unlike its other brethren, the new humanoid has a more natural gait, similar to that of a human.
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Introducing Torso, a bimanual android actuated with artificial muscles.
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🚨 Aramco's Venture Arm Invests $100 Million in AI
⚙️ In a significant move to enhance its technological portfolio and support the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, Saudi Aramco's venture arm, Wa’ed Ventures, has announced an allocation of $100 million for investments in AI startups. This initiative underscores Saudi Arabia's ambition to become a leading player on the global AI stage.
⚙️ Wa’ed Ventures, the $500 million venture capital arm of the oil behemoth, has been increasingly focusing on AI this year, aligning with the national vision to diversify the economy beyond oil. The fund has already made notable investments, including a $15 million Series B extension into South Korean AI chipmaker Rebellions, and participations in funding rounds for AI platforms like aiXplain and Peter Thiel-backed Tenderd.
⚙️ The decision to invest heavily in AI comes at a time when the Kingdom is pushing to modernize its economy through technological advancement. This move not only aims at fostering innovation within Saudi Arabia but also at positioning the country as a hub for AI development in the Middle East.
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King Frederik of Denmark, in launching Denmark's first AI supercomputer Gefion with Jensen Huang: "I am not the only King in this room. The other one has a leather jacket on."
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🚨 Humane slashes the price of its AI Pin after weak sales
🟦 The AI Pin now starts at $499 instead of $699 — but it doesn’t come with an extra battery or charge case. Humane is dropping the price of the AI Pin by $200 in an attempt to reverse the AI gadget’s very poor sales. The product launched earlier this year at $699, but now, you can buy one starting at $499. This $499 version is the “eclipse” model that is a matte black anodized aluminum, and it doesn’t come with an extra battery or the charge case. The latter makes some sense given that the company warned AI Pin owners not to use the charge car because it found some battery cells from a vendor “may pose a fire safety risk.”
🟦 You can still buy an extra battery separately for $69. And even though you can buy an AI Pin for a lower price, the gadget still requires a $24 per month wireless subscription.
The AI Pin launched this year to very poor reviews. In the time since, Humane has released updates to the device’s CosmOS software to add missing features like timers. The AI Pin has seriously struggled to gain traction; for a few months this year, daily returns had outpaced sales, my colleague Kylie Robinson reported this semester. Humane’s store also lists the white and black AI Pin models with polished aluminum (technically, “lunar” and “equinox”). Each is available for $799 as part of a “complete system” (though both are currently sold out) that comes with an extra battery pack and the charging case.
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China has an automated cruise missile factory that can produce over 1000 missiles a day working in 3 shifts according to CCTV Chinese media.
China's large military industrial capacity is likely to sustain a war effort for much longer than its adversaries.
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🚨 Siri’s big ChatGPT upgrade is here — for better and worse
🟦 The iOS 18.2 developer beta puts ChatGPT access right inside the operating system. Apple Intelligence’s official launch is less than a week away, but it’s the next wave of AI updates that will start to make Siri a lot more useful. The forthcoming iOS 18.2 update — now available as a developer beta — starts to make your phone a lot smarter with the addition if Visual Intelligence and the ability to pass Siri requests along to ChatGPT. On phones that support Apple Intelligence, Siri won’t just be a “let me Google that for you” machine; now it’s a “let me ChatGPT that for you” machine, with all that entails: good, bad, and everything in between.
🟦 By default, Siri will ask for confirmation every time it wants to pass on a request to ChatGPT. This makes a lot of sense, and I thought I’d prefer that behavior. But after an afternoon using it, I realized I just wanted to get to the ChatGPT answer faster and turned it off. Siri still handles basic questions on its own and doesn’t pass things like “When is the US election?” to ChatGPT, thankfully. And it will still just Google something for you when that’s the best way to get to your answer. But more complex stuff goes to ChatGPT, which means Siri can handle a lot more stuff than I’m used to throwing at it. Ask it “What are some cocktails I can make with whiskey and lemon juice?” and you’ll get a short list of options with descriptions. Old Siri will basically just show you a Google search snippet.
🟦 AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini regularly get things wrong and make things up. But I’ve started using them more and more as a starting point when I need help with something and I’m basically clueless. I actually downloaded Gemini (by way of Google’s iOS app) to the iPhone 16 I’ve been using because I got tired of opening it in a browser. As long as you don’t blindly trust what the AI tells you, it’s a handy way to get pointed in the right direction. Apple has put some nice privacy protections around your use of ChatGPT. OpenAI is “required to process your request solely for the purpose of fulfilling it and does not store your request or any responses it provides,” Apple states. The information won’t be used to train AI models, either. If you sign in to your OpenAI account, your requests are saved in your ChatGPT history and all of OpenAI’s terms apply. But you don’t need an OpenAI account at all if you don’t want or have one. I appreciate that.
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This is how Elon Musk's new Tesla robotaxi charges
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The White House has tasked the departments of Defense, Health, Energy and others with preparing for an AI-enabled age of biological and chemical warfare
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JUST IN: OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search, a competitor to Google.
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🚨Gmail will now help you write an email on the web with AI
🟦Google is also adding a shortcut to help you quickly refine drafts on mobile and the web.
🟦Google is expanding “Help me write” to Gmail on the web, allowing users to whip up or tweak emails using Gemini AI. Just like on mobile, users will see a prompt to use the feature when opening a blank draft in Gmail.
🟦Google’s “Help me write” feature is only available to users who subscribe to Google One AI Premium or have the Gemini add-on for Workspace. In addition to generating an email draft, “Help me write” can also provide suggestions on how to formalize, elaborate, or shorten a message.
🟦Google is also adding a shortcut for the “polish” option available within its “Help me write” toolset, which will appear on drafts with over 12 words. For Gmail on the web, users can click the shortcut or type Ctrl + H to quickly refine an email.
On mobile, the option will replace the existing “Refine my draft” shortcut. Instead of swiping to see options to polish, formalize, elaborate, or shorten an email, the app will automatically refine the message when the “polish” shortcut is swiped. Users can then tweak the message further with Google’s other AI editing tools.
🟦Google will gradually roll out “Help me write” on the web, along with its new “polish” shortcut starting today.
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Apple will pay up to $1M to anyone that can hack into their AI servers
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Elon Musk says at high volume, Neuralink should approach the cost of an Apple watch or phone and be implanted by a robot in a 10-minute surgery
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🚨 UK Man Sentenced to 18 Years for Creating AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Images
🔴 In a landmark case highlighting the dark side of artificial intelligence technology, a 27-year-old man from Bolton, identified as Hugh Nelson, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for using AI to create and distribute child sexual abuse material (CSAM). This conviction marks the first of its kind in the UK, setting a precedent for how the law addresses digital offenses involving AI.
🔴 Nelson, described by the court as posing the “highest category of risk” to public safety, utilized AI tools to manipulate photographs of real children, transforming innocent images into explicit content. The images were then distributed and sold online, with Nelson admitting to creating content that ranged from “beatings” to “necro,” showcasing the depth of depravity facilitated by AI technology.
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🚨 A 9th grader from Snellville, Georgia, has won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, after inventing a handheld device designed to detect pesticide residues on produce.
🔴 Sirish Subash set himself apart with his AI-based sensor to win the grand prize of $25,000 cash and the prestigious title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.”
🔴 Like most inventors, Sirish was intrigued with curiosity and a simple question. His mother always insisted that he wash the fruit before eating it, and the boy wondered if the preventative action actually did any good.
🔴 He learned that 70% of produce items contain pesticide residues that are linked to possible health problems like cancer and Alzheimer’s—and washing only removes part of the contamination.
🔴 “If we could detect them, we could avoid consuming them, and reduce the risk of those health issues.”
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Google DeepMind's Tim Rocktäschel says we now have all the ingredients to build open-ended self-improving AI systems that can enhance themselves by way of technological evolution
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HeyGen 3.0 dropped new AI avatars that look real.
The viseme morphing appears slightly slow, but 99% of people won’t notice its AI-generated content.
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Yann LeCun predicts animal-level AI in 5-7 years and human-level AI within a decade, but it could take longer because "there is a probability for things to be much harder than we think"
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🚨Google plans to announce its next Gemini model soon
🟦December is set to be a competitive month for AI announcements, with OpenAI and Google both planning to unveil their next major models—OpenAI's successor to GPT-4 and Google's Gemini 2.0. While OpenAI's rollout will be phased, starting with business partners, Google aims for a wider release. However, there are concerns about Gemini 2.0's performance not meeting expectations. Other companies like xAI, Meta, and Anthropic are also in the race to introduce their latest models, reflecting
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🚨 Google open-sourced its watermarking tool for AI-generated text
🟦 Developers can now use Google’s SynthID text watermarking tool to detect whether text outputs have come from their own models. Google’s SynthID text watermarking technology, a tool the company created to make AI-generated text easier to identify, is now available open-source through the Google Responsible Generative AI Toolkit, the company announced on X. “Now, other [generative] AI developers will be able to use this technology to help them detect whether text outputs have come from their own [large language models], making it easier for more developers to build AI responsibly,” Pushmeet Kohli, the vice president of research at Google DeepMind, told MIT Technology Review.
🟦 Google claims the system, which it’s already integrated into its Gemini chatbot, doesn’t compromise the quality, accuracy, creativity, or speed of generated text, which has long been an issue with watermarking systems. Google says it can work on text as short as three sentences, as well as text that’s been cropped, paraphrased, or modified. But it struggles with short text, content that’s been rewritten or translated, and even responses to factual questions. “SynthID isn’t a silver bullet for identifying AI generated content,” Google wrote in a blog post in May.“[But it] is an important building block for developing more reliable AI identification tools and can help millions of people make informed decisions about how they interact with AI-generated content.”
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🚨 Apple’s first iOS 18.2 beta adds more AI features and ChatGPT integration
🟦 The latest developer update opens access to Apple’s image generation tools, ‘Visual Intelligence’ that searches from the camera, and Genmoji. Apple is now letting developers try more Apple Intelligence features. The company has released the first developer beta of iOS 18.2, and it adds tools like the ability to generate emoji with Genmoji and images with Image Playground, more AI-powered writing features, integration with ChatGPT, Visual Intelligence to search with your camera on iPhone 16 phones, and more, according to 9to5Mac. With this beta, Apple Intelligence is now supported in more regions, too.
🟦 iOS 18.2 will bring the second batch of Apple Intelligence features to users. The first batch, including features like a slightly smarter Siri and notification summaries, is set to launch next week with the official release of iOS 18.1. Apple debuted its planned Apple Intelligence features at WWDC 2024 in June, but at the time, it announced that the upgrades would be arriving in stages. One of the most impressive planned features is for Siri to understand what’s happening on your iPhone’s screen and take actions based on your requests, but that’s still not here, even in iOS 18.2. Apple has also released the first macOS Sequoia 15.2 developer beta with new Apple Intelligence tools as well, 9to5Mac reports. Genmoji apparently isn’t included in that beta.
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🚨 Why AI companies are dropping the doomerism
🟦 The latest AI manifesto, from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, says a lot about the industry’s current moment. On today’s episode of Decoder, we’re going to try and figure out “digital god.” I figured we’ve been doing this long enough, let’s just get after it. Can we build an artificial intelligence so powerful that it changes the world and answers all of our questions? The AI industry has decided the answer is yes. In September, OpenAI’s Sam Altman published a blog post claiming we’ll have superintelligent AI in “a few thousand days.” And earlier this month, Dario Amodei, the CEO of OpenAI competitor Anthropic, published a 14,000-word post laying out what exactly he thinks such a system will be capable of when it arrives, which he says could be as soon as 2026.
🟦 What’s fascinating is that the visions laid out in both posts are so similar — they both promise dramatic superintelligent AI that will bring massive improvements to work, to science and healthcare, and even to democracy and prosperity. Digital god, baby. But while the visions are similar, the companies are, in many ways, openly opposed: Anthropic is the original OpenAI defection story. Dario and a cohort of fellow researchers left OpenAI in 2021 after becoming concerned with its increasingly commercial direction and approach to safety, and they created Anthropic to be a safer, slower AI company. And the emphasis was really on safety until recently; just last year, a major New York Times profile of the company called it the “white-hot center of A.I. doomerism.”
🟦 But the launch of ChatGPT, and the generative AI boom that followed, kicked off a colossal tech arms race, and now, Anthropic is as much in the game as anyone. It’s taken in billions in funding, mostly from Amazon, and built Claude, a chatbot and language model to rival OpenAI’s GPT-4. Now, Dario is writing long blog posts about spreading democracy with AI. So what’s going on here? Why is the head of Anthropic suddenly talking so optimistically about AI, when he was previously known for being the safer, slower alternative to the progress-at-all-costs OpenAI? Is this just more AI hype to court investors? And if AGI is really around the corner, how are we even measuring what it means for it to be safe? To break it all down, I brought on Verge senior AI reporter Kylie Robison to discuss what it means, what’s going on in the industry, and whether we can trust these AI leaders to tell us what they really think.
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Humanoid Long Jump.
The G1 humanoid from Unitree Robotics has completed a long jump of 1.4 meters - possibly the longest jump ever achieved by a humanoid robot of its size in the world, standing only 1.32 meters tall.
The G1 has up to 43 joint motors and a dexterous three-fingered hand, designed for precise manipulation and AI research.
Priced from $16,000, it features robust Sim2Real capabilities, making it a compelling choice for robotics developers.
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