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Enhanced 3D vision helped a four-legged robot navigate bumpy terrain
Posted on 3 July, 2023 by benyamin chahkandi
Summary: A novel model has been created by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, that teaches four-legged robots to see in three dimensions more clearly. The development made it possible for a robot to easily and autonomously navigate difficult terrain, including rocky ground, stairways, and paths with gaps.
The scientists will present their findings at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), which will be held in Vancouver, Canada, from June...
AI discovers flora's hidden characteristics to aid save species
Posted on 4 July, 2023 by benyamin chahkandi
Summary:To research and mitigate the effects of climate change on flora, scientists from UNSW and the Sydney Botanic Gardens have trained AI to access data from millions of plant specimens maintained in herbaria around the world.
Associate Professor Will Cornwell, the study's principal author, adds that herbarium collections are incredible "time capsules of plant specimens." It's no longer feasible to go through items manually because the National Herbarium of New South Wales alone...
Psychologists have shown that GPT-3 has the same level of reasoning ability as a college student
Posted on 4 August, 2023 by Charlotte Lee
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Standardised test-like logic problems were no match for the artificial intelligence language model GPT-3, which performed as well as college students. The experiment's authors argue that their findings raise the question of whether the technology is emulating human thinking or employing a novel cognitive mechanism. To get an answer, you'd need to go inside the code that powers GPT-3 and other AI programmes.
UCLA psychologists have shown that the AI language model GPT-3...
Will AI Really Kill Us All? The Science Behind the Hype
Posted on 27 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
Concerns that artificial intelligence might kill us all are blowing up right now following warnings from researchers and leaders at some of the world’s foremost AI companies. Speculation is rife over how legislators will act. Here’s what the fears are, who is expressing them, and what might happen next.
How Did the Latest Fears About AI Begin?
The latest wave of AI existential anxiety kicked off on 8 September, when researcher Jacob Coxon told the Wall Street Journal that he was...
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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 16 October.
- Portland Maine burned by British.
- Washington takes Yorktown
- Marie Antoinette beheaded in France.
- Dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
- British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras.
- John Brown leads group of 20 in a raid on Harper's Ferry Va.
- Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
- Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
- Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (Bkln)
- Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin -- only mid-game coaching change in NFL history.
- Disney Co founded
- Gordo (by Gus Arriola) 1st appeared in newspapers
- Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system.
- 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials.
- Woolworth's at Powell & Market (S.F.) opens.
- Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip arrive in Virginia
- Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
- Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 3 in the world series
- Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia
- China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
- Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
- Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in S.F.
- Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
- Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
- Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II.
- Israel's General Moshe Dayan dies at 66
- Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
- Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins
- Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel
- Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu named Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
- Armand Hammer arrives back in US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
- 175-kph winds cause blackout in London much of southern England.
- 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hours after she fell 22 feet into a well shaft in Midland TX.