Robots & AI

Alphabet-backed Waymo is leading the robotaxi revolution, but Tesla’s new Cybercab could change everything.

AI chatbots may have certain advantages when roleplaying as our friends. They may also come with downsides that make our loneliness worse.

Flexport is using generative AI to read documents, talk to truckers, and create a “knowledge agent” that’s an expert in shipping.

AI systems assume humans are always certain. Teaching them to anticipate and understand uncertainty may help them reduce human error.

New AI tools are increasingly part of creative production, and are scoring surprisingly high in creative thinking tests.

Erik Guzik

Large language models have been trained on massive amounts of “natural” human language — just like us. Does this make the robots part human?

Brendan H. O’Connor

OpenAI is rolling out new features that let subscribers talk to ChatGPT and show it pictures, enabling more intuitive interactions.

AI-based weather forecasting models developed by Google, Nvidia, and Huawei accurately predicted where Hurricane Lee would make landfall.

A new text-to-speech system developed by Microsoft and MIT was used to create nearly 5,000 audiobooks for Project Gutenberg.

Toyota is using a generative AI-based method to teach robots to peel veggies, prepare snacks, and perform other dexterous tasks.

The University of Texas at San Antonio has launched what it says is the US’s first dual degree in medicine and AI.

AV startup Wayve has given its self-driving cars the ability to explain their decisions in conversational language.

Engineers have combined the AI model powering ChatGPT with a humanoid bust to create a robot receptionist for the UK National Robotarium.

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