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.

Everything you need to know about the humanoids that will soon enter the workforce — or are in it already.

Knowledge-based workers already need to skill-up to coexist with sophisticated artificial intelligence technologies.

Juliana Guaqueta Ospina | Education Specialist | International Finance Corporation | World Economic Forum

A partnership between Moderna and OpenAI provides a real-world example of what can happen when a company leans into generative AI.

OpenAI’s most powerful AI model, GPT-4, outperformed junior doctors in deciding how to treat patients with eye problems.

An AI fighter pilot faced off against a human pilot in a “dogfight” using actual planes — a huge milestone in military automation.

AI music generators — AIs that create new music based on users’ text prompts — are lowering the bar for music creation, for better or worse.

Meta has upgraded its AI assistant, Meta AI, with a new LLM (Llama 3) and made it available in far more places.

A day after retiring its hydraulic Atlas robot, Boston Dynamics released a video debuting its all-electric, workplace-ready replacement.

Since AI is chained to linear reasoning, workplaces that embrace it will do well to have neurodivergent colleagues who reason more creatively.

Maureen Dunne

Microsoft is reportedly planning to build a $100 billion data center and supercomputer, called "Stargate," for OpenAI.

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