Robots & AI

AIs that generate answers to user queries could transform search, but only if someone can get the tech and the business model right.

Silicon Valley is warming to the Department of Defense as it works to get new AI systems developed and deployed en masse.

Life expectancy gains in developed countries have slowed in recent decades, but AI may be poised to transform medicine as we know it.

Ray Kurzweil

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

“Making stuff up” and “being creative” may be two sides of the same coin — but you have to be able to tell the difference.

Sascha Brodsky

Who is responsible for copyright violations when they're produced by generative AI? The technology is outpacing the law.

Anjana Susarla

How vulnerable is the electrical grid to a malicious attacker who destroys select substations? Google's Deep Mind can help predict the answer.

John Edward McCarthy

We’re finally starting to see what can happen when we put an advanced AI “brain” in a state-of-the-art robot “body” — and it’s remarkable.

An AI that can predict how to improve the taste of a beer could help brewers develop the next beloved brew.

LimX Dynamics’s bipedal robot, P1, can keep its footing, even when traversing rough terrain unlike any it’s seen before.

The fast-growing coaching industry is being disrupted by generative AI, which excels at “performance coaching.”

Martin SFP Bryant

A new tool for designing antibodies relies on the same kind of tech underpinning DALL-E and other image-generating AIs.

German automaker Mercedes-Benz is deploying Apptronik’s Apollo robots at a manufacturing plant in Hungary.

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