Robots & AI

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.

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

Open-source AIs and commercial hardware may be enough to build domestic robots that can take over our chores.

OpenAI is reportedly developing “AI agents,” software that can perform tasks on people’s devices upon request.

Google's new text-to-video model, Lumiere, promises a new architecture that will make video AI models more modern and powerful.

Google just made its most capable generative AI — Gemini Ultra — available to the public, while killing the “Bard” brand.

AI scholars look ahead to 2024 and describe the issues developers, regulators, and everyday people are likely to face.

Casey Fiesler and Anjana Susarla and Kentaro Toyama

Microsoft and OpenAI reportedly plan to invest $100 million into Figure, a startup developing a humanoid robot for the workplace.

About a third of people are lonely. Three scholars consider whether AI can help, or if it'll just make things worse.

Kelly-Ann Allen and Joseph Crawford and Michael Cowling

A new AI detection tool that measure how "surprising" text is reportedly delivers far fewer false positives than existing options.

A new study suggests that AlphaFold, DeepMind’s AI tool for predicting protein structures, could be useful for drug discovery after all.

General purpose robots developed by robotics startup Figure are going to be deployed at a BMW Manufacturing plant.

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