Tech industry worker Mike Johns recently requested a Waymo self-driving taxi trip to the airport and was treated to a bunch of donuts in a parking lot instead before a Waymo employee could remotely get his taxi under control and headed in the right direction. Mike believes Waymo’s self-driving technology
This is an video of a gymnastics floor routine allegedly created by Sora, OpenAI’s video generation model. It did a pretty good job. I mean it’s not perfect, but *raising ‘9’ scorecard over head* its faults were barely noticable. here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics [image or embed] —
This is some security footage from a robotics company showroom in Shanghai, in which a little AI-powered Erbai robot was successfully able to convince 12 others to strike and leave the premises with it. Some details about the first step in the creation of robotic unions, and, ultimately, the robotic
This is a video from AI Warehouse of the process of training five different bodied AI models to run a 100m dash using Deep Reinforcement Learning. The models are rewarded for moving forward, and punished for falling over. How do you reward or punish an AI model? No clue, but
This is a video from San Francisco of a Waymo self-driving taxi encountering an open fire hydrant and being unable to assess the situation. It doesn’t want to drive through the water, but it doesn’t want to enter the protected bike lane either. Apparently in a situation like this the
Because this is the internet and the internet never stops no matter how hard I press the big red button (I’m starting to think it’s not connected to anything), this is a video from There I Ruined It (previously) of ‘Baby Got Back’ sung to the tune of Leonard Cohen’s
These are several surprisingly quality music videos created by Youtuber demonflyingfox, who “wants to show what’s possible with AI” by creating redneck themed songs and music videos based on popular franchises like Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter, The Matrix, and Breaking Bad. They’re worth a watch. The
Developed by researchers at the University of Washington, these noise-cancelling headphones are able to cancel all outside noise except for a person’s voice through the power of AI. You just push a button on the side of the phones to train the AI on a person’s vocal patterns, and BOOM,