pet-like robots that touch - jetpack cognition lab

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wait. somewhere in between rn.

@rodneyabrooks less surprising means more likely. ET > AGI. aliens more likely than AI taking over the world. agi is ill-defined, @x7557x reposted something about that today. @rodneyabrooks are you on mastodon? thanks.

Europa Clipper, launching Oct 2024, reaches Europa (Jupiter) in 2030, *may* be able to detect life if life is there. Should it do so I will find it much less surprising than if we have AGI by then despite what NVIDIA CEO might predict. Same for 2040, 2050, or any 20xx. space.com/europa-clipper…

flatcat going to "maerzmusik", contemporary music festival @radialsystem #berlinevents onstage Audrey Chen @HugoEsquinca @x7557x @qbernetik

flatcat going to "hi ai", ai congress for everyone, hosted by konrad adenauer stiftung at kosmos #berlinevents onstage Katja Scherer and @petersarlin @silo_AI @KASonline @x7557x @qbernetik

@audrow flatcat

What exciting robotics news have you seen this week? 👀

@julesnerdylife thanks! WIP

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In short, the machines failed to save labor. technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/106… @techreview

Beautifully restless robot. | uunroo at pandora art gallery berlin youtube.com/watch?v=w58MMe…

Whiskers vs. Wires: When Paws meet purrfect Meowchinery. | flatcat youtube.com/watch?v=VVxxTe…

Beats all your toys 1-on-1-arena, new video, Bakiwi limited quantities available now youtube.com/watch?v=fqAW4D…

@msminirobot awesome, congrats and enjoy the moment

hi all, the x is spooking me out and really too much, so I will finally quit the platform. accounts will be left open fttb, I will check for DMs once in a while, but there won't be any new content. goes for @x7557x @farmersmanual_ @LabJetpack @tsxone1 see you on the other side

Moving fast and breaking things. The long tail is not solved by learning, fire chief not happy with humanless vehicles in SF latimes.com/business/story…

@ylecun @x7557x

In this interview with Le Monde, Yoshua Bengio expresses his fears of some catastrophe scenarios that could be enabled by progress in AI. One such scenario he is worried about is a flood of disinformation and political propaganda on social networks. He says that we have a "moral imperative" to act to prevent the erosion of democracy due to disinformation. But here is the thing: that scenario has been happening for years and effective countermeasures have been implemented. Social networks (Facebook and Instagram in particular) have implemented countermeasures against attempts to corrupt the democratic process since at least 2017. countermeasures against bots and fake accounts, misrepresentation of identity, spam, hate speech, bullying, child exploitation, terrorist propaganda, violent content, and misinformation that endangers public safety, have been in place for years. And the most paradoxical thing: AI is part of the solution here, not part of the problem! It is because of progress in natural language understanding in multiple languages (due to self-supervised transformers) that, for example, hate speech can be detected and taken down in hundreds of languages. Meta has a large organization called Integrity that is entirely devoted to security and content moderation. They make massive use of AI. They publish a quarterly report on what they do: transparency.fb.com/data/community… For example, the number of fake accounts taken down every quarter oscillates between 400 million and 1.5 billion. The prevalence of hate speech is somewhere between 0.01% and 0.02% of all content. 82% of hate speech is taken down automatically by AI before anyone sees it. Text generation models, such auto-regressive LLMs may help with producing more "fake" content. But the bottleneck of disinformation is *not* in the production (e.g. QAnon is two guys). There are two bottlenecks: passing through the content moderation systems of dissemination media such as social networks and capturing the limited attention the public has. LLMs do not help with any of that. If bad actors attempt to use AI to flood Facebook with misinformation, it will be the bad guys' AI against the good guys' AI. lemonde.fr/international/…

future, the place we all want go world's obsession with chatgpt is playing our cards (embodied AI) as @x7557x and @qbernetik have posted before, the ROI went a bit further into future. is good. while we are selling flatcats, another exemplar leaves her box and locomotes

@Kickstarter Special thanks to all our supporters and backers, incl @rakso2 @__tosh @zzkt @JulesNerdylife @sanscul0tte @qbernetik @x7557x

Here she goes in the mail, last flatcat no. 22 🐛 from the 2021 @Kickstarter batch. Update pending on the platform, but with this we finished our third crowdfunding campaign ✨

This kept me thinking. I usually enjoy risky projects because when you aim high, you go beyond expectations. We sometimes fail, yes, though we usually find a way to solve challenges that come up. However, for some PhD students / postdocs "risk" translates to little pub output

We have an update for our #flatcat campaign on @Kickstarter. Thanks for your support. 🙌 🐛 brand new! switch replaced kickstarter.com/projects/bakiw…