It is interesting how robots are coming back. Nvidia recently announced an investment in robotic startup Field, valued at $2 billion and revenue-positive. Another one, Skid, has raised money from SoftBank at a valuation of $4 billion, while Physical Intelligence raised half of that and released its first model Pi-Zero. AI seems to be going…
Keeping up the momentum of the 2023 Bletchley Park and 2024 Seoul AI Safety talks, global leaders have gathered at this year’s AI Action Summit in Paris to forge a consensus on the regulation and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) for the common good. The agenda of this huddle focuses on public-service AI, the future…
Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” There have always been a few people who have used technology for nefarious activities. So, with the invention of AI, it is natural that there will be some people who will use it for causing harm to humanity. Deepmind…
Google AI company DeepMind has produced a robot capable of playing table tennis at a near-professional level. The unusual discovery was made during a recent research venture that saw the AI-driven entity successfully take on several skilled human opponents before going down to some advanced players. The DeepMind robot played competitive matches against table tennis…
