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Mar 14, 2023
Spy robot investigates the enemy and then melts into an oily puddle
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: robotics/AI
A robot that dissolves into a puddle after exposing itself to heat and UV light could one day be used to securely gather intelligence and then destroy itself before it falls into the wrong hands.
Mar 14, 2023
Superhuman artificial intelligence can improve human decision-making
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: robotics/AI
How will superhuman artificial intelligence (AI) affect human decision-making? And what will be the mechanisms behind this effect? We address these questions in a domain where AI already exceeds human performance, analyzing more than 5.8 million move decisions made by professional Go players over the past 71 y (1950 to 2021). To address the first question, we use a superhuman AI program to estimate the quality of human decisions across time, generating 58 billion counterfactual game patterns and comparing the win rates of actual human decisions with those of counterfactual AI decisions. We find that humans began to make significantly better decisions following the advent of superhuman AI. We then examine human players’ strategies across time and find that novel decisions (i.e., previously unobserved moves) occurred more frequently and became associated with higher decision quality after the advent of superhuman AI. Our findings suggest that the development of superhuman AI programs may have prompted human players to break away from traditional strategies and induced them to explore novel moves, which in turn may have improved their decision-making.
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Mar 14, 2023
Synaptic Wiring Map for Whole Insect Brain Completed
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: robotics/AI
The fruit fly larva connectome showed circuit features that were strikingly reminiscent of prominent and powerful machine learning architectures. “Some of the architectural features observed in the Drosophila larval brain, including multilayer shortcuts and prominent nested recurrent loops, are found in state-of-the-art artificial neural networks, where they can compensate for a lack of network depth and support arbitrary, task-dependent computations,” they wrote. The team expects continued study will reveal even more computational principles and potentially inspire new artificial intelligence systems. “What we learned about code for fruit flies will have implications for the code for humans,” Vogelstein said. “That’s what we want to understand—how to write a program that leads to a human brain network.”
Mar 14, 2023
AI-generated videos may be the next big thing as Microsoft confirms GPT-4 reveal
Posted by Daniel Sunday in category: robotics/AI
While attending an event called AI in Focus — Digital Kickoff, Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft Germany, Andreas Braun, spoke about GPT-4 and its upcoming unveiling (via Heise). According to Braun, the next iteration of GPT will be shown off next week and it will allow users to create new types of AI-generated content.
We will introduce GPT-4 next week, where we have multimodal models that will offer completely different possibilities – for example, videos.
Mar 14, 2023
Forget AI, organoid intelligence could take computing to the next level
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
A new concept called organoid intelligence, with the aim of developing a new generation of biocomputers, has recently been detailed by a group of researchers. They want to harness advances in the reproduction of human brain cells in vitro to offer superior intelligence to the computers and smart devices of the future. This technology promises to be much more powerful and efficient than any form of artificial intelligence as we know it.
This notion of organoid intelligence is described in a paper outlining a roadmap to developing this technology published in the journal Frontiers of Science, by numerous scientists, mainly from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. According to them, work on cerebral organoids, derived from human stem cells, should make it possible in the relatively near future to reproduce entities endowed with memory and a genuine capacity for learning. Organoids are miniature organs grown in vitro. The term organoid intelligence (OI) encompasses all these developments, leading to a form of biological computing — or biocomputing — that leverages neurons bred in a lab. All of which is enough to make the likes of ChatGPT seem outdated already.
Complex interfaces could eventually be networked, with brain organoids connected to sensory organoids such as retinal organoids. This could, for example, lead to new therapeutic applications.
Mar 14, 2023
An AI Learned to Play Atari 6,000 Times Faster
Posted by Ken Otwell in categories: information science, robotics/AI
We don’t learn by brute force repetition. AI shouldn’t either.
Despite impressive progress, today’s AI models are very inefficient learners, taking huge amounts of time and data to solve problems humans pick up almost instantaneously. A new approach could drastically speed things up by getting AI to read instruction manuals before attempting a challenge.
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Mar 14, 2023
You can now run a GPT-3 level AI model on your laptop, phone, and Raspberry Pi
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI
Things are moving at lightning speed in AI Land. On Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov created a tool called “llama.cpp” that can run Meta’s new GPT-3-class AI large language model, LLaMA, locally on a Mac laptop. Soon thereafter, people worked out how to run LLaMA on Windows as well. Then someone showed it running on a Pixel 6 phone, and next came a Raspberry Pi (albeit running very slowly).
But let’s back up a minute, because we’re not quite there yet. (At least not today—as in literally today, March 13, 2023.) But what will arrive next week, no one knows.