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Quantum computing could give AI the rocket fuel to be transformative

Quantum computing could give us machines massively more powerful than today’s, but we still have a long way to go, say leaders in the field.

The tech story of the century so far has been the mainstream arrival of generative artificial intelligence, which drives the uncanny capabilities of systems such as ChatGPT, and is fast being absorbed into our everyday lives.

Whether to mimic human creativity, double as empathetic counsellor or eliminate clerical drudgery, generative AI has delivered an unprecedented surge in excitement for its potential benefits.

Of equal concern are possible negatives: catastrophic job losses, widespread disinformation, and even – at the wildly unsettling end of the… More.

Quantum computing will change the world as we know it, but more breakthroughs are needed before we see the hugely powerful processors become an everyday reality, say quantum physicists.

This start-up wants to make humanoid robots with ChatGPT-like brains

The Shanghai-based company plans to begin mass production of its GR-1 robot by end of 2023 and deliver thousands of units next yearFourier hopes to collaborate with major AI companies to work on the ‘brain’ of its bipedal robot.

When Fourier Intelligence unveiled its lanky, jet-black humanoid robot GR-1 at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai in July, it instantly stole the show.

While the global technology community has been fixated on artificial intelligence (AI) software since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November, the Chinese-made GR-1 – said to be capable of walking on two legs at a speed of 5km an hour while carrying a 50kg load – reminded people of the… More.

The CEO of Fourier Intelligence discusses his plans and vision for the GR-1 humanoid robot, which stole the show at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai last month.

A YouTuber with 15 million subscribers has launched his own AI replacement. Some viewers are skeptical, but he thinks it’ll secure his legacy

Jordi van den Bussche has been posting gaming content on YouTube for over a decade. He’s now announced he’ll be stepping away from the camera, thanks to an AI replacement. Some viewers are skeptical about the change, but the YouTuber is confident it will bring success.

A YouTuber has launched his own AI replacement, which will now be starring in and producing videos on his behalf. It’s caused quite a stir among viewers who are debating whether they’re fans of the drastic change.

Jordi van den Bussche, a gaming creator based in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, has been posting on YouTube under the moniker “Kwebbelkop” since 2011 and has so far amassed a following of 15.1 million subscribers.

From Elon Musk to Chinese tech titans, everyone wants Nvidia’s GPU chips. There might not be enough to go around

Elon Musk has loaded up on Nvidia GPUs for X, xAI, and Tesla. Meanwhile, Chinese tech titans are reportedly scrambling to buy $5 billion worth of the chips.

It seems like everyone and anyone wants to snap up Nvidia.

Sales of the company’s graphic processing units (GPUs) have surged since ChatGPT ignited an AI frenzy, propelling it to a stellar first-quarter earnings performance and boosting its total valuation to over $1 trillion back in May.

Elon Musk says Tesla cars now have a mind, figured out ‘some aspects of AGI’

Elon Musk claims that Tesla may have “figured out some aspects of AGI” as he believes that Tesla vehicles now have “a mind.”

The CEO has said several times that he believes most of Tesla’s value is attached to self-driving, ad he says Tesla could achieve it by the end of the year.

The Tesla community is divided between believers who think the automaker is indeed about to deliver on its long-stated promise, and people who have been burned too many times by missed timelines and think a robotaxi service from Tesla is still years away.

Robot Preachers Unwelcome by Faith Community, According to a New Study

Imagine walking into your local place of worship, finding your seat, and getting ready to hear a sermon. But instead of your familiar priest, minister, or rabbi, a robot steps up to deliver the day’s message. It might sound like science fiction, but it’s becoming a real possibility in some parts of the world.

Can a machine really lead a religious service? Would people accept a robot as a spiritual guide? A new study decided to find out, and the results might surprise you.

The robot that cleans and maintains outdoor wooden decks

Gal Frenkel built a wooden deck and pool in the backyard of his home in central Israel the summer after he had sold luxury wedding/bar mitzvah event planner Sky Productions (opening price for an event: $1 million).

Frenkel hosted a few parties there, and after the summer he didn’t think much about his pool and deck. When he went out to look at it the following spring, he was shocked.

“The whole area looked old and ruined and faded. I was so disappointed,” he tells ISRAEL21c. “I called the guy who installed the deck and said, ‘Nadav, you really messed it up.’ He started laughing. ‘Decks need ongoing maintenance,’ he explained. So, I asked him, ‘Can you do that for me?’ ‘Sure,’ he said. ‘The price will be 10,000 shekels.’”

How Can We Generate A New Concept That Has Never Been Seen? Researchers at Tel Aviv University Propose ConceptLab: Creative Generation Using Diffusion Prior Constraints

Recent developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence have led to solutions to a variety of use cases. Different text-to-image generative models have paved the way for an exciting new field where written words can be transformed into vibrant, engrossing visual representations. The capacity to conceptualize distinctive ideas inside fresh circumstances has been further expanded by the explosion of personalization techniques as a logical evolution. A number of algorithms have been developed that simulate creative behaviors or aim to enhance and augment human creative processes.

Researchers have been putting in efforts to find out how one can use these technologies to create wholly original and inventive notions. For that, in a recent research paper, a team of researchers introduced Concept Lab in the field of inventive text-to-image generation. The basic goal in this domain is to provide fresh examples that fall within a broad categorization. Considering the challenge of developing a new breed of pet that is radically different from all the breeds we are accustomed to, the domain of Diffusion Prior models is the main tool in this research.

This approach has drawn its inspiration from token-based personalization, which is a pre-trained generative model’s text encoder using a token to express a unique concept. Since there are no previous photographs of the intended subject, creating a new notion is more difficult than using a conventional inversion technique. The CLIP vision-language model has been used to direct the optimization process in order to address this. There are positive and negative sides to the limitations; while the negative limitations cover the existing members of the category from which the generation should deviate, the positive constraint promotes the development of images that are in line with the wide category.