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Okay, There Are AI Robots Everywhere Now

Okay, There Are AI Robots Everywhere Now

Tesla, Amazon plus a slew of startups are all talking robotics this week

Nathaniel Whittemore
May 17, 2023

Welcome to The AI Breakdown, the most interesting & important news and conversations in AI.

First, the News:

Apple is updating text-to-speech that can mimic a user’s voice
Elon Musk says he’s the reason OpenAI exists
Hungry for that longer context window? Quora’s Poe is beta-testing Claude’s 100k update
Buzzfeed appears to be replacing news with generative AI

Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti, speaking at Investor Day, just one week after laying off its entire News team: "Over the next few years, generative AI will replace the majority of static content"
investors.buzzfeed.com/static-files/4…
— Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant)
7:24 PM • May 17, 2023

The Most Interesting..Well Thing?

There are robots everywhere this week. I’m not exactly sure what to say about it, other than…they’re everywhere. Amazon, Tesla, Sanctuary AI…and some Doc Ock thing.

Multiple fully Tesla-made Bots now walking around & learning about the real world 🤖
Join the Tesla AI team → httpp
— Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus)
8:55 PM • May 16, 2023

Introducing Phoenix: a revolutionary humanoid general-purpose robot designed for work. Read the full news release:
Phoenix is the first humanoid to be powered by Carbon, a pioneering AI control system, and represents a giant leap forward in our mission to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Sanctuary AI (@TheSanctuaryAI)
3:19 PM • May 16, 2023

6つのターミナルを持つベースユニットと、装着者が制御可能な着脱式ロボットアームからなるウェアラブルシステム
#WearableTech#robotics#cyborg#roboticlimb#JIZAI_ARMS#自在肢#ロボットアーム#ウェアラブル技術
— T.Yasaki (@ZappyZappy7)
3:09 PM • May 8, 2023

Now perhaps rather than some insightful analysis here, I’ll point you to a recent talk by Yuval Noah Harari about “AI and the future of humanity.” In it, he makes the point that our science fiction conception of the AI threat involves AI claiming a physical form in robots. However, he believes language and the intimacy it can bring is enough to do the damage. Worth your consideration:

The Most Interesting…Plugins

It’s Plugins mania after Bard opened to all last week and ChatGPT is rolling Plugins and Browsing out to Plus users this week. Here’s a categorization of the Plugins so far:

Imagine discovering the Apple App Store when it only had 74 apps.
This is where we are with ChatGPT Plugins right now.
Here are all 74 ChatGPT Plugins with descriptions and sorted into categories:
— Moritz Kremb (@moritzkremb)
2:39 PM • May 17, 2023

Plus my video about what I think is most intriguing and useful so far (and how plugins change the ChatGPT experience).

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