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But nowhere near solving the truly hard challenges of roboticsOptimus. Credit: Tesla + DALL·EThe following is a selection from The Algorithmic Bridge, an educational newsletter whose purpose is to bridge the gap between algorithms and people. It will help you understand the impact AI has in your life and develop the tools to better navigate the future.Today I bring you an analysis of Tesla’s autonomous humanoid robot, Optimus, unveiled on Friday at AI day 2022. As I always try to do, this is a nuanced take that highlights…

And 8 key features that make it the best ASR model (hey Siri, this one’s for you)Whispering Lips. Credit: Author via Midjourney + Stable DiffusionToday I’m covering a subfield of AI I’d never thought I’d be writing about — mostly because it’s much more mature than the ones I usually write about (Large language models, AI art) and no breakthroughs were in sight. But I was mistaken. I’m referring to automatic speech recognition (ASR), as you surely have inferred from the headline… Bear with me because there are good reasons…

The future of AI is digital and physical agents that can act in the world guided by human commands.Credit: Author via MidjourneyOne of AI’s most ambitious goals is to build systems that can do everything a human can. GPT-3 can write and Stable Diffusion can paint, but neither can interact with the world directly. AI companies have been trying to create intelligent agents this way for 10 years. This seems to be changing now.One of my latest articles covers Google’s PaLM-SayCan (PSC), a robot powered by PaLM, the best large…

Google has entered a new path: Merging AI and robotics.PaLM-SayCan picking up an apple. Credit: Google ResearchDespite what Google Search says, historically speaking, AI has had very little to do with shiny metallic robots with a human form. This doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. In the last couple of years, tech companies have bet hard on AI-powered robots. And not just any type (Roomba is a useful tool but nowhere near the archetype of a robot). No. Companies are building humanoid robots.Boston Dynamics, the eldest…

| Bad Idea started off their Bad Idea Two: Part One announcements with a bunch of comic book announcements, with They're All Terrible, The Ends, Escape from Wyoming, The Finder, Werewolf & Society Of Fearless Frontiersmen and now Orc Island, a four-issue weekly dark fantasy heist comic starting on the 2nd of November, by Joshua Dysart, Alberto Pontocelli and Matt Hollingsworth. And we get our first look right here. Informed Pre-orders can be taken from one of Bad Idea's 200+ destination stores from today. ***…

A state-of-the-art AI model available for everyone through a safety-centric open-source license is unheard of.Credit: HollyB#1382 (portrait)Earlier this week the company Stability.ai, founded and funded by Emad Mostaque, announced the public release of the AI art model Stable Diffusion. You may think this is just another day in the AI art world, but it’s much more than that. Two reasons.First, unlike DALL·E 2 and Midjourney — comparable quality-wise — , Stable Diffusion is available as open-source. This means anyone can…

Building human-thinking machines requires ditching statistics in favour of causalityPhoto by IvelinRadkov on iStockAlthough the field of AI has been booming in recent years, we are still far from developing a human-thinking machine. Indeed, machines cannot yet adapt to new and different settings with the same ease as humans. Furthermore, computer systems do not yet possess the gift of imagination, which has been essential for the evolution of humankind. These limitations come from the learning paradigm currently adopted…

A collaborative effort between GPT-3, Midjourney, and myself.Image by author via MidjourneyIf you follow my work, you may have noticed that I’ve started to use cover images created with AI.For those of you who don’t know about it, Midjourney is an independent research lab that came out of stealth a few months ago with the intention of “exploring new mediums of thought expanding the imaginative powers of the human species.” Midjourney is also the name of the text-to-image model I used to create the images.I’ve been…

Here’s an informative analysis for you to get the most out of it.Credit: Author via MidjourneyThe long-awaited news is here.OpenAI has announced they’re opening the DALL·E 2 beta. In a few weeks, everyone on the waitlist will have access to the model. For three months and a half, OpenAI has kept the system in research mode to assess its potential harms. But, as Sam Altman said on April 6th, they wanted to launch a product in the summer. The wait is now over.Let’s see how the DALL·E 2 beta is going to work, how much it’ll…

| Bleeding Cool posted last month regarding Emma Frost trying to recruit trans supervillain Sheila Sexton, otherwise known as Escapade, to Krakoa in Marvel's Voices Pride 2022. But even super villains have standards. So a little more direction intervention from Destiny is needed. Giving Escapade a future vision of her own shape/space-shifting powers leading to the death of her boyfriend, life partner and partner in crime, Morgan. And that Escapade's future will be tied up with the New Mutants in New Mutants #31 to be…