AI & RoboticsNews

Anthropomorphizing AI: Dire consequences of mistaking human-like for human have already emerged

January 23, 2025
In our rush to understand and relate to AI, we have fallen into a seductive trap: Attributing human characteristics to these robust but fundamentally non-human systems. This anthropomorphizing AI is not just a harmless quirk of human nature — it is becoming an increasingly dangerous tendency that might cloud our judgment in critical ways. Business leaders are comparing AI learning to human…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

The Rise of Humanoid Robots: Beyond Science Fiction

January 21, 2025
Humanoid robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction. Imagine a world where robots not only collaborate with us in factories but also greet us in stores, aid in surgeries and care for our loved ones. With Tesla planning to deploy thousands of Optimus robots by 2026…
AI & RoboticsNews

Open-source DeepSeek-R1 uses pure reinforcement learning to match OpenAI o1 — at 95% less cost

January 21, 2025
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, known for challenging leading AI vendors with open-source technologies, just dropped another bombshell: a new open reasoning LLM called DeepSeek-R1. Based on the recently introduced DeepSeek V3 mixture-of-experts model, DeepSeek-R1 matches the performance of o1, OpenAI’s frontier reasoning LLM, across math, coding and reasoning tasks. The best part? It does this at a…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI’s agentic era begins: ChatGPT Tasks offers job scheduling, reminders and more

January 17, 2025
ChatGPT is taking a significant step toward becoming a full-blown personal assistant with the release of a new feature called Tasks. This could signal that OpenAI will release more agents in the future. Currently in beta, Tasks lets ChatGPT Plus, Team and Pro users schedule actions ahead of time. For example, if someone wants to receive project reminders or daily weather updates, they can prompt…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

Forget Nvidia: Ndea wants to build AI that keeps improving on its own with ‘no bottlenecks in sight’

January 16, 2025
François Chollet, a former Google engineer and the creator of the widely-used Python deep learning framework Keras, has co-founded Ndea, a new AI research and science lab, alongside Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier. In a post on the startup’s new website, the founders explain their goals of combining intuitive pattern recognition, enabled by deep learning, with formal reasoning through what…
Read more