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Challengers Are Coming for Nvidia’s Crown

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Founded in 1993, Nvidia first made its mark in the then-new field of graphics processing units (GPUs) for personal computers. Because otherwise they can’t have fun, even if they have the best model,” says Jennifer Prendki , head of AI data at Google DeepMind. And Google is no longer alone.

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Transparency Depends on Digital Breadcrumbs

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From the moment we wake up and reach for our smartphones and throughout the day as we text each other, upload selfies to social media, shop, commute, work, work out, watch streaming media, pay bills, and travel, and even while we’re sleeping, we spew personal data like jets sketching contrails across the sky.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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It’s a textbook example of the mixture of amazement and, especially, anxiety that often accompanies a tech triumph. You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee?

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. Roboticist, Google Brain.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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I'm a very competitive person," he says, "so I was motivated to try and disprove these articles and actually build this device.". Georgia Tech freshman studying computer science, created a rip-current detection system that incorporates machine learning. Rip currents are dangerous phenomena that can pull swimmers into deep water.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. This was around the same period that AT&T, still smarting from misadventures like the EO Personal Communicator , spun off Bell Labs as Lucent Technologies.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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The award is sponsored by Google. People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment.”