Be part of us for EmTech Digital on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Could 22-23, 2024. I’ll be there—be a part of me! 

Our implausible audio system embody Nick Clegg, president of worldwide affairs at Meta, who will speak about elections and AI-generated misinformation. We even have the OpenAI researchers who constructed the video-generation AI Sora, sharing their imaginative and prescient on how generative AI will change Hollywood. Then Max Tegmark, the MIT professor who wrote an open letter final 12 months calling for a pause on AI growth, will take inventory of what has occurred and talk about the right way to make highly effective techniques extra secure. We even have a bunch of prime scientists from the labs at Google, OpenAI, AWS, MIT, Nvidia and extra. 

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Deeper Studying

Researchers taught robots to run. Now they’re instructing them to stroll.

Researchers at Oregon State College have efficiently skilled a humanoid robotic referred to as Digit V3 to face, stroll, choose up a field, and transfer it from one location to a different. In the meantime, a separate group of researchers from the College of California, Berkeley, have centered on instructing Digit to stroll in unfamiliar environments whereas carrying completely different masses, with out toppling over. 

What’s the large deal: Each teams are utilizing an AI method referred to as sim-to-real reinforcement studying, a burgeoning methodology of coaching two-legged robots like Digit. Researchers imagine it’s going to result in extra strong, dependable two-legged machines able to interacting with their environment extra safely—in addition to studying far more shortly. Learn extra from Rhiannon Williams. 

Bits and Bytes

It’s time to retire the time period “consumer”
The proliferation of AI means we want a brand new phrase. Instruments we as soon as referred to as AI bots have been assigned lofty titles like “copilot,” “assistant,” and “collaborator” to convey a way of partnership as an alternative of a way of automation. But when AI is now a companion, then what are we? (MIT Expertise Overview)