Robots & AI

Alphabet-backed Waymo is leading the robotaxi revolution, but Tesla’s new Cybercab could change everything.

AI chatbots may have certain advantages when roleplaying as our friends. They may also come with downsides that make our loneliness worse.

The future of hacking is coming at us fast, and it isn’t clear yet whether AI will help attackers and defenders more.

Magic AI is developing an advanced AI software engineer it sees as a milestone along the path to artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Researchers tasked teachers with rating hundreds of essays, some written by students and others written by ChatGPT. Here's what they found.

Ross Pomeroy

For everyone's safety, humans are likely to remain a necessary central component of air traffic control for a long time to come.

Amy Pritchett

Nvidia’s Chat with RTX tool lets you create a custom chatbot that runs locally on your PC and can answer questions about your personal files.

For around 500 years, the printed word shaped our education and culture. What lessons can we learn from it in the new age of AI?

Ewan Thomson | World Economic Forum

Open-source AIs and commercial hardware may be enough to build domestic robots that can take over our chores.

OpenAI is reportedly developing “AI agents,” software that can perform tasks on people’s devices upon request.

Google's new text-to-video model, Lumiere, promises a new architecture that will make video AI models more modern and powerful.

Google just made its most capable generative AI — Gemini Ultra — available to the public, while killing the “Bard” brand.

AI scholars look ahead to 2024 and describe the issues developers, regulators, and everyday people are likely to face.

Casey Fiesler and Anjana Susarla and Kentaro Toyama

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