Trump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the “world's first utility-scale fusion power plant” in 2026
NOTE: Our Forums and CMS and RSS were nixed when our host updated Perl … Liz Hoffman / Semafor : America is becoming the world's dumb money Dominic Preston / The Verge : Trump Media is merging with a ...
Some Reddit moderators say a surge of AI slop on the site is eroding its authenticity and could lead to a feedback loop of AI models training on AI content
Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits. Bluesky: @drsmith , @rodneyabrooks , @jtlg , ...
Q&A with iRobot founder Rodney Brooks on his startup Robust.AI, which builds warehouse robots, unrealistic expectations around humanoid robots and AI, and more
Every so often, we find ourselves in the middle of a massive technological wave that starts to upend our presumptions and our ideas about the past, present, and future.
iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks details why humanoid robots won't learn human-level dexterity from current methods, how to make them safe for humans, and more
rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids- wont-learn-dexterity/ — In this post I explain why today's humanoid robots will not learn …
The former CEO of Everyday Robots, Alphabet's AI robotics moonshot that was shut down in January 2023, reflects on its start and efforts to give AI a robot body
As the head of Alphabet's AI-powered robotics moonshot, I came to believe many things. For one, robots can't come soon enough. X: @seankinneyrcr , @wired , @wired , @ieeefuturedir , @seankirmani , an...
How LLMs are taught to reason, the downsides of “chain of thought”, how models might solve problems without reasoning, and evaluating LLMs for general reasoning
What should we believe about the reasoning abilities of today's large language models? X: @mattbeane , @rtk254 , @rodneyabrooks , and @piesaac X: Matt Beane / @mattbeane : VERY well written summary of...
The San Francisco Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise denies any fault
Current “autonomous vehicles” are not actually autonomous. They still need backup drivers, just now they sit at computer screens instead of in the vehicles. — https://www.nytimes.com/... @bikemonte...
Elon Musk claims Tesla is “very close” to developing fully autonomous vehicles despite Tesla's “Full Self Driving” feature not living up to its name since 2016
it hasn't Adrian Potoroaca / TechSpot : Elon Musk: Tesla is close to achieving basic level 5 autonomy for its cars VentureBeat : Elon Musk says Tesla is ‘very close’ to level 5 autonomous driving Chin...
Profile of Rodney Brooks, the Australian roboticist who in 1990 co-founded iRobot, which used to make robots for US army and is now popular for Roomba vacuums
The professor who got robots zipping through the world—and cleaning house—by challenging conventional wisdom in AI.
Fernando Corbató, a Turing Award recipient whose work on time-sharing systems paved the way for the PC, as well as the computer password, dies at 93
Fernando Corbató, whose work on computer time-sharing in the 1960s helped pave the way for the personal computer … Tweets: @rodneyabrooks Tweets: Rodney Brooks / @rodneyabrooks : Fernando Corbato of M...