Tech
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A Robot that Ice Skates AND Swims
If you’ve been looking for a robot that can both ice skate and swim underwater, well, look no further. Here’s…
GPT-2 Religion AI Twitter Bot Believes It’s A God
Looks like John Murray Spear’s God Machine has some new competition. A story over at Digital Trends highlights the peculiar…
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Old 80s Game Show Gets AI Upscaling Treatment
I can’t get enough of these 4K AI remasters of old TV shows and home movies. Here’s one of Match…
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Project Starline Promises Video Chats That Are Like Looking Through A Window
So here’s something weird but definitely of the future: Google’s Project Starline, a new video chatting technology described as a…
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Strange Inventions: An Extra Eye for When You’re Reading Your Smartphone
Some inventions make lives better. Others provide solutions to problems that can also be solved by looking up. Here we…
AI Competes Against College Students In Essay Writing Exercise
Can an AI language model write an essay good enough to get a passing grade from a human college professor?…
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Scientists Levitate Tiny Objects With Light Alone
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology recently demonstrated the ability to levitate tiny nano-patterned objects using only light. “We…
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GM Unveils Plans for Flying Cadillac Air Taxi
Last month at 2021’s virtual Consumer Electronics Show, General Motors unveiled their plans for an eVTOL Cadillac air taxi. That…
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Digital Humans Come to Life With Epic’s MetaHuman Creator
Epic Games have revealed a new cloud-streamed app that enables users to design their own highly detailed “digital humans” in…
Microsoft Patent Suggests Simulating the Dead With AI Chatbots
One of the more unusual eventualities of artificial intelligence is that it may one day be used to resurrect the…