What's new, Atlas? (AI, Robotics and tech thread)

Folks in Paris have figured out how to more than double quantum memory storage.

Hello, quantum money and communications!

I found this 10 minute video from August 2017 about farming tech. Lots of advances, and the last couple of minutes show autonomous farming bots.

Finally, an end to humans facing the tedium of jogging is in sight.

In case the terror of watching that isn’t enough, know that SpotMini can now autonomously navigate stairs, in addition to being able to open doors.

I’d like to see a video of that thing lying on its back, waving its legs in the air.

I can’t wait to see your video next year!

That’s awesome.

Check out this robot/waldo, straight out of Hinokio.

When I saw the case I thought “Baymax!” but it was the controllers. :smiley:

Very, very cool thing there. I can see it changing doctor’s lives immensely. Not to mention tourism being completely re-made.

This just popped up on my AP feed: Maker of fearsome animal robots slowly emerges from stealth!

It’s a fairly brief article about Boston Dynamics; I highly recommend it if you’re interested in these things (and why else would you be in this thread, eh?).

This was posted just 3 weeks ago: are you sure you saw that person say or do that? Brief article here which also has the video embedded.

This is nearly flawless. At times it IS flawless.

I saw this on the AP today and thought it fit for this thread; it’s pretty ddamned amazing, IMO: IBM computer proves formidable against 2 human debaters. Debated subjects in real time, by voice.

Pretty nifty, eh.

AIs now exist that work together to achieve a common goal. This is huge, IMO.

They tested the AI5 against an amateur human team and won, but they plan to play against a top human team on 28 July. I have no doubt they’ll destroy all humans, just like the single AI destroyed the world’s best player last year.

So what happens after they beat a top human team?

I think the AI have teamed up to change your link to Carpool Karaoke :slight_smile:

Well that’s a pretty good bit of technology, too, so at least it’s not a complete waste of code. :stuck_out_tongue:

Here’s the proper story: Dota 2 challenging bots turn hard to beat after being taught cooperative mode

They can also work together to create Japanese schoolgirls.

I admit I am unclear on how that is an example of multiple AIs working together.

You may wish to call the two neural networks something other than AIs. I’m not going for that level of hair-splitting.

That is not even remotely the same concept of “working together for a common goal” as what I mentioned; it is merely an example of reinforcement learning. The two bots you’re talking about don’t make decisions to enable the other to better perform a task or to re-divide the tasks they are performing to optimize an outcome, they are each simply doing the job they were designed for. They aren’t “working together” any more than two cogs are “working together”.

Seriously: robot stuntmen!

Did you see that superhero pose in the last shot? I don’t see why you wouldn’t use these and then just plaster people’s faces on them in post! You could do some outrageous stunt shots!