Teaching robot policies without new demonstrations: interview with Jiahui Zhang and Jesse Zhang

Teaching robot policies without new demonstrations: interview with Jiahui Zhang and Jesse Zhang
The ReWiND method, which consists of three phases: learning a reward function, pre-training, and using the reward function and pre-trained ...
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Artificial Intelligence Streamlines Higher Ed Admissions

Artificial Intelligence Streamlines Higher Ed Admissions
  In addition to helping students start an application, the chatbot can check their application status, tell them what their ...
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Delivering securely on data and AI strategy 

Delivering securely on data and AI strategy 
That’s getting more challenging, says Nithin Ramachandran, who is global vice president for data and AI at industrial and consumer ...
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Do Labels Make AI Blind? Self-Supervision Solves the Age-Old Binding Problem

Do Labels Make AI Blind? Self-Supervision Solves the Age-Old Binding Problem
paper from Konrad Körding’s Lab [1], “Does Object Binding Naturally Emerge in Large Pretrained Vision Transformers?” gives insights into a ...
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Congress warned that NASA’s current plan for Artemis “cannot work”

Congress warned that NASA’s current plan for Artemis “cannot work”
As for what to do about it, Griffin said legislators should end the present plan. “The Artemis III mission and ...
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Circle’s Jeremy Allaire: We’re Building an ‘Economic OS’ for the AI Era

Circle’s Jeremy Allaire: We’re Building an ‘Economic OS’ for the AI Era
The global economy is about to undergo a major shift—and it’s going to be centered around cryptocurrency, according to Jeremy ...
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AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements

AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements
“One conversation with an LLM has a pretty meaningful effect on salient election choices,” says Gordon Pennycook, a psychologist at ...
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Apple announces even more major executive turnover

Apple announces even more major executive turnover
Jackson, technically “vice president for Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives,” will retire in “late January 2026,” Apple says. Newstead, who ...
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Meta Poached Apple’s Top Design Guys to Fix Its Software UI

Meta Poached Apple’s Top Design Guys to Fix Its Software UI
Meta has made a big move to hire two prominent designers away from rival tech giant Apple, likely putting them ...
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AI Data Centers Are Making RAM Crushingly Expensive, Which Is Going to Skyrocket the Cost of Laptops, Tablets, and Gaming PCs

AI Data Centers Are Making RAM Crushingly Expensive, Which Is Going to Skyrocket the Cost of Laptops, Tablets, and Gaming PCs
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Budget-wise, there have certainly been better times to be a PC ...
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