“Human Uber,” developed in Japan, provides a way to attend events remotely using another person’s body. “It’s surprisingly natural” says its inventor, Jin Rekimoto of Sony #emtechasia
Will Knight
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Will Knight
@willknight
hi. my name is pronounced "wee-all".
I cover AI, robotics, and things @WIRED
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- Replying to @aginntThat's completely false. This appears to be a company's security system, which uses facial recognition to ID employees. You can find similar examples in the US.
- From a 1959 issue of @techreview: Arthur Samuel explains the machine learning behind his seminal checkers-playing program. The opening line: "LEARNING is now being done by a machine."
- I spoke with @demishassabis ahead of Gemini's launch today. He says the new multimodal model will be a foundation for rapid innovation in software agents, planning and reasoning (a la Q*), gameplay, and even physical robots.
- Sam Altman @sama said at MIT recently that further progress in AI wont come from making models more ginormous. Human feedback and new architectures may prove key, says @nickfrosst of @cohere.
- I interviewed @drfeifei for our AI issue. She is probably the smartest, most thoughtful person working in AI today
- Some exciting news: I'm joining @WIRED. It's been a pleasure working with so many great people at @techreview, but I’m thrilled to make the move. I’ll continue covering AI in collaboration with @tsimonite, and I start next week.
- Open sourcing the "the Twitter algorithm" doesn't make much sense when the platform is, in fact, a complex system of code and machine learning models that interact with human behavior in ways that can be mysterious even to Twitter. My latest for @WIRED:
- Zuck could probably earn billions in repaired reputation by quickly launching a viable alternative to twitter or donating a ton of money and resources to mastodon.
- Yoshua Bengio, one of the pioneers of deep learning, now wants to his algorithms to ask 'why' things happen: wired.com/story/ai-pione…
- MIT’s first big generative AI conference is packed for Lex Friedman interviewing Stephen Wolfram (or perhaps because @sama is up next…)
- If you care about AI then you need to know about the probabilistic computer chip being developed by @GillVerd (aka @beffjezos) and @TrevorMcCrt1 of @Extropic. The backstory is as fascinating as the technology itself.
- Besides being wildly unsustainable the datacenter boom assumes one way of building AI. The US should back efforts to explore new frontiers in computing.Current GPU-based data center scaling is getting ludicrous. There exists a better way. We're charting an alternative path forward for scaling intelligence @extropic. See @WIRED article for coverage from @willknight
- Amazing. The machines are trying to meme!One of my favorite samples from the Progressive GANs paper is this one from the "cat" category. Apparently some of the cat training photos were memes with text. The GAN doesn't know what text is so it has made up new text-like imagery in the right place for a meme caption.
