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Here’s the first thing we spoke about – the rise of the robots: lifelike humanoid robots are now here, with Ameca from the UK wowing everyone with ChatGPT-4 level conversations, and the most lifelike facial expressions yet – which are either incredible or incredibly creepy – but what about the US startup called Figure01 that just raised $70 million to create a competitor?
Here’s Ameca:
There’s also Elon Musk’s robot demo’d at the Telstra Day in October last year, while scientists have also demo’d a new centipede-like robot that could be used for search and rescue missions.
Here’s the Figure.ai video:
Here’s Elon Musk’s investor day – press play and the video will go straight to the robot section:
2. Next week is Apple’s big worldwide developer conference, and we’ll discuss it all next week when the details are official, but what can we expect to hear about? You’ll be able to watch live here and we’ll talk about it next week.
3. Elon Musk has been adding new features to Twitter – you can now adjust the video playback speed of videos on Twitter, and you can now watch videos in PIP or Picture in Picture mode, so you can watch something while checking out other tweets, but Alex says the PIP is still in WIP, a “work in progress”, so what’s still to be done with this mode?
4. Top AI Scientists Warn: Risk of Extinction from AI on Scale with Nuclear War
Distinguished AI scientists, including Turing Award winners Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, and leaders of the major AI labs, including Sam Altman of OpenAI and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, have signed a single-sentence statement from the Center for AI Safety. What is their warning? What are the implications? Here’s the statement!
