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AlphaZero tests rule-tweaked chess variants, finding more decisive play, diverse choices, and shifted piece values, making reimagined chess real.

Meta has launched a new business unit,

Someday we'll redesign the internet for tools like this. Until then, you're in for a wild ride.

Place every element on a canvas and edit a finished image one box at a time. Everything you didn’t touch stays exactly where it was.

The firm also issued an update on incidents in which its models accessed Australian government systems.

The U.S. banned AI chip exports. Billions still reached China — moved by shell companies, Southeast Asian middlemen, and operators gaming the system.

Ross developed an AI-based legal research platform that allowed lawyers to submit legal questions and receive relevant passages from court opinions. To train the system, the company...

SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields for Real-Time Large-Scene Exploration

We present Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) -- a data collection and policy learning framework that allows direct skill transfer from in-the-wild human demonstrations to deployable robot policies. UMI employs hand-held grippers coupled with careful interface design to enable portable, low-cost, and information-rich data collection for challenging bimanual and dynamic manipulation demonstrations. To facilitate deployable policy learning, UMI incorporates a carefully designed policy interface with inference-time latency matching and a relative-trajectory action representation. The resulting learned policies are hardware-agnostic and deployable across multiple robot platforms. Equipped with these features, UMI framework unlocks new robot manipulation capabilities, allowing zero-shot generalizable dynamic, bimanual, precise, and long-horizon behaviors, by only changing the training data for each task. We demonstrate UMI’s versatility and efficacy with comprehensive real-world experiments, where policies learned via UMI zero-shot generalize to novel environments and objects when trained on diverse human demonstrations.

Here is a short, illustrative example of one of the ways in which I use Claude and ChatGPT on a daily basis. I recently learned that the Adirondack Park is …

SV3D generates novel multi-view synthesis from a single input image.

China has already implemented many rules governing the use of artificial intelligence.

Before it started cracking, the LLM developed Python and C++ software for an Enigma simulator and Enigma Bombe.

Modern AI systems approach tasks like recognising objects in images and predicting the 3D structure of proteins as a diligent student would prepare for an exam. By training on many example problems, …

Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else. I try hard not to work on AI (except when the topic occasionally tosses itself in my path), so in this post I'm mostly trying to referee arguments made by others. If…