Has SV tricked us into thinking that digital is enough and now pretends like digital agents are smart? Part 2 of my conversation with @theinternetiscrack.bsky.social. I also cover three hurdles to humanoid robots and argue that humans are too awesome to be replaced. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lSW...
#92 The Future of Robotics PART2: A Discussion With Dr. Guy Hoffman
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Do humanoid robots really make sense? Part 2 of our conversation with @guyhoffman.bsky.social explores why practical robots may have a bigger impact than humanoids. The full episode explores the future of robotics, separating hype from reality. 🎧 youtu.be/2lSWxHdCYgo #AI #Robotics
Are we building better machines or just more tempting illusions? 🤖 On @theinternetiscrack.bsky.social podcast, I discuss the insidious design of AI and why humanoid robots are more sci-fi fantasy than sound engineering. (Part I / II) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyWM...
#91 The Future of Robotics PART1: A Discussion With Dr. Guy Hoffman
YouTube video by The Internet is Crack
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The Dark Patterns that manipulate chatbot users. @404media.co reports on the new study just published by my wife @mluria.bsky.social and her co-authors, Ruchika Joshi and Adinawa Adjagbodjou. www.404media.co/new-study-re...
New Study Reveals the Manipulative ‘Dark Patterns’ of AI Chatbots
A new study by the Center for Democracy & Technology shows how chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Replika and more can lead users down paths they didn't intend.
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This is one of the many bad things that happen when every university in the country (world?) tells its faculty to consider how to use GenAI in their domain.
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 4mo agoToo late for inclusion but I would have also directed your attention to this school that used AI to announce student names, resulting in it skipping over hundreds of them
@mluria.bsky.social on why #Anthropic did not actually run the "largest #qualitative study in history": www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #AI #Academia
What 81,000 people want from AI | Michal Luria, Ph.D.
Let’s start from the end: what Anthropic did here is not qualitative research. Is it an impressive scale for a free-response field survey? Yes. An interesting way to collect user feedback en masse? Ab...
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When, and more importantly, _why_ did "Artificial Intelligence" change from a noun describing a research area to a proper noun for a piece of software. As in "the relationship between the AI and our participants". This drives me crazy. Am I the only one?
For the love of god, can robotics companies please stop demoing their robots making coffee? e.g., www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pistar06 You have no idea how privileged and detached this looks. Also: coffee making is not a technologically unsolved problem anyone should be working on.
A VLA that Learns from Experience
A method for training our generalist policies with RL to improve success rate and throughput on real-world tasks.
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Hearing Sam Altman, who didn't finish his undergraduate degree describe GPT-5 as "Ph.D-level", is like me saying that my new running shoes make me run at "Olympic level" (to clarify, I barely finish a sub-30-minute 5k).
"Let’s be honest: The real issue isn’t me—it’s you. You simply don’t read enough. If you did, you’d know I’ve been here for centuries." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
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In my commencement address to the graduating class of engineering in my departments, I encouraged them to: 1. Doubt Generative "AI" Models 2. Remember the unseen work of those who enabled them to succeed. write.guyhoffman.com/my-address-t...
You Don't Have to Use AI
My Commencement Address to our 2025 Graduating Class This is what I said to this year's graduating class of Mechanical and Aerospace Eng...
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My almost-7-year old post aged very well, if I may say so myself. medium.com/datadrivenin...
Google Brings People and AI Closer Together (but not the way you think)
Google has been showing a lot of AI technology recently, garnering the Oohs and Aahs of audiences and tech blogs. For example: Gmail will…
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Matt Mason (former Director of the CMU Robotics Institute) explaining how even simple manipulation tasks in the home require a lot more than simply learning a trajectory...and the mathematical difference between wedged and jammed drawers. mtmason.com/the-heart-of...
The Heart of Robotic Manipulation - Matthew T. Mason
Contact is the heart of robotic manipulation. To understand manipulation, you must understand contact.
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Came across this 1995 email from the MIT AI Grad Student Group mailing list, and thought it was too precious to not share: www.ai.mit.edu/lab/gsb/gsl-...
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 01:53:33 -0500 From:: pgs@thillana.lcs.mit.edu (Patrick Sobalvarro) To: gsl@ai.mit.edu Subject: GSL Friday, December 8, 12:15 p.m., 8th floor playroom
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they used to sell this backflipping dog toy out the front of the toy store at the mall for like $15 in 1996 youtu.be/7PCCvOcSCqQ?...
Fantastic Puppy Battery Operated Back Flip Jumping Dog Jump Run Toy Kid (Jumping Dog)
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Chris Paxton@cpaxton.bsky.social · last yr.NOETIX robot: 44lbs, <4 feet tall, 18 dof, Jetson on board. Starting at $5.5k. At this rate I am fairly convinced there will be robots absolutely everywhere within 5 years; although probably more form factors than just humanoids.
If this were an undergrad research assistant in my lab, we would have parted way right there and then. #DOGE
Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings (Gift Article)
For the second time in a week, Elon Musk’s government overhaul effort updated its “wall of receipts” to remove mistakes that inflated its success.
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Little known, recently discovered fact: Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk. Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines. Gift🔗👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Tony Almquist@tony-almquist.bsky.social · 2y agoby @zey.bsky.social "Before vaccines, measles infections may have been implicated in as many as half of all childhood deaths from infectious diseases. The true harm of measles is far greater than its death toll, & the legacy of this outbreak may still be felt years after it’s officially contained"
Elon Musk's wrecking-ball strategy to government, recently exemplified by his idea to make away with regulations, which should be "default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark [...] we can always add it back in” is classic inexperienced software developer mindset.
Are you going to a Big Game party on Sunday? Or perhaps going to watch the pro football championship game? Or take in the majestic splendor of the Superb Owl? You can also just call it by its real name: the Super Bowl.
You Can Call the Super Bowl the "Super Bowl"
Are you going to a Big Game party on Sunday? Or perhaps going to watch the pro football championship game? Or take in the majestic splendor of the Superb Owl? You can also just call it by its real nam...
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