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Gemini
“Google DeepMind just published new research on robot navigation. The research leverages the large context window of Gemini 1.5 Pro to enable robots to understand and navigate complex environments from human instructions.
Google says Gemini AI is making its robots smarter – The Verge
“How can Gemini 1.5 Pro’s long context window help robots navigate the world? 🤖 A thread of our latest experiments. 🧵
“Samsung just unveiled its latest AI-infused foldable smartphones: Some new features include: – Sketch-to-image – Note Assist – Interpreter and Live Translate – Built-in integration for the Google Gemini app – A new AI-powered ProVisual Engine – & More
Other Google News
Google’s search market dominance grows as ChatGPT falters
Google DeepMind’s AI Rat Brains Could Make Robots Scurry Like the Real Thing
“We took the robots on a tour of specific areas in a real-world setting, highlighting key places to recall – such as “Lewis’s desk” or “temporary desk area”. Then, they were asked to lead us to these locations. 🏢 Watch more. ↓
“Next, we provided more multimodal instructions, such as: 📝 Map sketches on a whiteboard 🗣️ Audio requests referencing places from the tour 🎲 Visual cues, like a box of toys. With these acting as inputs, the robot could carry out various actions for different people.
“In tests, Google DeepMinds robots responded to multimodal instructions, including map sketches, audio requests, and visual cues like a box of toys. The system also allows for natural language commands like “take me somewhere to draw things”
Google Struggles to Lessen Reliance on Apple Safari — The Information
Google considered blocking Safari users from accessing its new AI features, report says – 9to5Mac
“Google DeepMind researchers published new research introducing JEST. It’s a new method that accelerates AI model training while significantly reducing computing requirements. Faster training capabilities = the acceleration of advanced model releases is just getting started
New AI Training Technique Is Drastically Faster, Says Google – Decrypt
“YouTube introduced a new AI-powered eraser tool. It allows creators to quickly remove copyrighted music from videos while preserving other audio elements. Between this and all the other AI tools YouTube is building, it seems like they’re all-in.
“Good news creators: our updated Erase Song tool helps you easily remove copyright-claimed music from your video (while leaving the rest of your audio intact). Learn more…
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AI News #41: Week Ending 07/12/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 58 Links
The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Safe Intelligence, Inc.
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources
Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
- Andrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy
- Brett Adcock: https://x.com/adcock_brett
- Florent Daudens: https://x.com/fdaudens
- Ate-a-Pi: https://x.com/8teAPi
- Francesco Marconi: https://x.com/fpmarconi
- Charlie Beckett: https://x.com/CharlieBeckett
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