Watch Google DeepMind’s robot ping pong player take on humans
Demonstrations – Achieving human level competitive robot table tennis Ping pong seems to be the sport of choice when it comes to tech firms showcasing their robotic wares. Japanese firm…
Google Rolls out New Accessibility Feature That Lets You Talk by Staring At Emojis
Sure, Google I/O was one massive AI-palooza focused mostly on Gemini. But for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, there are a few more AI-enhanced vision features coming to some accessibility features…
OpenAI Has Receipts: Elon Musk Wanted OpenAI to Merge With Tesla
OpenAI’s founders published a scathing response to Elon Musk’s lawsuit Tuesday night, claiming that Musk made a power grab to achieve “absolute control” of the AI startup in 2017. The…
Google Will Relaunch Gemini in a ‘Few Weeks,’ After Its Racial Controversy
Google launched a new AI image generator earlier this month that, for all intents and purposes, was incapable of generating consistent images of white people. As you might expect, rightwing…
Google Apologizes for Hurting White Peoples’ Feelings
Google apologized on Friday saying its team “got it wrong” with a new image generation feature for its Gemini AI chatbot after various images it created that were devoid of…
University of Michigan Says It’s Not Selling Student Data to AI Companies
On Thursday morning, news broke that someone was going around selling student data from the University of Michigan to tech workers that build AI chatbot tech. An employee at Google…
DeepMind Co-Founder: AI Is Fundamentally a “Labor Replacing Tool”
Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech Off English For months, I’ve…
Google Wrote a ‘Robot Constitution’ So Its Machines Won’t Kill You… Hopefully
Gif: Google On Thursday, Google announced a new “Robot Constitution” that will govern the AI that runs its upcoming army of intelligent machines. Based on Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of…
Google’s ChatGPT Competitor Will Have to Wait
Image: Felix-Lebelle (Shutterstock) Google is having a hard time catching up with OpenAI. Google’s competitor to ChatGPT will not be ready until early 2024, after previously telling some cloud customers…
Google’s new AI model means the outlook for weather forecasting is bright
A new AI-powered weather forecasting model can do the job with unprecedented accuracy and significantly faster than current technology. Built by Google DeepMind — the web giant’s AI-focused lab —…