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🧠 AI beats humans for the first time in physical skill game
🔍 Google Gemini is not even as good as GPT-3.5 Turbo, researchers find
🚀 Blue Origin’s New Shepard makes triumphant return flight
🚫 Adobe explains why it abandoned the Figma deal
🚤 Elon Musk wants to turn Cybertrucks into boats
🧠 AI beats humans for the first time in physical skill gameLINK
ETH Zurich researchers created an AI robot that beat the human world record in the labyrinth game, demonstrating advanced motor skills and learning abilities.
The robot, CyberRunner, used model-based reinforcement learning to improve and completed the labyrinth in 14.48 seconds after 6.06 hours of practice.
The project will be made open source, allowing anyone to conduct AI research with a modest budget, and potentially enabling large-scale, global experiments.
🔍 Google Gemini is not even as good as GPT-3.5 Turbo, researchers findLINK
Google's Gemini Pro, designed to compete with ChatGPT, performs worse on many tasks compared to OpenAI's older model, GPT-3.5 Turbo, according to new research.
Despite Google claiming superior performance in its own research, an independent study showcases Gemini Pro falling behind GPT models in areas like reasoning, mathematics, and programming.
However, Google's Gemini Pro excels in language translation across several languages, despite its generally lower performance in other AI benchmarks.
🚀 Blue Origin’s New Shepard makes triumphant return flightLINK
Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket successfully launched a year after a failure, carrying 33 research payloads and 38,000 digital postcards.
The rocket reached 66.5 miles up and completed its mission with the booster and capsule safely landing back on Earth.
Following a mission failure in 2022 due to an engine nozzle issue, corrective actions were taken, leading to a triumphant return to flight.
🚫 Adobe explains why it abandoned the Figma dealLINK
Adobe dropped its $20 billion bid to buy Figma because it couldn't convince European regulators it wouldn't reduce future competition.
EU and UK regulatory bodies flagged concerns, with the EU stating the deal might lessen market competition globally.
Despite no current direct competition, Adobe and Figma backed out, citing antitrust laws focusing on potential future competition.
🚤 Elon Musk wants to turn Cybertrucks into boatsLINK
Tesla's Elon Musk proposes a modification package for the Cybertruck, enabling it to travel on water for at least 100 meters, with upgrades mostly needed for cabin door seals. Musk's vision is supported by Tesla’s VP of Vehicle Engineering, suggesting potential enhancements like extra buoyancy and an outboard motor to transform the Cybertruck into a boat. While the concept of a water-traversing Cybertruck is novel, no official timeline for its release has been given, and current models are not equipped for water travel.
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American drugstore banned from using facial recognition software after falsely identifying shoplifters.LINK
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