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Deer Island processes an average of 360 million gallons of wastewater daily for the greater Boston area Walking through the primary treatment tanks, secondary clarifiers, and the i…

There is a facet of intelligence that is missing from ChatGPT: embodiment. Crows, elephants, and chimpanzees have behaviors associated with this facet of intelligence, without havi…

What does it really mean for a machine to be intelligent? Despite the incredible linguistic fluency of LLMs, something profound is still missing.

Yes, but that is why it costs so much to deploy industrial robots. There are many applications where it is technically possible to automate today, but not economical, due to the co…

We are faster than a CUDA graphics card. You get a win from designing custom hardware specifically for this task so that you don't have to load stuff on and off the GPU. The fastes…

I think that's definitely true, in terms of net jobs. (But probably not always true.) However it will lead to disruption - the old jobs won't be the same as the new jobs. This disr…

I agree, but technical advancements can also lead to a transfer of wealth from worker to capital owner. For example, there are roughly two million long-haul truck drivers in the US…

I agree with that so much that I spend all my time working on robots. I am not saying we should stop automating. More the latter, that we should work toward applying the technology…

We cannot do this today, but this capability, of using language, is one we are actively working towards. Eventually, you can imagine an AI that can engage in a dialog like this one…

I was thinking more like the Renaissance fair today. You'd visit the fair that recreates a hack-a-thon in the late 90s. At the fair, you'd see the old programmer at his terminal, c…