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Household robots are coming 'soon'
PLUS: OpenAI non-profit status under fire
AI TECH INQUIRY STUDIO
January 12, 2024
Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
The Science Fiction vision of humanoid robots in every home? It may be here sooner than we think.
OpenAI-backed 1X Technologies is sprinting towards that goal with its NEO bots, built to handle household tasks like a human — and reportedly ready for home use ‘soon’. Let’s take a look…
In today’s AI TECH STUDIO:
AI consumer robots are coming soon
OpenAI’s non-profit status under scrutiny
How to create a ChatGPT hotkey on Macs
Researchers spot new links between fingerprints using AI
7 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs
More AI & tech news
Read time: 4 minutes
1X TECHNOLOGIES
Image source: 1X
The Rundown: Norwegian AI robotics startup 1X Technologies just raised $100M in new funding — with plans to have their consumer robot ready for home use ‘soon‘.
The details:
The new $100M investment follows a previous $23.5M Series A round last March led by OpenAI Startup Fund I LP.
1X Technologies' first android, a two-wheeled model called EVE, already performs functions in factories and as a security patrol.
The newer NEO model is designed to walk and move like a human, assisting with household chores.
1X’s VP of AI posted a (now-deleted) tweet that NEO models would be available for purchase ‘soon’ for home use.
Why it matters: As hype builds and the competition continues to grow, it’s becoming increasingly likely that humanoid robots will be a big part of our lives sooner rather than later — potentially revolutionizing both the home and workplace.
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AI TRAINING
The Rundown: You may have seen the news that Microsoft is adding an AI key to their latest PC keyboards. But in the meantime, here is how to set up your own hotkey on Macs to quickly access ChatGPT with a quick shortcut.
Thank you to Jason Demorest for sharing this tutorial.
Step-by-step:
Open Automator from your finder. Click the dropdown under type and select ‘Quick Action.’ Change the ‘Workflow receives’ section to ‘no input’ in ‘any application.’
Drag and drop ‘Run AppleScript’ into the window on the right, and replace the placeholder script with the one below:
tell application "Google Chrome" if it is not running then activate delay 1 end if open location "https://chat.openai.com/" end tell
Save the service (name it something like ChatGPT Open). Navigate to the Apple logo → System Settings → Privacy and Security → Accessibility.
Click on the + sign, and add Automator, Script Editor, and System Events.
Navigate to System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts and click Services. Open the dropdown for General and select the shortcut name you saved the original file as. Double-click on the right side and choose the hotkey you’d like to use (ex: Shift+Option+Command+G).
Open Google Chrome and go to chat.openai.com. Hold the command and press D to save a bookmark on the page. Now test your hotkey from step 4, which should open ChatGPT with a simple key function on your keyboard!
AI RESEARCH
Image source: Columbia Engineering
The Rundown: Columbia researchers just developed an AI system that can match different fingerprints from the same person with 77% accuracy, challenging the long-held forensics belief that prints are always unique.
The details:
The system analyzed 60,000 fingerprint image pairs from a public government database to uncover new patterns.
The AI relies on the shape and curvature of swirls and loops in prints' centers rather than traditional ridge details.
The study achieved an accuracy of 77% for single pairs, increasing significantly when presented with multiple pairs.
Why it matters: This discovery not only challenges a fundamental forensic principle — but also opens new avenues for forensic analysis that could potentially impact legal cases. It’s likely not the last AI-led discovery that will overturn conventional scientific beliefs.
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AI entrepreneur Allie K. Miller revealed her 2023 AI Awards, naming The Rundown AI as the top news feed of the year! 🏆 🥳
OpenAI is reportedly offering news publishers ‘as little as’ $1M to $5M annually to license copyrighted articles for training models like ChatGPT.
AI-powered search engine Perplexity announced a $73.6M Series B raise at a $520M valuation, with new investors including NVIDIA and Jeff Bezos.
Logan Kilpatrick, Developer Relations Lead at OpenAI, shared that the platform’s GPT builder is a GPT itself, providing behind-the-scenes information to help users build custom bots.
A new study polling over 2,700 AI researchers found that 58% estimate a 5% chance of AI causing human extinction.
Elvis Evolution will use AI and holographic projection to bring a digital Elvis Presley to the London stage later this year for AI-generated performances.
Google DeepMind unveiled new robotics research, including AutoRT for data collection, SARA-RT for faster transformers, and RT-Trajectory for better motion generalization.
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