AI News Roundup

1. SanctuaryaI unveiled the seventh generation of its general purpose robot Phoenix. The latest generation robot and its AI control system, Carbon™, draw even closer to that of a person, with wide ranging improvements to both the hardware and AI software. The announcement comes less than 12 months after Sanctuary AI’s sixth generation robot. The …

Read more

Figure AI Bot Demo – Understands Speech, Sees and Uses Objects

Figure AI humanoid bot responds to questions about what it sees and correctly identifies an apple on plate, dishes and the person. The humanoid bot then acts to use those objects to perform a request. This showed basic reasoning capability. Figure AI was recently funded with $675 million by Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, …

Read more

AI Expert Says AGI Will Arrive December 2024

Alan Thompson is an AI expert who is closely tracking progress to AGI. His definition is: Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a machine capable of understanding the world as well as—or better than—any human, in practically every field, including the ability to interact with the world via physical embodiment. And the short version: ‘AGI is …

Read more

UBTECH Humanoid Bots In China EV Factories

UBTECH’s humanoid robot Walker S was introduced into the assembly line of electric car maker NIO’s advanced vehicle manufacturing center, as an “intern” assisting in the car production. Walker S is the first bipedal humanoid robot to complete a specific workstation’s tasks on a mobile EV production line. UBTECH humanoid robot will also be placed …

Read more

Elon and Tesla Will Inevitably Transition to All-in Focus on Teslabot

Eventually, all that will matter to Tesla and others is changing civilization with Teslabot. All that will matter is the race to improve and use AGI and humanoid bot. This will be the driving purpose and generator of value for civilization and human economy. In chess – A forced move is one that a player …

Read more

Google Deepmind LLM Solves Major Open Question in Math. AI Advancing Science is Huge Progress to AGI

Google’s Gemini LLMs (Large Language Model) produced a new math discoveries and solves real-world problems. This is a significant step to AGI. The AI is speeding up progress in math and science. This is the first time a new discovery has been made for challenging open problems in science or mathematics using LLMs. FunSearch discovered …

Read more