AI, Robotics, Nukes, Neuro, Art & More
AI
Wendy’s is working with Google to test an AI-powered drive-thru
Don’t trust AI to talk accurately about itself: Bard wasn’t trained on Gmail
Stop Treating AI Models Like People
Delimiters won’t save you from prompt injection
AI and Aaronson’s Law of Dark Irony
Why No One Wants AI Ethics Anymore: And what they should do to recover the credibility they’ve lost
Person-in-WiFi: Fine-grained Person Perception using WiFi
Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging & Diagnostics: Are we there yet?
Melanie Mitchell on ARC:
- Why the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus is interesting and important for AI
- On Evaluating Understanding and Generalization in the ARC Domain
Robotics
RobOstrich mimicks the musculoskeletal structure of ostriches for high flexibility
walking bedside lamp: “Now you won’t be afraid to wake up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom”
Wheeled Robot Measures Leaf Angles to Help Breed Better Corn Plants
Modular Morphing Lattices for Large-Scale Underwater Continuum Robotic Structures
Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta 11.4.1
I thought we already knew this but… Many-Legged Robots Can Traverse Difficult Landscapes

Energy
Is Low-Level Radiation Good For Us?
Westinghouse unveils small modular nuclear reactor
The Big Lie About Nuclear Waste
Hyundai demonstrates prototype hydrogen-powered excavator
The methane myth: Why cows aren’t responsible for climate change
Neuro
Disgust Reactions as a Bridge Between the Immune and Nervous Systems
Misc
Fake Publications in Biomedical Science: Red-flagging Method Indicates Mass Production
A one-two punch against pancreatic cancer
Impacts of speciation and extinction measured by an evolutionary decay clock
NASA Study Helps Explain Limit-Breaking Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources
Does Density Increase Housing Prices? Even if it does, allow more housing!
Art
An urge to preserve game history brought a 40-year vet back to the industry
Artists must be allowed to make bad work
People Can’t Believe This Photo of a Bird Isn’t Photoshopped or AI-Generated