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…

Curated Links of the Visionary and the Vrot — A Giant Googly Eye on a Giant Robot The “DIXIE Showgirl” who danced in front of an atomic bomb explosion The Time that the US Army Deployed Pianos to the Battlefield Does Earth Have a New Quasi-Moon? Asteroid mining startup AstroForge readies first mission Reality or Illusion? The Human Battle…

Researchers have made a new robot hand that is sensitive enough to hold and manipulate not only spheres but also irregularly shaped objects. And, potentially, soft objects. That screenshot may appear to be a gripper holding a tiny disco ball, but it is in fact a giant robot hand holding…

Curated Links of the Uber and the Unexpected — DART VADAR harnesses the force of enzymes for better RNA drugs Optical illusion turns Glen Affric hills into icebergs Physicists perform first-ever measurement of ‘time reflection’ in microwaves Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object “a first of its kind of a case wherein this plant fungus caused disease in…

Merging Two Cognitive Science Theories with Affordances — There are two freaky theories of perception which are very interesting to me not just for artificial intelligence, but also from a point of view of interfaces, affordances and philosophy of mind: Alva Noë’s enactive approach to perception. Donald D. Hoffman’s interface theory of perception. What are these and could…

Curated Links of the Tremendous and the Titillating — This installation enables a live plant to control a machete GPT-4 debuts and Google beats Microsoft in race to add generative A.I. to consumer office tools GPT-4’s successes, and GPT-4’s failures: How GPT-4 fits into the larger tapestry of the quest for artificial general intelligence Bank Men, Freed: Ed Zitron…

Curated Links of the Sus and the Shocking — ‘Unspeakable botch’: Spain spends €258 million on trains that are too big for its tunnels Man punches, fights self-driving car in San Francisco, loses People keep anthropomorphizing AI: Here’s why Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion AI Chatbots Aren’t ‘Alive.’ …

I’ve posted some skepticism of the new AI models that are getting all the press — and all the money — in the past year. I said in “When AI Phones It In” that a lot of the fear of jobs being taken away is vaporous. And in “The AI…

Curated Links of the Remarkable and the Ridiculous — Live-caption glasses let deaf people read conversations using augmented reality Human Error Is the Most Common Cause of Train Accidents Workers Are Dying in the EV Industry’s ‘Tainted’ City This New Breed of Generator Can Run on Almost Any Fuel Across the pond: New car market defies national trend to…