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tl;dr: A lot of people who care about averting nuclear war got together and wrote an entirely new document, The Rome Declaration, specifically to avert the disaster scenario of an AI gaining control over nuclear weapons. The declaration seeks more responsible AI development. It draws a red line at unmonitored recursive self-improvement and calls for a coordinated slowdown using internal and…
I spent about a year building the software and hardware for a fully robotic version of the classic wooden Labyrinth game - the one with a marble guided through a tilting maze controlled by two knobs - from the ground up. It was an exercise in learning, patience, and perseverance.
This is Mabu - a robot that sits near my front door, and whose voice and actions are controlled by an AI chatbot.
This is Mabu.
I just finished V1 of WhyTorch, a visual explainer for basic PyTorch functions. It’s fully open source and MIT licensed, too.
Vassar Robotics’ Hacker News announcement of their new robot arm was poorly timed. At least, it was poorly timed with respect to optimizing my bank account balance. Not one day after I coughed up 300ish dollars for the electronics for my own SO-101 arm, including an extra ~50% for import fees, I learned about Vassar’s Navrim robot, which offers the same functionality, but at a significant…
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Originally published on ROS Guru (https://ros.guru, now defunct), July 15, 2018.
Originally published on ROS Guru (https://ros.guru, now defunct), February 12, 2018.
Originally published on ROS Guru, January 21, 2018.