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Du Qiongfang Humanoid robot manufacturer AgiBot in Shanghai unveiled on Tuesday its latest humanoid robot model which achieves nearly human-like mobility such as riding a bicycle and balancing on a hoverboard. With its prompt responding competence in interaction with users, the robot showcases the perfect integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and humanoid robot technology, presenting a great application potential in scenarios such as elderly care services and family companionship. In a video released by Peng Zhihui, co-founder of AgiBot or Zhiyuan Robotics, the 1.3-meter tall and 33.8-kilogram Lingxi X2 humanoid robot showcases its excellent sports, interaction and operation competence. It…
Laura Bicker Head in hands, eight-year-old Timmy muttered to himself as he tried to beat a robot powered by artificial intelligence at a game of chess. But this was not an AI showroom or laboratory – this robot was living on a coffee table in a Beijing apartment, along with Timmy. The first night it came home, Timmy hugged his little robot friend before heading to bed. He doesn't have a name for it – yet. "It's like a little teacher or a little friend," the boy said, as he showed his mum the next move he was considering on…
Kayla Jimenez For Lisa Parry, a 12th grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT — which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students could decide on what to write for their book report on "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal," Parry told them to ask the AI chatbot to craft a topic about the fast-food industry. Parry's class had finished reading the book and she didn't want to read another essay about the effects of fast food on the human body, a common…
Megan Sauer You might think OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, head of the company that makes ChatGPT, uses artificial intelligence chatbots in highly complex ways. Not necessarily, according to Altman himself. “I use [AI] in the boring ways,” he told Wharton organizational psychologist Adam Grant’s “ReThinking” podcast, in an episode that published last month. “I use it for like, ‘Help me process all of this email’ or ’Help me summarize this document.” Altman is in good company: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose company makes many of the high-powered computer chips that power AI large language models, primarily uses chatbots to help…
Renee Onque Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, there has been a steady increase in the number of healthcare workers quitting their jobs. And though the industry is focused on hiring, the burden on the remaining doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals is still a heavy one. “We have fewer and fewer people in healthcare. We saw a huge attrition of doctors and nurses post-Covid, and our patients and our community’s getting older,” says Nishit Patel, the vice president and chief medical informatics officer at Tampa General Hospital. “The math doesn’t work unless you have something that…
Jeney Kleeman Noland Arbaugh’s life changed in a fraction of a second in June 2016. He was a 22-year-old student, working at a kids’ summer camp in upstate New York, when he went swimming in a lake. He can’t tell me exactly what happened, but thinks one of his friends must have accidentally struck him very hard in the side of his head as they ran into the water and plunged beneath the surface. When he woke up face down in the water, unable to move or breathe, Noland immediately knew he was paralysed. But he didn’t panic. He felt…
Leading generative artificial intelligence company OpenAI unveiled a new AI tool on Sunday named "Deep Research," designed to perform multi-step online research for complex tasks. The tool leverages a specialized version of OpenAI's upcoming o3 model, tailored for web browsing and data analysis. Users can input a prompt, and OpenAI's ChatGPT will search, analyze, and synthesize various online sources—including text, images, and PDFs—to generate a detailed report comparable to the work of a research analyst. OpenAI highlighted the tool's efficiency, stating, "It accomplishes in tens of minutes what would take a human many hours." However, the company also noted that…
Suri Nuthalapati Key Takeaways Reliable data is the cornerstone of successful AI-driven decision-making and innovation. Data governance, modern architectures and automation ensure data quality and reliability for AI. AI-powered insights depend on breaking silos, mitigating bias and prioritizing data ethics. As AI transforms various industries, its effectiveness hinges on a single, vital factor: reliable data. Without a solid data foundation, even the most sophisticated AI systems can struggle to deliver results. Data is the lifeblood of AI. Machine learning models, predictive analytics and other AI-driven tools rely on accurate, timely and relevant data to function effectively. Poor-quality data can lead…
An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting. “I’m superwoman,” Towana Looney told The Associated Press, laughing about outpacing family members on long walks around New York City as she continues her recovery. “It’s a new take on life.” Looney’s vibrant recovery is a morale boost in the quest to make animal-to-human transplants a reality. Only four other Americans have received hugely experimental transplants of gene-edited pig organs – two heartsand two kidneys –…
Renowned visionary English physician William Harvey wrote in 1651 about how our blood contains all the secrets of life. "And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body as being prior to it or more excellent," he wrote. "So that from this we may perceive the causes not only of life in general … but also of longer or shorter life, of sleeping and waking, of skill, of strength and so forth." Kevin Watt, team leader of the Heart Regeneration and Disease Laboratory at the…
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