January 31, 2025

Robotics

Using drones to improve wildfire and forest management

In Episode 182 of The Robot Report Podcast, editors Mike Oitzman and Eugene Demaitre interview Erin Linebarger, co-founder and CEO of Robotics 88. Linebarger discusses the innovative use of drones in wildfire management, particularly through prescribed fire techniques. She also describes the genesis of the Boston-based company, the importance of data in fire management, the technology behind its drones, and the future of wildfire mitigation efforts globally. The Robotics88 drone is a custom-designed quadcopter outfitted

Mike Oitzman January 31, 2025

AR/VR

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang meets with Donald Trump on AI

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Nvidia confirmed that its CEO Jensen Huang met with U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss U.S. technology and AI leadership. “We appreciated the opportunity to meet with President Trump and discuss semiconductors and AI policy. Jensen and the president discussed the importance of strengthening U.S. technology and AI leadership,” said an Nvidia spokesperson. The meeting took

Dean Takahashi January 31, 2025

Robotics

Teradyne robotics group lays off 10% of global staff – The Robot Report

UR and MiR consolidated R&D facilities and headquarters in 2024. Source: Universal Robots Economic uncertainty has taken a toll on the robotics industry, including leading vendors. Teradyne Inc.’s robotics group laid off 10% of its global workforce this week. Teradyne owns Universal Robots A/S and Mobile Industrial Robots ApS, leading developers of collaborative robot arms and autonomous mobile robots, respectively. It’s unclear exactly how many employees were affected by the restructuring. However, Teradyne Robotics says

Eugene Demaitre January 31, 2025

Temporal Hierarchies of Regular Languages: Missing Arguments for the Intermediary Statements | HackerNoon

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Preliminaries 3 Temporal Hierarchies 4 Rating Maps 5 Optimal Imprints for TL(AT) 6 Conclusion and References Appendix A. Appendix to Section 2 & Appendix B. Appendix to Section 3 Appendix C. Appendix to Section 4 & Appendix D. Appendix to Section 5 Appendix C. Appendix to Section 4 Appendix D. Appendix to Section 5 This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. Authors: (1)

Hierarchy January 31, 2025

Fine-tuning Multimodal Embedding Models

Adapting CLIP to YouTube Data (with Python Code) Shaw Talebi · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 9 min read · Just now — This is the 4th article in a larger series on multimodal AI. In the previous post, we discussed multimodal RAG systems, which can retrieve and synthesize information from different data modalities (e.g. text, images, audio). There, we saw how we could implement such a system using CLIP. One issue with

Shaw Talebi January 31, 2025

Player First euthanizes MultiVersus amid ongoing live-service purge

Player First Games announced today that the upcoming season of its live-service fighting game MultiVersus will be its last. Season 5 will run from February 4 through May 30, after which the game will only be available to play offline. Starting today, players will no longer be able to spend money on in-game transactions, and after Season 5 ends, it…Read More

Rachel Kaser January 31, 2025

How Likely Is a Six Nations Grand Slam in 2025?

Quantifying uncertainty in sports fixtures Harry Snart · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · 10 hours ago — Photo by Thomas Serer on Unsplash Introduction For rugby fans the long wait is nearly over, like Christmas the Six Nations comes once a year to lift our spirits in the cold winter months. If you’re not very familiar with rugby, the Six Nations is an annual tournament where the top national

Harry Snart January 31, 2025

AR/VR

Beyond benchmarks: How DeepSeek-R1 and o1 perform on real-world tasks

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More DeepSeek-R1 has surely created a lot of excitement and concern, especially for OpenAI’s rival model o1. So, we put them to test in a side-by-side comparison on a few simple data analysis and market research tasks. To put the models on equal footing, we used Perplexity Pro Search, which now supports both o1 and R1. Our

Ben Dickson January 31, 2025

These Four DevOps Practices Aren’t Being Talked About Enough | HackerNoon

You know that moment when you confidently hit “deploy” at 4:59 p.m. on a Friday, and two seconds later, your phone explodes with alerts that production is on fire? LIKE LITERALLY ON FIRE! Or when a fellow senior dev quietly fixes prod but never mentions how—probably because they’re afraid that if AI learns their secrets, it’ll automate their entire job? (I’m only half-joking, of course.) Welcome to the chaotic, caffeine-fueled roller coaster we call DevOps.

Tiru Chillapalli January 31, 2025

Can Machines Dream? On the Creativity of Large Language Models

Member-only story |LLM|CREATIVITY|AI|HALLUCINATION| Exploring the Role of Hallucinations, Dependencies, and Imagination in AI Creativity Salvatore Raieli · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 11 min read · 4 hours ago — Image generated by the author using DALL-E Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. — Erich Fromm Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. — Edward de Bono Creativity is considered

Salvatore Raieli January 31, 2025