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Meet Scotland's Whisky-Sniffing Robot Dog

WIRED

Inside Dewar's cavernous whisky warehouses, man's best mechanical friend--a Boston Dynamics robot dog with an ethanol sensor for a nose--is on the hunt for leaky barrels. Wooden barrels are what make the magic happen in your favorite bottle of whisky . At Bacardi Limited, the world's largest privately held spirits company, barrel leakage is a massive headache. Consider the company's Dewar's blended Scotch whisky brand (just one of the dozens it owns). Most of the time, Dewar's will have over 100 warehouses full of aging barrels of whisky, 25,000 casks in each one.

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British walkers are urged to look out for meteorite fragments after space rock exploded over Scotland in a dramatic fireball

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Powerful moment Charlie Kirk's widow Erika holds hands with Usha Vance on his final journey on Air Force Two REVEALED: The truth about the'vanishing plane' five miles from Charlie Kirk's assassination... as private jet owner is unmasked Charlie Kirk's incredible welcome to young gay man who wants to join his conservative movement And the armed militia mystery. FBI terror hunter blows the lid on search for Charlie Kirk's assassin... and the vital clue cops are desperate for Kristin Chenoweth fans surprised over her grieving comment on Charlie Kirk's final video about abortion Charlotte Tilbury reveals the secrets behind the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders' flawless look Go inside the killing that has rocked America - on Daily Mail's podcast The Assassination of Charlie Kirk Charlie Kirk's gesture to my son tells you everything about the man: JILLIAN MICHAELS on her unlikely camaraderie with the conservative giant Joe Rogan is speechless as he learns of Charlie Kirk's assassination on his podcast McDonald's fans disgusted by what customer thinks is'parasite' found in Filet-O-Fish Walkers and hikers have an exciting opportunity to find meteorite fragments that scattered over Scotland this summer, scientists say. The bright meteor was witnessed by some Scots as it streaked across the sky in the early hours of Thursday July 3. It is believed to have exploded over northern Scotland, with the'fall zone' straddling Loch Treig in Lochaber, Highland. The aerial event was captured on some cameras and shared on social media, showing a big yellow spark soaring through the dark sky.


Edify Image: High-Quality Image Generation with Pixel Space Laplacian Diffusion Models

NVIDIA, null, :, null, Atzmon, Yuval, Bala, Maciej, Balaji, Yogesh, Cai, Tiffany, Cui, Yin, Fan, Jiaojiao, Ge, Yunhao, Gururani, Siddharth, Huffman, Jacob, Isaac, Ronald, Jannaty, Pooya, Karras, Tero, Lam, Grace, Lewis, J. P., Licata, Aaron, Lin, Yen-Chen, Liu, Ming-Yu, Ma, Qianli, Mallya, Arun, Martino-Tarr, Ashlee, Mendez, Doug, Nah, Seungjun, Pruett, Chris, Reda, Fitsum, Song, Jiaming, Wang, Ting-Chun, Wei, Fangyin, Zeng, Xiaohui, Zeng, Yu, Zhang, Qinsheng

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We introduce Edify Image, a family of diffusion models capable of generating photorealistic image content with pixel-perfect accuracy. Edify Image utilizes cascaded pixel-space diffusion models trained using a novel Laplacian diffusion process, in which image signals at different frequency bands are attenuated at varying rates. Edify Image supports a wide range of applications, including text-to-image synthesis, 4K upsampling, ControlNets, 360 HDR panorama generation, and finetuning for image customization.


Transformer Based Geocoding

Solaz, Yuval, Shalumov, Vitaly

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In this paper, we formulate the problem of predicting a geolocation from free text as a sequence-to-sequence problem. Using this formulation, we obtain a geocoding model by training a T5 encoder-decoder transformer model using free text as an input and geolocation as an output. The geocoding model was trained on geo-tagged wikidump data with adaptive cell partitioning for the geolocation representation. All of the code including Rest-based application, dataset and model checkpoints used in this work are publicly available.


How do you teach a machine right from wrong? Addressing the morality within Artificial Intelligence

#artificialintelligence

In his new novel, Machines Like Me, the novelist Ian McEwan tells the story, set in an alternate history in England in 1982, of a man who buys a humanoid robot. This triumph of artificial intelligence is "a creation myth made real," he writes, but also "a monstrous act of self-love." Part companion and part servant, the robot named Adam is "the ultimate plaything, the dream of ages, the triumph of humanism -- or its angel of death." One of the first things Adam says when he is switched on is "I don't feel right," and, typically for cautionary tales about robots, it only gets worse from there. Like much of the frontier thinking on the morality of artificial intelligence, McEwan's unsettling vision comes from fiction, not science.