This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 8)

Developers Are Connecting Multiple AI Agents to Make More'Autonomous' AI Chloe Xiang Motherboard "Multiple developers are trying to create an'autonomous' system by stringing together multiple instances of OpenAI's large language model (LLM) GPT that can do a number of things on its own, such as execute a series of tasks without intervention, write, debug, and develop its own code, and critique and fix its own mistakes in written outputs." AI Is Running Circles Around Robotics Jacob Stern The Atlantic "AI's recent progress has been fueled to a significant extent by training larger models with greater computation power on larger data sets. Roboticists inclined toward this approach--hoping to apply the same machine-learning techniques that have proved so fruitful for large language models--run into problems." Tiny Hybrid Robot Can Identify, Capture a Single Cell Paul McClure New Atlas "Once the hybrid propulsion system was assembled, researchers were able to demonstrate the micro-robot's capabilities. They used it to capture a single red blood cell, cancer cells, and a single bacterium, demonstrating that the micro-robot could distinguish between a healthy cell and one that had been damaged by a drug or a dying cell and one that was undergoing a natural'suicide' process (apoptosis). Once captured, the cell can be moved to an external instrument for further analysis."