Once regarded as a futuristic technology that would be exploited by robots to take over the world, artificial intelligence is rapidly growing in scope and capabilities. Automakers, for one, are putting it to use to create advanced concepts and production vehicles. And Italian supercar builder Maserati is harnessing the technology to set world records. This month, an AI-controlled Maserati MC20 reached 197.7 miles per hour at Kennedy Space Center. The Maserati obliterated the previous record set by an Indy Autonomous Challenge AV-21 racecar set in 2022 by nearly five full seconds, an impressive feat for a robot-driven car.

To facilitate the advancement of research in healthcare robots without human intervention or commands, we introduce the Autonomous Helping Challenge, along with a crowd-sourcing large-scale dataset. The goal is to create healthcare robots that possess the ability to determine when assistance is necessary, generate useful sub-tasks to aid in planning, carry out these plans through a physical robot, and receive feedback from the environment in order to generate new tasks and continue the process. Besides the general challenge in open-ended scenarios, Autonomous Helping focuses on three specific challenges: autonomous task generation, the gap between the current scene and static commonsense, and the gap between language instruction and the real world. Additionally, we propose Helpy, a potential approach to close the healthcare loop in the learning-free setting.

Japan is pushing for 50 locations with driverless services in place within three years, but fully autonomous vehicles remain nearly nonexistent in the country. So far, Fukui Prefecture is the only place with vehicles featuring level-4 capabilities -- defined when they can handle all driving tasks -- but only under specific conditions with the option for humans to take over. In the town of Eiheiji, the seven-seater golf carts are only allowed to navigate a 2 kilometer course. The limited availability of autonomous driving in Japan stands in stark contrast to the U.S. and China, where robotaxis already roam the streets in some cities. Waymo, backed by Google parent Alphabet, and General Motor's Cruise are testing driverless taxi services in San Francisco.

It seems the usefulness of ChatGPT knows no bounds as even brewers are using the tool to make new beer. German brand Beck's is one of a number of companies to have turned to the clever AI chatbot to make a futuristic beverage, called Beck's Autonomous. ChatGPT not only came up with the beer's recipe but also its packaging, name, advertising campaign and even a design for the beer's website. Beck's is the first commercial brewery to work with ChatGPT, although other independent brew houses in North America have already done the same. MailOnline gave Beck's Autonomous a try to see how it compares with the brand's flagship lager.

The internal combustion engine ruled the 20th century. In the 21st, electric motors and automation are reshaping the way stuff and people get around. Transportation workers aren't entirely thrilled about how it's going. On Tuesday, a caravan of big rig trucks roared into Sacramento as the Teamsters union rallied support for a bill banning driverless trucks in California. Meanwhile, newly expanded fleets of robotaxis tootled around San Francisco collecting fares, despite the objections of city leaders and unions concerned about the vehicles obstructing emergency vehicles and transit.

The Series C round was led by Freeman Group. Honda Motor Co., ACVC Partners and Amplo participated as well, along with publicly traded auto parts makers Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Sungwoo Hitech Co. Ltd. Helm.ai has raised a total of $78 million from investors to date.

Much like how varying sections of the brain are responsible for different functions of the body, LeCun suggests a model for spawning autonomous intelligence that would be composed of five separate, yet configurable modules. One of the most complex parts of the proposed architecture, the "world model module" would work to estimate the state of the world, as well as predict imagined actions and other world sequences, much like a simulator. But by using this single world model engine, knowledge about how the world operates can be easily shared across different tasks. In some ways, it might resemble memory.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to cause global disaster, but humans can take steps to prevent calamity, experts say. A new survey finds that more than a third of scientists doing AI research believe that the decisions made by AIs could trigger a debacle as bad or worse than nuclear war. The research highlights growing concern that AI could have unintended dangerous effects and produce many benefits. The way to stop computers from harming people? "Develop principles for safe and trustworthy AI," Michael Huth, the head of the Department of Computing at Imperial College London and a senior researcher at the AI company Xayn told Lifewire in an email interview. "This is already happening for deep learning applications, such image classifications, where one can verify, in principle, whether small input distortions can make the AI model misclassify a commercial airplane as an attacking fighter jet."

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to cause global disaster, but humans can take steps to prevent calamity, experts say.

How Autonomous driving chip market is increasing? Autonomous driving semiconductors are becoming increasingly important for automobiles as electrification and intelligence continue to advance. Among them, the level of intelligence has emerged as an essential factor that customers consider when purchasing a vehicle. The precision and efficiency of autonomous driving, are determined by the computing capabilities and the standardization process of the chip. Therefore, the increased demand for autonomous driving is driving the demand for advanced processes and will significantly increase the size of the advanced driver assistance systems (#ADAS) / #autonomousdriving chips (AD) market. The computing power of the ADAS / AD processors must meet the requirements of the corresponding autonomous driving level, defines by The Society of Automotive Engineers.