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Musk unveils new $20K robot... as AI experts call the Optimus bot a 'complete and utter scam'
After months of tweets and teases, Elon Musk Tesla's new humanoid Optimus robot was slammed by AI and robotics experts during its unveiling on Friday. Despite the high-octane lights and music that surrounded it, the company's human-shaped robot did not deliver bells and whistles at its AI Day presentation in Palo Alto, California. 'None of this is cutting edge,' tweeted robotics expert Cynthia Yeung. 'Hire some PhDs and go to some robotics conferences @Tesla.' The robot was meant to be the star for the tech giant's conference, as Musk claimed it would'be a fundamental transformation for civilization as we know it.'
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How the world wars of the 21st century may begin
The COVID-19 pandemic is a train wreck in slow motion. This crash could turn out to be the spark that ignites a whole-of-global-society meltdown like in the world wars of the 20th century. Those were conflicts within humanity. Few may have recognised it yet, but the world wars of the 21st century have already begun and unlike those of the past century, the new conflicts are between humanity and nature. The COVID-19 pandemic is nature's first global-scale assault on the uber-modern human world.
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How AI Can Help Us Understand, Or Radically Misinterpret, the World
Already, Americans are learning not to believe what they see on TV--but new developments in artificial intelligence could give them even more cause for concern. At the moment, digitally manipulating an image is very possible, but time-consuming, expensive and often quite ineffective. Brand new AI systems, however, can generate "fake" videos near-instantaneously, using advanced neural networks that "translate" ordinary circumstances into extraordinary ones. A street freckled with house-cats is suddenly beset by cougars. A Hawaiian street scene is covered in snow.
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Watch: Drone Footage Shows Greece Underwater Amid Flooding
Widespread devastation in Athens, Greece, was depicted Thursday in new drone footage following heavy flooding and violent storms. The destruction has left many surrounding areas underwater in what Mandra Mayor Yianna Krikouki called a "biblical" flood. Several regions in Greece have faced inclement weather for about a week. The situation escalated when heavy rain resulted in severe flooding Wednesday night. The death toll has risen to at least 16, and at least four civilians are reportedly still missing.
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The Factory of the Future - Disruption
Manufacturing plays an essential role in the economies of both advanced and developing nations. According to a recent McKinsey Report it now accounts for approximately 16 percent of global GDP and 14 percent of employment. Changes in consumer demand and advances in technology bring both challenges and opportunities for the sector. How are business adapting to meet these challenges and which technologies are shaping the factory of the future? Factory tech today Factories have already adopted new technologies with a view to increasing productivity and reducing costs.