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When Covid-19 hit Spain last spring, the country quickly hit breaking point. In Madrid, doctors described an "avalanche" of patients as they practised "combat medicine" and emergency triage in intensive care units that were operating on a war-like footing. The first Covid-19 death was recorded on March 1. A month later, just under a thousand people were dying each day. Ambulances choked hospital approach roads and ice rinks were transformed into morgues.

ALICANTE has been named the Spanish base for the European artificial intelligence investigation centre. The provincial capital will now become part of the European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) network, which aims to give the competitive edge over the US and Asia in terms of IA, and which is made up of some 20 centres in 10 European nations and Israel. The news Alicante had been chosen was made public this week in Vancouver at a gathering of the international scientific community. Valencia government president Ximo Puig maintained the approval of Alicante's candidacy was the result of his administration's backing for the idea that "the Valencian Community, and Alicante in particular, becomes a reference point in southern Europe for investigation into new technology and in an inclusive IA, centred on people and which increases the productivity of the socio-economic structure." It is, Puig said, "a great opportunity to attract excellent talent to the Valencian Community and to Alicante, and well as to highlight the value of what we already have."

Recently, computer scientists have been working on teaching machines to do a wider range of tasks around the house. In a new paper spearheaded by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the University of Toronto, researchers demonstrate "VirtualHome," a system that can simulate detailed household tasks and then have artificial "agents" execute them, opening up the possibility of one day teaching robots to do such tasks. The team trained the system using nearly 3,000 programs of various activities, which are further broken down into subtasks for the computer to understand. A simple task like "making coffee," for example, would also include the step "grabbing a cup." The researchers demonstrated VirtualHome in a 3-D world inspired by the Sims video game.

BOSTON: Scientists are developing an artificial intelligence system that can get virtual agents to complete simple household chores in a simulated environment, paving the way for future robots to learn such tasks. The team from University of Toronto in Canada and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US trained the system called VirtualHome using nearly 3,000 programmes of various activities, which are further broken down into subtasks for the computer to understand. A simple task like "making coffee," for example, would also include the step "grabbing a cup." The researchers demonstrated VirtualHome in a 3D world inspired by Sims - a life-simulation video game. The team's AI agent can execute 1,000 of these interactions in the Sims-style world, with eight different scenes including a living room, kitchen, dining room, bedroom, and home office.

Perhaps the greatest outrage in modern robotics is the continued non-existence of the robot housekeeper. Is it really so much to ask for a robot that sweeps and mops and brings you pills on platters, like Rosie from The Jetsons? Actually, it kind of is a lot to ask: A robot that can do even the simplest of chores (save for vacuuming), like setting a table, is a huge challenge because such tasks require both dexterity and planning. But the scientists at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are working toward a world where robots make our coffee and set our tables. And that research is happening inside a simulation. Because if we want the machines to run our homes instead of leveling them, we have to train them up right.