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Move aside, Usain Bolt! Watch as a humanoid robot dubbed 'Superman' sets a new world speed record - hitting 28.3mph

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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Chinese company unveils new 'Superman' humanoid robot

Al Jazeera

Chinese company unveils new'Superman' humanoid robot Chinese company unveils new'Superman' humanoid robot Chinese start-up Unitree has unveiled its new humanoid robot called'Superman', which it says can jump up to 2 metres and run 100m faster than any human has. Can Trump limit birthright citizenship? Trump says talking to North Korea's Kim makes the south safer


Two Causally Related Needles in a Video Haystack

Neural Information Processing Systems

Properly evaluating the ability of Video-Language Models (VLMs) to understand long videos remains a challenge. We propose a long-context video understanding benchmark, CAUSAL2NEEDLES, that assesses two crucial abilities insufficiently addressed by existing benchmarks: (1) extracting information from two separate locations (two needles) in a long video and understanding them jointly, and (2) modeling the world in terms of cause and effect in human behaviors.


'Supergirl' pre-release tracking looks disastrously bad for Hollywood after lead actress' bizarre comments

FOX News

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About the Unreal

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This paper introduces a framework for representing information about entities that do not exist or may never exist, such as those involving fictional entities, blueprints, simulations, and future scenarios. Traditional approaches that introduce "dummy instances" or rely on modal logic are criticized, and a proposal is defended in which such cases are modeled using the intersections of actual types rather than specific non existent tokens. The paper positions itself within the Basic Formal Ontology and its realist commitments, emphasizing the importance of practical, implementable solutions over purely metaphysical or philosophical proposals, arguing that existing approaches to non existent entities either overcommit to metaphysical assumptions or introduce computational inefficiencies that hinder applications. By developing a structured ontology driven approach to unreal patterns, the paper aims to provide a useful and computationally viable means of handling references to hypothetical or non existent entities.


Two Causally Related Needles in a Video Haystack

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Properly evaluating the ability of Video-Language Models (VLMs) to understand long videos remains a challenge. We propose a long-context video understanding benchmark, Causal2Needles, that assesses two crucial abilities insufficiently addressed by existing benchmarks: (1) extracting information from two separate locations (two needles) in a long video and understanding them jointly, and (2) modeling the world in terms of cause and effect in human behaviors. Causal2Needles evaluates these abilities using noncausal one-needle, causal one-needle, and causal two-needle questions. The most complex question type, causal two-needle questions, require extracting information from both the cause and effect events from a long video and the associated narration text. To prevent textual bias, we introduce two complementary question formats: locating the video clip containing the answer, and verbal description of a visual detail from that video clip. Our experiments reveal that models excelling on existing benchmarks struggle with causal 2-needle questions, and the model performance is negatively correlated with the distance between the two needles. These findings highlight critical limitations in current VLMs. The dataset is available at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/causal2needles/Causal2Needles


The Simplistic Moral Lessons of "Superman"

The New Yorker

The world may be going to hell, but the writer and director James Gunn has graced it with a sunshine "Superman." The most recent installments in the franchise--Zack Snyder's diptych "Man of Steel" (2013) and "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" (2016)--had a hectic, howling, near-apocalyptic sense of tragedy, but Gunn's vision is bright, chipper, and sentimental. A title card announces that Superman has endured his first defeat, and the hero (played by David Corenswet) is shown tumbling from the sky and slamming with a sickening thud onto the surface of a frozen wasteland, where he lies prostrate, spitting red blood on the snow. Fear not: no sooner does the wounded combatant put his lips together and whistle for Krypto than his faithful and frisky canine companion arrives and drags his master back to the Fortress of Solitude. There, loyal robots examine the patient and, by exposing him to sunlight, begin to heal him.


Video Game Adaptations Could Keep Beating Marvel at the Box Office in 2024

WIRED

One of the more amusing TikToks that followed the announcement of the forthcoming Legend of Zelda movie riffs on a scene from the animated series Drawn Together. In it, the blue-caped Captain Hero sits in a wheelchair at the bottom of a staircase next to the text "Zelda fans when the movie was announced." One beat later, the words "it's live action" appear, and Captain Hero screams. Another beat, then "it's produced by Avi Arad (Morbius)" flashes up, this time to a louder scream. Finally, "It was written by the writer of Batman v Superman, Rise of Skywalker, and Jurassic Worlld [sic]," and Captain Hero unleashes one last wounded wail.


Modern Tech Can't Shield Your Secret Identity

Communications of the ACM

Most comic book superheroes have a secret identity, usually to protect their friends and family from retribution. However, today's computer technology would make it impossible for a superhero to maintain their secret identity. Take Spider-Man, who has a habit of diving into an alley to change into costume. However, video cameras are pervasive in New York City, which could easily capture video of him donning his mask. The New York City Police Department operates over 15,000 surveillance cameras,1 but there are thousands more Webcams controlled by residents and commercial entities.


Scary smart, why we are all Jonathan and Marta Kent (raising Superman)

#artificialintelligence

The other way is to recognise that quantum computing itself is literally in its infancy and that if the same laws of accelerating returns apply to them, then that massive jump of performance will itself double and multiply very rapidly. It is widely believed that the rate at which our tech will advance when powered by quantum computers will be double as exponential as what we have seen with Moore's law. Quantum computers will become 65,000-fold more powerful in those short five years. This is 65,000 times more powerful than what is already 1.5 trillion times faster than the world's fastest computer. AlphaGo Zero won 1,000 to zero against StockFish, the AI that held the world championship in chess.