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Embodying an opposite-sex avatar alters perceptions of touch

A study on perception found what happens when choosing an opposite-sex avatar in a virtual reality environment.

Oxagon: the floating city

Oxagon is a floating city part of the NEOM project that aims to develop a big and structured smart and sustainable city.

Ameca: the robot with human-like expressions

Engineered Arts developed a robot with extremely realistic facial expressions and movements called Ameca but can't walk.

DeepMind’s Gopher language system is larger than GPT-3

DeepMind has developed its own language system called Gopher which is larger than GPT-3 and with better capabilities.

Understanding natural language is tricky for A.I.

Understanding natural language will be the next step for neural networks but it's not that easy. A book explains how it should be done.

Xenobots: robots that can reproduce

Researchers said they have discovered an entirely new form of biological reproduction different from any animal or plant known to science.

A.I. manipulation techniques exist but are not clear

Artificial Intelligence can learn to manipulate ever better but it's not clear how exactly it does and people can't even realize it.

Where is conversational A.I. going?

Some companies are developing algorithms able to reproduce human-like voices but also simulate existing ones to be used for A.I. assistants.

How A.I. can learn to evolve

Researchers have tested a new framework called DERL to make A.I. evolve similarly to an organism in a virtual environment.

Facebook’s metaverse and its cryptocurrency

Meta, Facebook's new name is focusing on the metaverse and the new cryptocurrency Diem (formerly Libra) with wallet Novi (formerly Calibra).

Robots will be able to touch

Facebook A.I.'s team is developing a touch sensing ability for robots but it will surely be implemented for its metaverse too.

A.I. bias may be dangerous

A.I. can be subjected to bias of different kinds that may lead to harmful results if we don't try to minimize these influences.