Very impressive, especially when you think they can program the routines, but the droids have to balance and plan the moves in real time.

But I can't help thinking of Terminator…

Neil

Thats briiliant. What will AI think in a thousand years when it looks back at this?

When linking videos websites or documents will people plase add a line explaining what the subject is. It is only good maners and only takes a few seconds. People may have seen it before, have religious or other objections to the content, all sorts of reasons for not wanting to waste their time on it.

Peak has the right idea at lesat giving a hint of the content.

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Bit late for bah humbug !

Thanks for the link Michael. It's made my ( New ) Year!

Now, I wonder if the offer dancing lessons?

Pero

Have a look at this…

**LINK**

CUBLI from ETH Zurich. They also have videos of drones balancing long poles, throwing them in the air, and catching them.

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Michael

If I could do that leads or batteries or what I would be a very happy man !! Thanks for sharing and it really shows the progress of technology to date. I remember a James Bod film where there was a tracking system that displayed the target on a visual display system and I thought "Yeah really" yet a few years later along came GPS and map tracking. I really wonder what the future holds in the development of technology especially with the introduction of Ai etc,

Thanks and stay safe.

Martin

When people talk about AI they are normally thinking of it as operating in real time where the limiting factor is the speed of the underlying hardware.

For example, most phones etc. now have speech recognition. The underlying computational models for this such as hidden Markov modelling have been around over thirty years (I was referencing declassified DARPA papers on this from the late eighties when studying for my computing degree). At the time even Intel 486 processors or RISC based workstations did not have the speed to translate continuous speech in real time.

Although AI has undoubtedly moved on since my degree days, its progress cannot match the progress made in hardware. The results of two experiments announced last month illustrate beautifully the difference fast hardware can make.

1. A laser based quantum computer has completed a calculation in 4 minutes. Doesn't sound much until you compare it to the time a traditional computer would have taken of 2.56 billion years (that's roughly half the age of the planet Earth.)

Link to article explaining the paper Quantum device performs 2.6 billion years of computation in 4 minutes

Link to original paper Quantum computational advantage using photons

2. An experiment has almost instantaneously transferred data over 44km using off the shelf hardware coupled with teleportation (and you thought Star Trek was just SciFi!).

Link to article explaining the paper long-distance 'quantum teleportation' for the first time

Link to the original paper Teleportation Systems Toward a Quantum Internet

Reminiscent of the old story of the Texan bragging to the Irishman how it takes him 3 days to ride a horse around his ranch. The Irishman replies "I had a horse like that once"

There is a huge difference between a simulation of intelligence and the real thing. Pubs are a good observational platform.

pgk