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Unveiling the True Vision of Robots: Beyond Steel, Embracing Chemistry

Czech playwright Karel Čapek invented the word "robot" in 1921, but was unhappy with its evolution to denote mechanical entities. In a newly translated article, Čapek expresses frustration with how his original vision for robots was being subverted, arguing that they should be based on science, not technology.

Unveiling Hidden Patterns: Implementing Spectral Clustering from Scratch in Python

Spectral clustering, a complex form of machine learning, transforms data into a reduced-dimension form and applies k-means clustering. Implementing spectral clustering from scratch in Python was a challenge, but the results were identical to the scikit-learn module, with the most difficult part being computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the normalized Laplacian matrix.

Unifying Perception, Planning, and Control: The Future of Autonomous Robotics

The article explores the use of lightweight hierarchical vision transformers in autonomous robotics, highlighting the effectiveness of a shared trunk concept for multi-task learning. It also discusses the emergence of large multimodal models and their potential to create a unified architecture for end-to-end autonomous driving solutions.

Meta's Zuckerberg Downplays AI Dangers, Pushes for Open Source AGI

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is working on building "general intelligence" for AI assistants and plans to open source it responsibly, bringing together research groups FAIR and GenAI. While not explicitly mentioning "artificial general intelligence" (AGI), Zuckerberg's statement hints at Meta's direction, which could have significant implications for humanity and job mark...

Unlocking PySpark's Machine Learning Potential

Spark ML is an open-source library for high-performance data storage and classical machine learning algorithms. The article demonstrates a PySpark demo predicting political leanings using a synthetic dataset, highlighting the use of Spark data and the installation process.