Griffin, the first Human Interaction Model to pass video Turing Test it's already #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video - 44% of people thought it was a real person while other systems are at ~3%

u/Distinct-Question-16 — 14 days ago

Hokkaido Centennial Memorial Tower, Sachio Otani, 1970

this 100m high tower is more an example of Japan brutalism with all their retrofuture vibes. this was built to celebrate 100th aniversary of Hokkaido naming..

u/Distinct-Question-16 — 1 month ago

An experimental AI-created drug for an incurable lung disease had a surprising effect during trials: it made the body's biological age indicators drop by 6 years, towards a younger state.

An experimental drug called Rentosertib, created by biotech company Insilico Medicine using artificial intelligence, has shown an unexpected effect. It was developed against an incurable lung disease, but during the tests, the indicators by which scientists estimate the biological age of the body changed in patients.

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u/Distinct-Question-16 — 1 month ago
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Unitree’s UnifoLM-X2-1.0 reads the opponent, predicts the next move and reacts instantly. For the first time a world model controls a fully autonomous humanoid fight in real time.

UnifoLM-X2-1.0 breaks through world-action foundation models' bottlenecks in instant planning, decision-making, and dynamic interactive execution, achieve high dynamics, strong interaction, real-time prediction and planning of the future, achieve fully autonomous combat for humanoid robots. This validates the fundamental feasibility of large-scale deployment of world model-driven humanoid robots.

u/Cheerful2_Dogman210x — 1 month ago
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The 1926 "Acrobatic Auto" an experimental safety vehicle created by French inventor André Mercier nicknamed the "Crashless" car

u/Distinct-Question-16 — 1 month ago

Inside a mountain in the Arctic, on the Norwegian island of Svalbard, lies the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, also called the Doomsday vault - a secure repository containing millions of seeds, preserved at -0.4°F (−18°C). Its purpose is to safeguard the genetic diversity of the world’s crops.

u/Distinct-Question-16 — 1 month ago

Police in Turkey have started using drones to enforce the law

"This is a police drone. Drinking alcohol in this area is prohibited. Leave this area immediately."

u/Distinct-Question-16 — 1 month ago