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OpenAI and Reddit reach deal that will give ChatGPT access to content on the social media platform.

Despite being in its early release stages, GPT-4o is seemingly great at writing and detecting errors in code.

Sony has shown off its new surgical robot doing some super-precise work sewing up a tiny slit in a corn kernel. It’s the first machine of its kind that auto-switches between its different tools, and has successfully been tested in animal surgery.

It’s designed to help in the field of super-microsurgery, a highly specialized field in which surgeons operate on extremely small blood vessels and nerves, with diameters well under 1 mm (0.04 in). As you might imagine, this kind of thing requires incredibly steady hands, and specialists in this field often do their work whole looking through a microscope.

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From Stanford TRANSIC: Sim-to-Real Policy Transfer by Learning from Online Correction.

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TRANSIC: Sim-to-Real Policy Transfer by Learning from Online Correction.

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An advanced new technique combines machine-learning algorithms with measurements of vibrations for monitoring tool wear.

A viral two-minute short titled “Air Head,” created in part by using OpenAI’s video-generating Sora tool, required a good bit human editing.

New tech aids stroke recovery:

A groundbreaking new robotic hand that can feel touch like a human one and pave the way for new prosthetics and robots.

“This is a really nice way of incorporating something you know about your physical system deep inside your machine-learning scheme. It goes far beyond just performing feature engineering on your data samples or simple inductive biases,” Schäfer says.

This generative classifier can determine what phase the system is in given some parameter, like temperature or pressure. And because the researchers directly approximate the probability distributions underlying measurements from the physical system, the classifier has system knowledge.

This enables their method to perform better than other machine-learning techniques. And because it can work automatically without the need for extensive training, their approach significantly enhances the computational efficiency of identifying phase transitions.

Summary: Researchers use AI to reveal distinct cellular-level differences in the brains of men and women, focusing on white matter. These findings show AI can accurately identify sex-based brain patterns invisible to human eyes.

The study suggests that understanding these differences can enhance diagnostic tools and treatments for brain disorders. This research emphasizes the need for diversity in brain studies to ensure comprehensive insights into neurological diseases.