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AI advancements

by Joe

A groundbreaking development in AI has been the development of robots’ abilities to learn through observing the actions of humans. Nvidia demonstrated a robot that performs tasks in a real-world setting by watching how the tasks are done, a different and more hands-off mechanism from how robots are usually trained.If robots can learn through observing demonstrations, this has implications, particularly for the workplace and for carrying out physical tasks. Perhaps robots of the future will be in homes, observing how household tasks are performed and taking care of those?In another development along similar lines, a bot program called AlphaGo taught itself advanced strategies for playing the game Go, with no training from humans. This is further highlighting a growing trend of AI that is able to be independent from human knowledge.AI Robot Caregivers Are Filling a ShortfallHow would you feel about being cared for by a robot nurse, or your elderl