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TESLA IS HIRING PEOPLE TO DO THE ROBOT (2 MINUTE READ) [6]
Tesla is employing people to wear motion capture suits to help train
its humanoid Optimus robot. The position pays up to $48 per hour and
requires walking for up to over seven hours a day while carrying up to
30 pounds and wearing a VR headset for extended periods. Employees
must also be between 5'7" and 5'11" tall. Optimus may require millions
of hours of data before it's fully ready to work in Tesla's factories.
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Waymo's new driverless technology should be able to handle a wider
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sensors. The upcoming Waymo-Zeekr has an accessible interior with a
low step, a high ceiling, more leg room, and other features. The car
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A recent study exploring an innovative approach to deep brain
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adaptive deep brain stimulation, tailors the amount of electrical
stimulation to each patient's individual symptoms. Patients note
feeling the difference instantly and most say it helped improve their
perceived quality of life. The study was small, but it represents a
significant step in creating personalized treatments for neurological
and psychiatric disorders.
ROCKET LAB ENTERED "HERO MODE" TO FINISH MARS PROBESÄNOW IT'S
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Two NASA spacecraft built by Rocket Lab are beginning preparations
for launch on Blue Origin's first New Glenn rocket. The two science
probes will launch between late September and mid-October. They will
take advantage of a planetary alignment between Earth and Mars that
only happens once every 26 months to travel to Mars to help scientists
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Assuming the launch is successful, the twin spacecraft will be
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AMD has agreed to buy ZT Systems, an artificial intelligence
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acquisition will help AMD accelerate the adoption of its AI data
center chips, which compete with Nvidia's popular GPUs. The
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Google has the best results because everyone uses it. Being the
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As soon as a type of software development becomes so routine that it
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Markov chains, which are like very small, simple, and naive large
language models, produce better humor than models like ChatGPT, which
have been stripped of personality.
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Large language models bring a diverse range of possibilities - some
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