Apple Is Pushing AI Into More of Its Products—but Still Lacks a State-of-the-Art Model
Apple took a measured approach to AI at WWDC. A new research paper suggests the company is skeptical about some recent AI advances, too.
Robotic hand with unprecedented tactile sensitivity achieves human-like dexterity in real-world tasks
Researchers have unveiled a robotic hand, the F-TAC Hand, which integrates high-resolution tactile sensing across an unprecedented 70% of its surface area, allowing for human-like adaptive grasping. This pioneering development, published in Nature Machine Intelligence today, represents a significant leap forward in robotic intelligence and its ability to interact with dynamic real-world environments.
I dunno how to call this lora, UltraReal – Flux.dev lora
Who needs a fancy name when the shadows and highlights do all the talking? This experimental LoRA is the scrappy cousin of my Samsung one—same punchy light-and-shadow mojo, but trained on a chaotic mix of pics from my ancient phones (so no Samsung for now). You can check it here: https://civitai.com/models/1662740?modelVersionId=1881976 submitted by /u/FortranUA [link] …
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Like humans, AI is forcing institutions to rethink their purpose
Like people undergoing cognitive migration, institutions must reassess what they were made for in this age of AI.Read More
How to Advocate for Trans Rights in Your Community
Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.
Chatterbox TTS fork *HUGE UPDATE*: 3X Speed increase, Whisper Sync audio validation, text replacement, and more
Check out all the new features here: https://github.com/petermg/Chatterbox-TTS-Extended Just over a week ago Chatterbox was released here: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1kzedue/mod_of_chatterbox_tts_now_accepts_text_files_as/ I made a couple posts of the fork I had made and was working on but this update is even bigger than before. submitted by /u/omni_shaNker [link] [comments]
Agent-based computing is outgrowing the web as we know it
AI agents are moving from passive assistants to active participants. Today, we ask them to do. Tomorrow, we’ll authorize them to act.Read More
Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.
This “robot bird” flies at 45 mph through forests—With no GPS or light
Unlike birds, which navigate unknown environments with remarkable speed and agility, drones typically rely on external guidance or pre-mapped routes. However, a groundbreaking development by Professor Fu Zhang and researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has enabled drones and micro air vehicles (MAVs) …
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Novel analytics framework measures empathy of people captured in video recordings
Empathy, the ability to understand what others are feeling and emotionally connect with their experiences, can be highly advantageous for humans, as it allows them to strengthen relationships and thrive in some professional settings. The development of tools for reliably measuring people’s empathy has thus been a key objective of many past psychology studies.