One-Minute Daily AI News 4/28/2024

1. Boston Dynamics and Agility are teaching their bipedal robots to brace for the inevitable.[1]
2. Tesla unveils first look at Robotaxi ride-hailing app.[2]
3. Chinese company Beijing Xinzhida Neurotechnology unveiled its own brain-computer interface (BCI) called Neucyber, which has been used to give a monkey control over a robotic arm.[3]
4. The Catholic advocacy group Catholic Answers released an AI priest called “Father Justin” earlier this week — but quickly defrocked the chatbot after it repeatedly claimed it was a real member of the clergy.[4]
5. Apple’s new OpenELM teases the future of AI on the iPhone.[5]

Sources:

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/28/humanoid-robots-are-learning-to-fall-well/

[2] https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/tesla-unveils-first-look-at-robotaxi-ride-hailing-app

[3] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-developed-its-very-own-neuralink-neucyber-brain-interface-comes-from-a-neurotechnology-firm

[4] https://futurism.com/catholics-defrock-ai-priest-hallucinations

[5] https://github.com/apple/corenet?tab=readme-ov-file