 The Allen Institute for AI has compared its AI question-and-answer model Macaw with OpenAI's popular GPT-3 language model. The research institute, founded by Microsoft's Paul Allen, open-sourced Macaw last year. It is limited to answering and generating questions and providing explanations for them. More: - The institute recently published an online demo that lets anyone explore Macaw's answers to a benchmark set of questions.
- Those answers are then compared to GPT -3's responses.
- Macaw often outperforms GPT-3 even though it's an order of magnitude smaller, according to the Allen Institute for AI.
- Macaw contains 11 billion parameters vs. GPT -3's 175 billion parameters. More parameters generally equate to a more sophisticated model.
- To build Macaw, researchers trained Google's T5 transformer model on ~300,000 questions and answers.
- Macaw is publicly available for free.
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 Logistics giant DHL announced a $15M investment to bring Boston Dynamics' Stretch robot to its North American warehouses over three years. Stretch uses a robotic arm and smart gripper to move boxes in and out of trucks and stack pallets for deliveries. More: - The first fleet of robots will be tasked with unloading trucks at DHL logistics centers starting this spring.
- DHL plans to gradually add more tasks and deploy more bots at facilities over the next few years.
- Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics and DHL have already partnered to develop and test the Stretch prototype.
- The robot can move 800 boxes per hour. It is considered a commercial version of Boston's box-moving Handle robot.
- It identifies boxes and navigates on its own through the AI technology known as computer vision.
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The Pentagon's new AI office will launch its first operations on Feb. 1, according to Navy CDO Tom Sasala. The office will be led by the DoD's first-ever chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, who has yet to be named. More: - According to FedScoop, the role was created to help make sure that the DoD's "AI and data initiatives receive more attention."
- That person will report directly to U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks. He or she will be the top official responsible for AI, digital solutions, and data integration in the department.
- The officer will oversee and combine the efforts of the Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Chief Data Officer, and Defense Digital Service.
- The three offices have so far experienced overlaps and inefficiencies due to their independent operations. Instead, they will all report to the officer and "create a tech stack" to integrate data, software, and AI.
- The office is expected to reach full operational capability by June.
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 Andrej Karpathy Tesla is hiring more deep learning engineers for its AI team, according to AI director Andrej Karpathy. In a LinkedIn post about the positions, Karpathy alluded to Tesla's upcoming humanoid robot, which he said "is on track to become the most powerful AI development platform." More: - Karpathy said Tesla will apply what it learns from its self-driving efforts to the "Tesla bot."
- For now, the company is hiring engineers in the areas of deep learning, evaluation, AI tooling, and more.
- He suggested that people who are interested watch the Tesla AI Day presentation held in Aug. 2021.
- That day, the company unveiled plans for its robot that builds upon its work in self-driving fueled by neural networks and its advanced supercomputer.
- Last week, CEO Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla's AI will make advancements as it "trains against the outside world" and contributes to smarter machines, including the Tesla Bot.
- Musk has said he hopes to have a working prototype of the bot, codenamed Optimus, by the end of 2022.
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 Teaser image of Robocar Intelligent electric-vehicle startup Jidu raised $400M to develop an L4 autonomous robocar, which is on track to be revealed this spring. The investment comes from Chinese search giant Baidu and its strategic partner, the auto manufacturer Zhejiang Geely Holding Group. More: - Baidu and Geely had previously invested $256M in the joint venture, which Baidu Group established in March.
- Jidu is now set to unveil its flagship EV, a robotic concept car, at the Beijing Auto Show in April.
- Sales of a mass-produced model are expected in 2023.
- Jidu announced earlier this month that the first model will be powered by Nvidia's Drive Orin system-on-chip, which can process 254 trillion operations per second.
- It will reportedly have L4 autonomous driving capability, meaning it can drive without human intervention in most cases with the option for a driver to take over when needed.
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 |  | Beth is an Inside Analyst and a former public policy/investigative reporter. She has covered AI, VR, technology, and e-commerce for Inside. When she's not busy writing, she's hiking in Arizona's desert, playing pickleball, or trying out new Mexican food recipes. |   | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 Ford. | |
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