Automatic Gadgets That are a Boon for Busy People You are already 50% less tired when you come back from work to a neat and tidy house. Cleaning before and after a busy day can be a put off for most of us. A few years ago, robots were only a possibilit…
Not too long ago, in the Summer of 2018, I was super excited to join the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after obtaining my…
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I’ve been at Google Brain robotics (now referred to as Robotics @ Google) for nearly 3 years. It’s helpful to reflect, from time to time, on the scientific, engineering and personal productivity takeaways gleaned from w…
Our second class of OpenAI Scholars has concluded, with all eight scholars producing an exciting final project showcased at Scholars Demo Day at OpenAI.
Our second class of OpenAI Fellows has wrapped up, with each Fellow going from a machine learning beginner to core OpenAI contributor in the course of a 6-month apprenticeship. We are currently reviewing applications on a rolling basis for our next rou…
A lot of credit for the fast-changing way we work goes to artificial intelligence. AI and machine learning are increasingly powering workplace platforms and tools because sophisticated automation tools can relieve workers from tasks that are too dull o…
Snapchat’s new gender-bending filter is a source of endless fun and laughs at parties. The results are very pleasing to look at. As someone who is used to working with machine learning algorithms, it’s almost magical how robust this feature is.
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In Robotics, one of the hardest problems is how to make your model transfer to the real world. Due to the sample inefficiency of deep RL algorithms and the cost of data collection on real robots, we often need to train models in a simulator which theo…
Nils Nilsson, a pioneer in the field of robotics and considered by many to be a foundational force for artificial intelligence, died after a brief period of hospice care. Nilsson passed away at his Medford, Oregon residence on April 23. He was the Kuma…