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With the emergence of intelligent systems, as previously mentioned in a jotting, determining which skills will be relevant in the future is challenging. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, school districts across the U.S. are spending tens … Read the rest “Daily Jotting: The Return of Shop Class”

Recently, OpenAI announced a research preview of Operator. OpenAI describes it as an agent that can access the web to perform tasks for the user, including using its own browser to interact with web pages. A more interesting question … Read the rest “Daily Jotting: Designing for Operators”

Autobiographical journaling applications and peripherals provide relevant personal context, values, and attitudes for intelligent systems. Intelligent systems transform or augment personal data through actions or scheduled actions. In this instance, the intelligent system is an in-home robot.

An alternative application … Read the rest “Daily Jotting: Journaling, Context and Intelligent Systems”

A peripheral device, such as a controller or wearable device, receives information about the states of the digital environment from the system. The device allows the user to enter information and collects data on the immediate physical environment to inform … Read the rest “Daily Jotting: Multimodal Peripheral Device for Generative AI-Based Media”

The weights of current robots receiving media attention include: Figure AI’s Figure 02 weighs 70 kg (154.324 lbs), Tesla’s Optimus Gen 2 weighs 57 kg (125.663 lbs), 1X Technologies’ Neo weighs 25 kg (55.1 lbs), the Unitree G1 weighs 35 … Read the rest “Daily Jotting: In-home Robot Safety”

Claude 3.7, a model from Anthropic, is currently playing the Game Boy game Pokémon Red on Twitch. The left side of the interface displays the model’s “thought process,” while the right side shows the gameplay. While not the first … Read the rest “Daily Jotting: AI Playing Games”

How many specialized robots are necessary for everyday life? This modular device, which serves as a control module, provides different robotics platforms with a unifying operation. The software running on the device allows users to add, modify, and remove abilities … Read the rest “Daily Jotting: Transferable Apparatus for Embodied Intelligent Systems”