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The most impressive engineering feats in and around AI, explained

The robot revolution employs a lot of people in headsets

Robotics

The robot revolution employs a lot of people in headsets

Humanoid robots learn by imitation, so companies are paying humans up to $48 an hour to puppet them through the chores the machines will one day claim as their own

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How AI now finds the targets and coordinates the strikes

Defense Tech

How AI now finds the targets and coordinates the strikes

Inside the software kill chain: the vision models, targeting systems and swarm coordinators that have quietly become the most consequential AI deployment on earth

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AI is designing the chips it runs on

Chip Design

AI is designing the chips it runs on

Google's TPUs are partly laid out by a reinforcement learner that trains on TPUs, and the industry is still arguing about how much better than humans it really is

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