There we are ! GPT4 has officially been released. Since communication and articles about it have just started I will wait a little bit before including this topic in the review. This makes this edition of the Tech News review a bit lighter but focussed on very innovative topics such as haptic holography, AI and robotics.
- The last 20 years have been the reign of touch technology. Will haptic holography replace our touchscreens ? Ultrasound shock waves offer a solution to create three-dimensional interfaces. The future of touch
- When I was young, we were amazed because a computer beat Kasparov at a chess game. Now AI is able to pilot a small aircraft and beat its opponent controlled remotely by a human being. AI pilot crushes human dogfight rival in 90 seconds
- You know what they say about aliens that, if they exist, probably don’t look like humans at all. Well, neither do robot. Google is currently working with a German university on a robot called PaLM-E. From a design perspective, it is not as spectacular as Boston Dynamics but they say its embodied visual-language model allows him to perform a lot of tasks with a certain level of autonomy. It is still quite slow to perform the actions (go and check the video) but no doubt that if all capabilities are put together we’ll have stunning robots emerging in the coming 5 to 10 years. Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands
- We could feel it coming and there it is. Voice generators are used to simulate existing persons voices and realistic emotions to scam vulnerable people. Thousands scammed by AI voices mimicking loved ones in emergencies