Will Knight

hi.
I cover AI, robotics, computing, and so on for @WIRED
wak.01 on signal (no pr pls!)

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@emollick It would be fun to do the reverse of this...

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This is Andrew Zhao (@_AndrewZhao), a researcher at Tsinghua University working on recursive-self-improvement (and other interesting things)! https://t.co/KwuUKDxmRv We had a great chat. 幸会 Andrew!

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I just learned a lovely Chinese phrase for dystopian: 反乌托邦的 (Fǎn wūtuōbāng de) meaning literally "anti-utopia".

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@chris_j_paxton These are one upgrade away from you know what…😅

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Huawei has developed an electric power train and autonomous driving platform that is being used by incumbent Chinese carmakers through new brands like AITO. The blue light tells you that the car is driving itself…

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@emollick The cybersecurity risks might complicate this you know…

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Great news…Now ship me a machine that can run it!

[NVIDIA AI @NVIDIAAI]

Today we're shipping Nemotron 3 Ultra.

A 550B MoE frontier-intelligence open model built for long-running agents.

It delivers 5x faster inference and lowers the cost of complex agentic tasks by up to 30% versus other open frontier models.

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I’m visiting Shenzhen, and was initially excited to see a robot coffee maker in the lobby. Then I realized that it takes many times longer to make a cup than just using the regular machine. Car manufacturers can relate…

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@DynamicWebPaige @Stanford @GoogleAIStudio I need this

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@EnchantedTools @PaulMarks12 @AGIBOTofficial Nice one Paul!

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The Robotics Summit in Boston today featured a lot of cool robots, including some from @AGIBOTofficial

[Max Zeff @ZeffMax]

New: A group of AI researchers from Google DeepMind, Apple, MSL, and OpenAI are launching a new startup called Trajectory to build a continual learning platform for companies.

They've raised a $15M seed round from Sarah Guo's Conviction, Jeff Dean, Fei-Fei Li, and others.

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@ErenChenAI amazing!

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@ShayneRedford @alex_pentland @sarahookr @PeterHndrsn congrats!

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@S_OhEigeartaigh Fair points. I am concerned that we really don't know how psychologically harmful it can be in general. Like other people writing about AI, I am inundated with worrying messages from people who seem to be experiencing mental health issues.

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

The new White House policy requiring green card applicants to apply from outside the US is a capricious attack on legal immigration. It will hurt families, leave us with fewer doctors, teachers and scientists, and hurt American competitiveness in AI.

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@hlntnr @SusanShirk1 Great point. The damage being done to American science right now is so much more important than reducing regs for rich companies.

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The recent NYT opinion piece by @tab_delete is so fascinating, beyond just the way AI is upending education. "What really is the distinction between a nameless, faceless human you’ll never meet except over the internet and a statistical approximation of the same thing?".
https://t.co/uvRohLVEyz

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@KuphDev @Ken_Goldberg @spencerhuang_ nice!

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It is truly mind-blowing how capable Claude and Codex now are at configuring and controlling robots. My own experiments (with a lerobot 101) point to a fascinating new trend in robotics that could accelerate adoption. Many thanks to @Ken_Goldberg and @spencerhuang_ for their insights! https://t.co/kCebMC5cxR