Chatbots · November 2022Gaffe level: Typo
Herzog and Žižek become uncanny AI bots trapped in endless conversation
Someone trained two AI bots to talk like Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek, then left them chatting forever in an infinite livestream. It is exactly as gloriously unhinged as it sounds.
Source: Ars Technica
A Thought-Controlled Bionic Arm Moved Into Its First Home Trial
Avi Davidson, who lost his left arm 17 years ago, is the first person to take the University of Utah's thought-controlled LUKE Arm home for a full year. The direct nerve interface lets him move the arm with his thoughts and feel pressure and texture through it, so within days he was making a sandwich and holding his wife's hand.
Source: University of Utah