"(...)applications in disaster management, search-and-rescue operations, and beyond." Completley beyond me what this "beyond" is supposed to mean.

Still not sure how this would work, but we're ready.

After all the Charlie Kirk meets Jesus clips from 2 weeks ago, I started looking deeper into online religious AI slop and… Good Lord! 😳 youtu.be/rGwa2BIru00?...

"Thinking about the end of the world can be fun. Although realistic doomsday scenarios -nuclear war, global warming, autocracy -are stressful to contemplate, more fanciful apocalypses (an alien invasion, a robot uprising) can generate some enjoyable escapism." Pretty much sums up the current debate

At the same time, people who oppose anything AI pick up the same language - just flipped. They frame AI as something supernaturally evil, like real-life Satan. Just as silly as worshipping it.

People clearly have never seen Paw Patrol.

Heavy 2019-Twitter Kindergarten vibes

The problem in a city with top-notch public transport is that people are atrocious cyclists and drivers.

Late-stage Surveillance Capitalism

Application No. 216 for humanoid robots (before we find a useful one): Being a smooth criminal. It's really smooth.

The movie will flop - hard. But AI as a tool will still turn the entire industry upside down. Not with the bang techbros hope for and artists fear, but gradually, over years. In that sense, it won’t be so different from other technologies that fundamentally reshaped animation.

Not an Ostalgie fan at all - but some Socialist Realism art really slaps.

Jesus! I'm too European for this.

Evan Ackerman has been a thoughtful reporter on robotics for a decade or more @spectrum.ieee.org spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-rob...

A hill I’m willing to die on. [Not every artist is an illustrator.]

Visit us! For a year. Or more. It’s fun! Most of the time. But seriously: Please share. We are especially curious about people who are curious about AI.

Sigh...

Finding out that one of your favorite university-days artists has gone full-blown tinfoil-hat right-wing conspiracy theorist is… depressing. (I know, not exactly news - but new to me.)

one of the wildest bits of discourse, is the idea that we can just ban ai we cannot ban ai. code is speech and you can run these models on a 4080. there's no putting this genie back in the bottle.

The new Netflix Asterix series isn’t as bad as I feared The writing is actually quite clever, though it sometimes feels like they shuffled through ALL the comics, picked the best panels, and built a story from them What I really don’t get is the design: Sure, use CGI, but why make it look like 2003?

Not sure which is more clearly a millennial religion The belief that existing technologies are just the heralds and forerunners of “AGI” Or the belief that existing tech is a “bubble,” a fraudulent Babylon whose millions of deceived followers will melt away like snow when its falsehood is unmasked

Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth. So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?

If only it matched the style and design quality of the originals. Also - where’s his Chinese friend?

Cool. But can Grok do it with dinosaurs as well?

This is the mailbox for Singapore’s second-largest Buddhist monastery. I'm not sure why, though.

You have one minute to interact with a robot through movement only. At the end, you need to say whether it's tele-operated or not. That's the React to This (RTT) Test - one of the robot Turing tests presented this month at activeself.de/movement-mat... Here's how our initial tests went down 👇

Complete brainrot, indeed. Still, I’d say Hologram-2Pac in 2012 was *slightly* worse. Definitely more expensive. (Only a matter of time before AI-generated Hologram-Beatles are filling stadiums.)

Only in Singapore: Four [sic!] weeks of fireworks rehearsals [yes, rehearsals] before National Day Celebrations.

Verschlimmbesserung

The idea that artists aren’t using AI; that (gen)AI and ‘real art’ are somehow polar opposites with no middle ground confuses me. It’s just not how art or art-tools have ever worked.

Probably too weird for investors, but this is proper home robot design. Not another humanoid nanny trope.

I’ll never get used to finding a lizard trapped in the sink in the morning, staring at me like it’s MY fault. #tropics

Solidarität mit der Maus. www.spiegel.de/panorama/mau...

Love the robot-mum next to him stoically ignoring the tantrum throwing on the floor.

Adam Elliot ist immer wonky, immer lustig düster, immer gut.

Ich war 2 Jahre lang Regisseur für John Blund und wusste es nicht! 😭😭😭

The only people really playing 4D chess in US politics are two animation blokes with fart jokes.

At this point, I’ve seen so many Singaporean conscripts riding public transport with Labubus on their [private] backpacks, it might as well be part of the national coat of arms.

Remember two years ago, when people thought 'prompt engineer' would soon be a real job? Those were the days.

I’ve always liked the 'dead internet' conspiracy theory. Not because I believe in it, but because it’s a fun thought experiment. But sometimes, I think we’re getting closer. Not to a 'dead internet,' necessarily, but to a 'zombie internet.' www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Only a visiting position, but NTU ADM is fun. Most of the time. Relatively. ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...

Dear fellow white people, I’ve evolved. If you wear shoes inside the house, we can’t be friends.

They regularly speed up video recordings of humanoid robots. Not to pack more information into less time, but to mask the awkwardness of the motion.

Just another chance to bring up that one weird fact that’s lived in my head rent-free for years: George W. Bush is - bizarrely - a genuinely good artist. (Trump is very much not.)

Two Singaporean ladies on the subway: "So, where did you go this summer for vacation?" "Europe. Germany. We were in this cute city called Leipzig." "Ohhhh! I know it! I love those Eastern European towns. That post-Soviet chic!" 😳

Ich bin ja nicht immer einer Meinung mit #IchBinHanna , aber "verpflichtende Titellehre" musste ich erst mal nachschlagen. So etwas Groteskes kann wirklich nur ein feudales System wie der deutsche akademische Betrieb hervorbringen.

It’s the retro-futurism of the Star Wars franchise, the 'used future' look. The same aesthetic that lets Tesla fanboys imagine a future where Optimus robots harvest grain with a scythe, as if combine harvesters never existed. It's so dumb.

Discussion Regarding the Scheduling of Lectures - AY 2025/26, Semester 2