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Watch: Korean Humanoid Robot Performs Viral K-POP Dance, Learns By Watching Videos Authored by Jijo Malayil via Interesting Engineering, While China dominates humanoid robotics headlines, a Korean firm showcased a humanoid learning complex motions through an open-source AI framework. AI Sapiens enables a complete pipeline for imitation learning, covering data collection, training, and inference. ROBOTIS/YouTube In a recent demonstration, ROBOTIS' AI Sapiens learned the famous CORTIS REDRED Challenge motion using only smartphone video, eliminating the need for professional motion-capture systems. The process combined video-based motion capture, motion retargeting, simulation-based reinforcement learning, and Sim2Real transfer. According to...

Saja Moussa Sharara was married on Tuesday and lived in a house in the village of Arabsalim, a Shi’ite majority village in the southern part of Lebanon’s Nabatieh District. Thursday morning she was killed when an Israeli airstrike attacked her home. Sharara was killed instantly in the strike, and several other people in the house […]

OpenAI Plans Ongoing Public Reports On Unexpected AI Behavior Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, OpenAI said Wednesday that it will start publishing ongoing public reports when its models behave in ways the company did not authorize or expect, and it released six such cases on the same day. The reports cover the past six months and are derived from the training and evaluation process. OpenAI called the releases a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing "model misalignment." It also called the framework a work in progress. Until now, OpenAI often...