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A study of review reports identifies dozens of adjectives that could indicate text written with the help of chatbots. A study of review reports identifies dozens of adjectives that could indicate text written with the help of chatbots.

Large language models combined with confidence scores help them recognize uncertainty. That could be key to making robots safe and trustworthy.

<p>Engineers at Princeton University and Google have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don’t know. The technique involves quantifying the fuzziness of human language and using that measurement to tell robots when to ask for further directions. Telling a robot to pick up a bowl from a table with only one bowl is fairly clear. But telling a robot to pick up a bowl when there are five bowls on the table generates a much higher degree of uncertainty —...

A new technique enables an AI agent to be guided by data crowdsourced asynchronously from nonexpert human users as it learns to complete a task through reinforcement learning. The method trains the robot faster and better than other approaches.

The answer is, of course, robot learning. Walk into nearly any robotics research lab these days and you will find teams working on tackling the issue. Rather, building more complex and capable systems will almost certainly involve a combination of solutions.

Here's how virtual training translates into real robots.

A new 'parkour algorithm' teaches robodogs in virtual settings first.

The 80s, for instance, brought exciting breakthroughs in learning by demonstration, but a slew of research projects out of schools like CMU, MIT and UC Berkeley point to a future in which robots learn much like their human counterparts. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt's Hardware Stage, the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is showcasing advancements in research that can teach a robot a new skill quite literally overnight. “It’s remarkable how fast it works," says TRI CEO...

Three new courses teach students the fundamentals of robotic coding, challenge students to build a walking robot and make students think about the ethics of the

UMass Lowell Assistant Professor Reza Ahmadzadeh envisions a future world where robots help people live more comfortably and safely—and he’s working to develop the methods to make such an environment possible. The National Science Foundation recognized the potential of Ahmadzadeh’s perspective and awarded him a faculty early-career development CAREER grant. The nearly $500,000 pays for […]