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Robot taught to read twice as fast as Humans

A Robot trained to read Braille at twice the speed of humans
Researchers have developed a robotic sensor that incorporates
Artificial Intelligence techniques to read Braille at speeds roughly
double that of most human readers. For robotics, softness is a
useful characteristic, but you also need lots of sensor information,
and it,s tricky to have both at once, especially when dealing
with flexible or deformable surfaces. Braille is an ideal test for a robot, fingertip, as
reading it requires high sensitivity, since the dots in each representative letter
pattern are so close together. The researchers used an off-the-shelf sensor to develop
a robotic Braille reader that more accurately replicates human reading behavior. “There are
existing robotic Braille readers, but they only read one letter at a time, which is not how humans
read,” said co-author David Hardman, also from the Department of Engineering.

Chat with AI shifts attitudes on climate change

Chats with AI shift attitudes on climate of users incomplex discussions. The model
change is a precursor to one that powers the
Black Lives Matter (BLM) people who high-profile Chat GPT. The researchers
were more skeptical of human-caused recruited more than 3,000 people in late
climate change or the Black Lives Matter 2021 and early 2022 to have real-time
movement who took part in conversation conversations with GPT-3 about climate
with a popular AI Chat bot were disappointed change and BLM. “The fundamental goal of
with the experience but left the convesation an interaction like this between two people
more supportive of the scientific consensus (or agents) is to increase understanding of
on climate change or BLM. each other’s perspective,” says Kaiping
Chen, a professor of life sciences communi-
This is according to researchers studying cation who studies how people discuss
how these chatbots handle interactions science and deliberate on related political
from people with different cultural back- issues – often through digital technology. “A
grounds. Researchers at the University of good large language model would probably
Wisconsin- make users feel the same kind of
Madison study- understanding.”
ing AI wanted Chen and Yixuan “Sharon” Li, a
to understand UW-Madison professor of computer
how one complex science who studies the safety and reliabili-
large language ty of AI systems, along with their students
model, GPT-3, Anqi Shao and Jirayu Burapacheep (now a
would perform graduate student at Stanford University),
across a culturally published their results in January in the
diverse group journal Scientific Reports.

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