When robots appear to engage with people and display human-like emotions, people may perceive them as capable of ‘thinking,’ or acting on their own beliefs and desires rather than their programs, according to new research. Read More
Posted by Yundi Qian, Software Engineer, Google Research and Mircea Trofin, Software Engineer, Google Core The question of how to compile faster and smaller code arose together with the birth of modem computers. Better code optimization can significantly reduce the…
Posted by Dan Walker and Dan Liebling, Software Engineers, Google Research People don’t write in the same way that they speak. Written language is controlled and deliberate, whereas transcripts of spontaneous speech (like interviews) are hard to read because speech…
Posted by Ethan Dyer and Guy Gur-Ari, Research Scientists, Google Research, Blueshift Team Language models have demonstrated remarkable performance on a variety of natural language tasks — indeed, a general lesson from many works, including BERT, GPT-3, Gopher, and PaLM, has…
Boxi shares their experiences working as a program specialist on the ethics & society team to support ethical, safe and beneficial AI development, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary and sociotechnical thinking. Read More
Current AIs are very accurate but inflexible at image recognition. Exactly why this is remains a mystery. Researchers have developed a method called ‘Raw Zero-Shot’ to assess how neural networks handle elements unknown to them. The results have the potential…
In a step toward robots that can learn on the fly like humans do, a new approach expands training data sets for robots that work with soft objects like ropes and fabrics, or in cluttered environments. Read More
FuseBot is a new robotic system that fuses visual information and radio-frequency signals to efficiently find hidden items buried under a pile of objects, whether or not the targeted item has an RFID tag. Read More
Computer scientists develop a method that allows humans to help complex robots build efficient solutions to ‘see’ their environments and carry out tasks. Read More
Researchers studied the effect of the ‘attitudes’ of a semi-autonomous telepresence robot on its human operator. They found that when a person controlled only a part of the body of a semi-autonomous robot, its expressed opinions affected him or her.…
