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Autonomy

The future is autonomous. I dive into details of how we are going to safely achieve that.

Robot Vision (and action)!

Hello Gemini Robotics! Google surprised me a couple weeks ago with some cool tech. I’m watching carefully for the events that get AI into hardware and Vision Language Action has a lot of promise in creating more general and adaptable robots. It’s a good name — intelligence that integrates vision, language, and action—allowing robots to […] read more

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Robots and Chatbots

Before ChatGPT, human looking robotics defined AI in the public imagination. That might be true again in the near future. With AI models online, it’s awesome to have AI automate our writing and art, but we still have to wash the dishes and chop the firewood. That may change soon. AI is finding bodies fast […] read more

Power and AI

The Growing Power Needs for Large Language Models In 2024, AI is awesome, empowering and available to everyone. Unfortunately, while AI is free to consumers, these models are expensive to train and operate at scale. Training them is expected to be the most expensive thing ever. Yes, more than the Manhattan project, pyramids and the […] read more

Autonomy

I lead autonomy at Boeing. What exactly do I do? We engineers have kidnapped a word that doesn’t belong to us. Autonomy is not a tech word, it’s the ability to act independently. It’s freedom that we design in and give to machines. It’s also a bit more. Autonomy is the ability to make decisions […] read more