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Structural bias enables reliable sim-to-real transfer in reinforcement learning for robot swarms

Constraining policies to select behavior modules allows reinforcement learning transfer from simulation to real robot swarms.

The Gravity of Words: When Things Get Heavy, Say Something Mundane

Glenn Gould lived a life that seemed to embody the act of sticking to one's guns. The opening of "Kusamakura" (Grass Pillow) ...

Does the Trolley Problem Lead to the 'Problem of Autonomous Driving'?

Introduction: Five people or one?A runaway trolley is heading toward five people working on the tracks. You have a lever for ...
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From code to cure: Harnessing AI for antibiotic discovery and design

AI is accelerating antibiotic discovery, but clinical translation requires standardized data, safety optimization, and new ...
MIT Technology Review

An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at from a brain scan

Scientists hope it could be used to reconstruct a person’s inner thoughts, mental images, or even dreams. A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and ...