Week of NeurIPS 2023 and Humanoids 2023

Bringing you daily snippets from these 2 top tier conferences

This is a big week with two major conferences in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics intersecting, so there is a lot of interesting news to report. The biggest gathering for AI, NeurIPS 2023 occurs all-week in New Orleans, LA, while the biggest gathering for humanoid robots, Humanoids 2023 occurs from Tuesday - Thursday in Austin, TX. We will bring you short stories such as this post from these two conferences for paid subscribers only. If you have not signed up for paid subscription yet, please do at the following link.

Big advances for Large Language Models (LLMs)

In the case of AI, companies and research groups make big announcements scheduled around NeurIPS in order to make the loudest bang. Google released their latest multi-modal model (multi-modal models work with text, video, images, code, and other media formats simultaneously) called Gemini last week. While there a lot of news on Gemini last week, Google is also receiving a lot of flak for having a canned d…