Picks of the Week

Black in AI
‘It’s the robot we were all expecting – like C3PO’: why aren’t humanoids in our homes yet?
Gyroscopic Precession is Easier Than You Think!
AI Prompt Engineering is Dead Long live AI prompt engineering (IEEE Spectrum)
Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior
IEEE guide to the world of robots (this is a new and improved version of what was already a great website)
No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship
Creating questionnaires with LaTeX from Sven Hartenstein
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work? (and a lot more besides) by Stephen Wolfram
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI (edited extract) and An interview with the authors
Robotics in Africa Forum at IROS 2024
Beware the ‘botshit’: why generative AI is such a real and imminent threat to the way we live André Spicer
On the Origin of Deep Learning Haohan Wang and Bhiksha Raj
Cycling the Wild Atlantic Way by Rolling Resistance
Women in Robotics
AI Act Tutorial