Robots: Last News

botty. There’s no business like show business — and now robots are getting their big break thanks to Alba Renai.

Consistent with Rorschach Theatre’s adventurously immersive productions, the company’s latest, The Human Museum by Miyoko Conley, engages audiences in playful conversation with its themes well before the show even begins.Audiences enter through the titular museum, a hallowed institution operated by robots of Earth in a future where humans are extinct. Created inside the same two-story Connecticut Avenue former retail space where, last fall, Rorschach unleashed Night of the Living Dead Live, the Human Museum passes patrons through galleries filled with artifacts of human existence.Considering this is the work of artificially intelligent bots with only a secondhand concept of what humans were like, the exhibit items have been well chosen.

With the advancement of artificial intelligence and just how quickly technology progresses, it feels like we’re getting dangerously close to seeing the first real sci-fi robot. Not like some mindless machine that does preprogrammed tasks, but the type of robot that we saw in sci-fi films with thoughts of its own.

explained to the BBC on Tuesday, adding that glorifying the rise of robots was not their goal. “We were always on the side of humanity and not on the side of technology,” he said of Daft Punk, which was comprised of him and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 49,before they broke up in 2021.

In light of many players’ seeming inability to play Wordle effectively, the New York Times has released a “judgmental,” feedback-providing “WordleBot” that critiques users’ techniques and tells them how they could do better.“WordleBot is a tool that will take your completed Wordle and analyze it for you,” wrote the New York Times of their daily brain game, the object of which is to guess a five-letter word within six tries.The online vocab coach — dubbed “Your Daily Wordle Companion” on their site — allegedly helps Wordlers by grading their prowess in each game. It then informs “you at each turn what, if anything, you could have done differently” — think: a nagging mother-in-law if she was an advanced AI assistant suggesting skill tips.The move follows a flurry of complaints from Wordle-weary players, who have deemed the brain teaser decidedly too hard.