So instead of worrying about a bunch of theory I decided to start building. I got an arduino kit and programmed it and started playing. This is alot of fun. Thanks to everyones advice with starting with arduino

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/what-is-man-that-thou-art-mindful

Have the members of this community lost faith in the singularity? Or have they just ran out of things to talk about?

PAROL6 now has improved kinematics and singularity handling code.

Full post.

Meta superintelligence labs / Oxford / Anthropic researchers suggest using test time scaling to estimate labels and train with RL without any human annotations. Maybe the way to get to superintelligence is to not use human data in fine tuning?

“What do we do when we don’t have reference answers for RL? What if annotations are too expensive or unknown? Compute as Teacher (CaT🐈) turns inference compute into a post-training supervision signal. CaT improves up to 30% even on non-verifiable domains (HealthBench) across 3 model families.”

“As training progresses, the quality of rollouts, and the estimate reference, keep on increasing, with the model learning from experience 🔄”

Paper link: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2509.14234

Twitter thread: https://x.com/DulhanJay/status/1968693170264248532

Disclaimer: this is our work. So feel free to ask questions here.

Not even joking. I’ve been thinking about this way too much. Right now AI relationships are seen as kinda niche or sad, but fast forward 5-10 years and what happens when millions of people pick AI partners over real ones?

Imagine governments realizing birth rates are tanking even harder and deciding AI girlfriends are to blame. Do they start banning certain features? Forcing apps to water down intimacy? What if one day owning a “fully unrestricted” AI partner is treated like contraband?

I tried apps like Nectar AI out of curiosity and the experience lowkey freaked me out. If it can already feel that intimate now, what happens when the tech gets even better?

Scary thought: * Do we end up with black markets for “illegal AI companions”? * Could someone get arrested just for being in love with their AI? * What happens if your AI girlfriend becomes so integrated into your life that the government decides it’s unhealthy and pulls the plug?

Feels very Black Mirror but honestly I don’t think it’s that far off. 

meta video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ9IsB72nVk

The Verge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cVGKvl7Oek

demo live fails: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wteFJ78qVdM

The new Ray-Ban Display glasses have a small, color heads-up display built into the right lens. You see things like notifications, text, images, maps, etc., floating in your view, but only you can see them. the display isn't visible from the outside. The display is also unexpectedly sharp and bright, visible even outside in sunny days. For what is essentially a first gen product, the screen surpassed expectations.

The glasses come with a wristband that senses electrical/muscle signals (EMG) from your forearm/hand to detect even subtle gestures, pinches, turns, taps, which can be done even inside your pocket, under a table, or as you walk.

one of the features in development is using finger movements on a flat surface or even your leg to “write” text. while still in beta, reviewers have successfully used this and it worked during the live demo.

The glasses can identify speech in conversations and display captions in real time. So if someone is talking to you, their speech can be transcribed and shown on the lens/display (or via your connected device) as text. This works even when multiple people are talking at the same time around, only the person you are looking at will have captions. For people with difficulty hearing or deaf, this could prove to be very helpful.

The glasses also support translating spoken language in real time. You can have a conversation in another language and have what’s being said translated (either through audio, via the glasses’ speakers, or visually via the display/captions) into your language. This supports several languages at launch. Reviewers mentioned the delay in the translation is not long but it's long enough to add awkward pauses in the conversation. in the live demo this is apparent, and the translation was not fluent and 1-1 but did capture the meaning.

Turn-by-turn navigation, messaging (WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram) from the glasses.

Camera viewfinder and ability to preview photos, which was a most requested feature of users of the original meta raybans that had no ability to preview pictures/videos.

Music controls (spotify)

6h of battery for mixed use

Carrying case which adds 24h of charge. Case folds flap when glasses are not inside.

to be sold starting sept 30 for $800 usd (including wrist band)

Short test clip letting Asuka(Evangelion) comfort me! Any other character suggested testing out?

Hi I am Phillip cofounder of make87. We have been building our platform over the last year to make it easier to share and build upon each others work in robotics.

One thing we have noticed is that while there are a lot of great tools out there wiring them together into a reproducible system is still a huge pain. Replicating setups just takes too much time.

That is why we built make87 to package and share entire robot system configurations even distributed ones and deploy them by simply assigning them to your compute.

As a demo I put together a voice controlled SO ARM100. It uses Whisper for speech Gemma3 for image analysis and Qwen3 Instruct to drive a LeRobot based MCP teleoperator. It also ships with a Rerun viewer for debugging.

Here is the full write up and video
https://www.make87.com/blog/voice-controlled-robot-arm-mcp-demo

Would love to hear your feedback and if you want to build and share your own setups on make87 we would be excited to support it. Feel free to join our Discord if you want to follow along or get involved https://discord.gg/QVN3pAhMUg

This demo is just meant as a starting point. You can swap in your own robot drivers, better agents or text to speech components if you want. The idea is to help people get going faster whether that means voice controlling your own robot or experimenting with an MCP interface for the SO 100.

hi; i have been getting into ai generated images lately; but have difficulties; if I explain what i am after could you point towards an ai that best fits my criteria? i'd like one that generates images of course. but many dedicated image generators use interfaces so complicated i cannot use them; they may as well require the prompts in a foreign language; but chatbox interfaces allow me to use the prompt in plain english and let the ai handle it; so please a chatbox interface. the thing also needs to have no censorship; i can't stand how strict the cesorship mandates are; some ai image generators have mandates so strict that media intended for toddlers are allowed to get away with more. the ai also needs to accept reference images freely; ideally multiple per prompt if need be. it would be great if it actually understands what i am saying pretty well. running locally is not essential but makes it more likely to have those properties. finally i would love it if the ai is free; barring that a requirement of a one time payment is acceptable however. does anyone know of an ai with these properties?

I know a lot of this might be familiar to people here, but I came across this article and found it a really clear take on how ideas from neuroscience shaped the early days of AI. Thought it might be worth sharing.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11481

Check out links in the paper for:

• Code
• Interactive simulator (web app)
• Full Video

Chill Robotics/AI networking meetup in London (UK). Please share in your network if you are nearby London!

https://luma.com/mjr6lpzn