While California burns, a scientist from the world's biggest artificial intelligence chipmaker is suggesting that AI could help fight the wildfires — even though the technology has already begun degrading the environment, and is slated to do much more. In a post on X-formerly-Twitter featuring a video of a humanoid robot walking down a street in China, NVIDIA "embodied AI" researcher Jim Fan remarked, after complimenting the bot's "swag," that such machines need "to go fire-fighting asap!" I've verified from reliable sources. New visual Turing Test: this is a real robot demo! The controller is a neural net trained in […]