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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.

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.

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

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.

consistently gone viral, and for a reason immediately apparent in the new clip: The robots are very good. Mick Jagger Spot and his three bandmates — Keith Richards Spot, Ronnie Wood Spot and Charlie Watts Spot — all do a disturbingly convincing rendition of their human-equivalents’ choreography.

inaccurate information. “Examples of automated accounts you might see on Twitter include bots that help you find vaccine appointments and disaster early warning systems,” Twitter wrote in a press release-like FAQ about the new bot labels.

Clockwork Minicurist does nail-paint manicures in less than 10 minutes for only $8.“The customer inserts a cartridge of polish into the device, similar to loading a pod in a Nespresso machine,” said creator Renuka Apte.

robo-dog Spot became available for public consumption, a sophomoric influencer has programmed the Boston Dynamics darling to — wait for it — pee beerinto a cup. The viral video, which by the way contains some foul language, currently has more than 6 million views on YouTube.

We have some sad news to share from the world of animation as Deadline reports that Disney is closing down Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox‘s once successful animation company. It’s seemingly suffering a similar fate to Fox 2000, a live-action branch of 20th Century Studios that was axed post-merger as similar projects were shifted over to Searchlight Pictures.

wrote the Singapore-based automaton firm on their website. “They are able to inform, entertain, and even exchange a simple conversation with you upon activated via QR code.”A video demonstration of the janitorial joke droid in action was recently posted to Facebook by the UK’s Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, which plans on leasing two of the LionsBot creations for their pediatric ward in Kent, the Daily Mail reported.

a now-viral YouTube video has surfaced of Boston Dynamics robots performing a dance number so well-choreographed it looks animated.

coronavirus concerns — by casting a real-life A.I. robot named Erica.

Writer Kevin VanHook calls it “science faction.”