Ray D'Arcy

So OpenAI have ChatGPT and Anthropic have Claude.

You probably know all this already.

But Anthropic have developed this new

AI system that can infiltrate our computers.

They've given it to 40 big firms to tell them this is going to be available, so you better up your security to make sure that the AI that we've developed can't get in and hack into your computers.

Which, that's fair enough, isn't it?

That was nice of them.

Ace is an AI-powered robot who has beaten some of the best table tennis players in the world.

He won three out of five matches against elite players.

He lost to the ones he played against professionals, but he's been clawing back.

And even since the paper about his exploits has been published in Nature on Wednesday, the scientists working on the project have said that Ace has improved since the report was submitted.

They say we played stronger and stronger players and we beat stronger and stronger players.

So what is it?

It's a robot, right?

It's an eight-jointed arm on a movable base.

It doesn't have to stand on two legs first.

And instead of seeing the ball with two eyes, it draws on images from multiple cameras that view the entire court from different angles and track the position and the spin of the ball.

So by zooming in on the ball's logo, the camera system can estimate the ball's spin and axis of rotation in the milliseconds it takes to reach Ace's end of the table.

Wow.

That's spectacular, isn't it, what they can do?