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What happens when we train the largest vision-language model and add in robot experiences? The result is PaLM-E 🌴🤖, a 562-billion parameter, general-purpose, embodied visual-language generalist - across robotics, vision, and language. Website: https://palm-e.github.io - via Naval

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NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 - https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/31/nasa_mistakenly_disconnects_voyager_2/ - Thankfully the probe regularly phones home to fix this sort of mess ... The space org added that Voyager 2's trajectory is expected to remain unchanged. The probe is currently around 32 billion kilometers from Earth, and gets 15km further away every second ...

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