A quick overview of interesting AI News for the Yate and Sodbury U3A's monthly AI News meeting held on June 12th 2025 (meetings are second Thursday of month, 1400-1545, St John's Church Centre, Wickwar Road, Chipping Sodbury, UK - all welcome). Note that this is very much a summary to act as background as the topics are discussed in detail at the meeting itself. We also discuss and demonstrate other AI products and services and much more.
The first person using our 'loan Metas' has now purchased their own pair. A second person is now using the loan ones. We have now added a second loan pair, this time in contrasting style. Also we have had a pair of prescription lenses made for about £50 by Lensology for the first pair of Metas.
Meta AI Glasses with a touch of Skyer Style for our AIGlassesUK(dotcom) project. pic.twitter.com/Vyz0Sa0E6g
— The Silver AI Project - free AI training materials (@SilverAIProject) June 11, 2025
This is literally the best AI tool roadmap, It saved me hours. pic.twitter.com/GVuTEWMFAV
— Aadit Sheth (@aaditsh) June 10, 2025
ChatGPT continues to show a huge 'first mover' advantage.
Total visits — May 2025
— Similarweb (@Similarweb) June 11, 2025
ChatGPT: 5.492 Billion
Gemini: 527.7 Million
Deepseek: 436.2 Million
Grok: 178.6 Million
Perplexity: 178.6 Million
Claude: 99.68 Million pic.twitter.com/7Pg3jmcn06
For many uses they will be chosen as being more physically stable and less expensive than humanoids. Here is a typical industrial use.
🚀 A Day in the Life of a Robotic Dog | Fully-Auto Inspection at Work!
— DEEP Robotics (@DeepRobotics_CN) June 10, 2025
Meet our high-tech helper—the robotic dog—assisting State Grid Zhejiang Ultra-High Voltage Company at a converter station in Hangzhou! 🤖⚡
🔍 Fully automated inspections ensure precision and efficiency,… pic.twitter.com/EmKRzFt1sk
Swamp Dog. 5 miles autonomous base perimeter patrol at Tyndall USAF and then ready for a recharge, then back to work, 24/7.
— Wevolver (@WevolverApp) June 3, 2025
Video Credit: Ghost Robotics#engineering #technology #robotics #robots
Stay ahead of the curve!
Follow us now on our… pic.twitter.com/Eq3yZKzSFP
“The challenge that AI poses is the greatest challenge of humanity ever. Overcoming it will also bring the greatest reward.”
— vitrupo (@vitrupo) June 9, 2025
~ Ilya Sutskever pic.twitter.com/HBoZrpxbsh
Demis Hassabis says AGI could bring radical abundance by solving humanity’s core problems
— Haider. (@slow_developer) June 6, 2025
like curing diseases, extending lifespans, and discovering advanced energy solutions.
if successful, the next 20-30 years could begin an era of human flourishing: traveling to the stars… pic.twitter.com/aj8i0kRTfN
He does not think sufficient well paying jobs will emerge.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI companies like his may need to be taxed to offset a coming employment crisis:
— vitrupo (@vitrupo) May 30, 2025
He worries that entry-level white-collar jobs could be replaced within 1–5 years.
“Even if our company stopped… all the other companies would continue. And if they… pic.twitter.com/U58z90U4Jw
some thoughts on human-ai relationships and how we're approaching them at openai
— Joanne Jang (@joannejang) June 5, 2025
it's a long blog post --
tl;dr we build models to serve people first. as more people feel increasingly connected to ai, we’re prioritizing research into how this impacts their emotional well-being.… pic.twitter.com/ACDMEKGv19
Is he a 'shelf stacker' or a 'remote operator' and does one pay more than the other?
Japan is testing a new concept:
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 30, 2025
remote workers operating robots from 8 kilometers away.
📹Teleexistence
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— Daze DaVinci (@dazedavinci) June 11, 2025
End of June 2025 part 2. Link to June 2025 part 1
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