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HallucinationsHallucinations: The Robot That Learned to Play Ping-Pong
Sony's AI robot just made the cover of Nature for expert-level table tennis. It can read spin and win rallies. It can't set up the table. That gap defines everything.
The ball comes in at forty miles per hour with topspin, and the robot returns it crosscourt. Not once. Not as a party trick. Point after point after point, reading spin off the rubber, adjusting its paddle angle mid-swing, placing shots with the kind of geometric precision that m…
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