The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt.

Not all point clouds are destined to be 3D models. A project may call for watching for changes in a surface, for example. We’ve gone into detail in the past about how 3D scanning works ...

This episode looks at the "point clouds" for 3D data visuals used in architecture, archaeology, and autonomous driving. Plus, robots learn new moves. Point cloud data is captured with LiDAR.