Waymo‘s Taxi Struggles, Robot Surveillance in Singapore, AI against Human Trafficking

Our 74th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai.

This week:

• Applications • Waymo's self-driving taxi struggles with left turns and puddles. But it's still winning over some Arizona riders •

How AI can fight human trafficking •

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• Research • AI Analysis of 100,000 Climate Studies Reveals How Massive The Crisis Already Is •

• Google Researchers Explore the Limits of Large-Scale Model Pretraining •

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• Ethics • New robots patrolling for 'anti-social behaviour' causing unease in Singapore streets • • Singapore sends Xavier the robot to help police keep streets safe under three-week trial •

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• Are Under-Curated Hyperscale AI Datasets Worse Than The Internet Itself? •

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• Fun • Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’ •

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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Release date

Lydbog: 22. oktober 2021