Jun 26, 2019

14 Posts

The Batch: Grieving for Dead Robots, Hacking Animal Brains, Navigating Without GPS, Watching Electrons
Jun 26, 2019

The Batch: Grieving for Dead Robots, Hacking Animal Brains, Navigating Without GPS, Watching Electrons

AI is still compute-hungry. With supervised learning algorithms and emerging approaches to self-supervised and unsupervised learning, we are nowhere near satisfying this hunger.

11 min read
The Batch: Grieving for Dead Robots, Hacking Animal Brains, Navigating Without GPS, Watching Electrons
Jun 26, 2019

The Batch: Grieving for Dead Robots, Hacking Animal Brains, Navigating Without GPS, Watching Electrons

AI is still compute-hungry. With supervised learning algorithms and emerging approaches to self-supervised and unsupervised learning, we are nowhere near satisfying this hunger.

11 min read
Self-Driving Data Deluge
Jun 26, 2019

Self-Driving Data Deluge

Teaching a neural network to drive requires immense quantities of real-world sensor data. Now developers have a mother lode to mine.

1 min read
Self-Driving Data Deluge
Jun 26, 2019

Self-Driving Data Deluge

Teaching a neural network to drive requires immense quantities of real-world sensor data. Now developers have a mother lode to mine.

1 min read
Between Consenting Electrons
Jun 26, 2019

Between Consenting Electrons

Electrons are notoriously fickle things, orbiting one proton, then another, their paths described in terms of probability. Scientists can observe their travel indirectly using scanning tunneling microscopes, but...

1 min read
Between Consenting Electrons
Jun 26, 2019

Between Consenting Electrons

Electrons are notoriously fickle things, orbiting one proton, then another, their paths described in terms of probability. Scientists can observe their travel indirectly using scanning tunneling microscopes, but...

1 min read
Word Salad
Jun 26, 2019

Word Salad

Language models lately have become so good at generating coherent text that some researchers hesitate to release them for fear they'll be misused to auto-generate disinformation.

2 min read
Word Salad
Jun 26, 2019

Word Salad

Language models lately have become so good at generating coherent text that some researchers hesitate to release them for fear they'll be misused to auto-generate disinformation.

2 min read
The Birds and the Buzz
Jun 26, 2019

The Birds and the Buzz

Experts in animal cognition may be the AI industry’s secret weapon. Tech giants like Apple and Google have added neuroscientists studying rodents, birds, and fish to teams working on voice processing, sound recognition, and navigation.

1 min read
The Birds and the Buzz
Jun 26, 2019

The Birds and the Buzz

Experts in animal cognition may be the AI industry’s secret weapon. Tech giants like Apple and Google have added neuroscientists studying rodents, birds, and fish to teams working on voice processing, sound recognition, and navigation.

1 min read
Goodnight, Sweet Bot
Jun 26, 2019

Goodnight, Sweet Bot

Jibo made the cutest household robots on Earth, jointed desk-lamp affairs that wriggle as they chat and play music. In March — a mere 18 months after coming to life — they said goodbye to their owners en masse.

2 min read
Goodnight, Sweet Bot
Jun 26, 2019

Goodnight, Sweet Bot

Jibo made the cutest household robots on Earth, jointed desk-lamp affairs that wriggle as they chat and play music. In March — a mere 18 months after coming to life — they said goodbye to their owners en masse.

2 min read
Wandering Star
Jun 26, 2019

Wandering Star

Robots rely on GPS and prior knowledge of the world to move around without bumping into things. Humans don’t communicate with positioning satellites, yet they’ve wandered confidently, if obliviously, for millennia. A new navigation technology mimics that ability.

2 min read
Wandering Star
Jun 26, 2019

Wandering Star

Robots rely on GPS and prior knowledge of the world to move around without bumping into things. Humans don’t communicate with positioning satellites, yet they’ve wandered confidently, if obliviously, for millennia. A new navigation technology mimics that ability.

2 min read

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