Top news of the week: 19.11.2019.
Common good, All Nippon Airways, Evolutionary robotics, Virtual reality, Task, Poaching
Robotics
RT @WIRED: Opinion: "AI for good projects often amount to pilot beta testing with unproven technologies. It’s unacceptable to experiment in the real world on vulnerable people, especially without their meaningful consent." https://t.co/VWLKocCaMD
OpenOpinion: AI For Good Is Often Bad
Trying to solve poverty, crime, and disease with (often biased) technology doesn’t address their root causes.
Can you imagine using Rocket Travel to get from New York to Shanghai in 39 minutes? https://t.co/HIyEjtEqtz
OpenWithin 10 Years, We’ll Travel by Hyperloop, Rockets, and Avatars
There are now ten major Hyperloop One projects—in various stages of development—spread across the globe. Hyperloop is targeting certification in 2023.
RT @animesh_garg: Scaling crowdsourcing robotics with Human Reasoning & Dexterity for Large-Scale Dataset Creation
Blog: https://t.co/154THbEeTi
Paper: https://t.co/MzPEzFe8mO
Webpage: https://t.co/4LyVASdwOB
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J. Booher, M. Spero, A. Tung, A. Gupta
OpenRoboTurk: Human Reasoning and Dexterity for Large-Scale Dataset Creation
Large datasets have been shown to facilitate robot intelligence. By collecting diverse datasets for tasks such as grasping and stacking, robots are able to learn from this data to grasp and ...