Daily Archives: December 2, 2020
The Delicate Art of Making Robots That Don’t Creep People Out
The robot Digit stands approximately five feet, four inches high, with a metallic torso the teal color of a hospital worker’s scrubs. It can walk up and down staircases and around corners on two legs, and lift, carry, and stack boxes up to 40 pounds with arms whose hinges evoke the broad shoulders of a swimmer.
Agility Robotics, Digit’s manufacturer, shipped roughly 30 of these robots earlier this year to industrial and academic clients.
… It did not anticipate a swift early consensus that the robot gave people the creeps. Read More
Google Reveals Major Hidden Weakness In Machine Learning
In recent years, machines have become almost as good as humans, and sometimes better, in a wide range of abilities — for example, object recognition, natural language processing and diagnoses based on medical images.
And yet machines trained in this way still make mistakes that humans would never fall for.
… So computer scientists are desperate to understand the limitations of machine learning in more detail. Now a team made up largely of Google computer engineers have identified an entirely new weakness at the heart of the machine learning process that leads to these problems. Read More
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