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Last Week in AI

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

32 min • 22 oktober 2021

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
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
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
- Are Under-Curated Hyperscale AI Datasets Worse Than The Internet Itself?
Fun
- Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’

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