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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

Cars That Think

This article is part of our special report on AI, “ The Great AI Reckoning.”. Regardless of what you might think about AI, the reality is that just about every successful deployment has either one of two expedients: It has a person somewhere in the loop, or the cost of failure, should the system blunder, is very low.

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Serving My Country – My Patriotic Duty

Creative Greenius

On this Veteran’s Day 2013 I honor my father-in-law, Bob Bushweit for his service starting at the age of 18 in World War II where he fought as a member of Patton’s Third Army across Africa and Europe and actually did preserve our freedom and our democracy as part of the greatest generation. .

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

Cars That Think

What’s more, the scale of the problem makes artificial intelligence a compelling part of the solution. At that rate, it would take more than 500 million person-hours to manually search imagery covering all of Ukraine’s suspected contaminated land for EO.

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Using AI to Clear Land Mines in Ukraine

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The first part is the non-technical survey, and then this is clearance. Clearance happens one of three ways, usually, but it always ends up with a person on the ground basically doing extreme gardening. It was previously found in Afghanistan. They dig out a certain standard amount of the soil, usually 13 centimeters.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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By the war’s end, with “not quite one arm between four persons, and exactly two legs between six,” these self-taught amputee-weaponsmiths decide to repurpose their skills toward a new projectile: a rocket ship. soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

The best part was the road had very less non-human traffic. The interesting part about the Mughal era brick is that it is much thinner than the modern day brick. And then there was his personal staff - Purshottam Das who was Akbar's astrologer. A decision was made to do part of the journey with cycles loaded onto the truck.

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

Cars That Think

They were paying their final respects to Boomer, a fallen comrade who had been an indispensable part of their team for years. In an online discussion about EOD support robots, one soldier wrote, “Those little bastards can develop a personality, and they save so many lives.” Just days earlier, he had been blown apart by a roadside bomb.

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