Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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. These haven't been the only terrible failures of AI systems when no person was in the loop.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

While we honor today the service, sacrifice and loss of all our military members, there was no threat to our homeland, our freedom or our democracy from the North Koreans, the North Vietnamese, the Cambodians, the Iraqis, or the Afghanistan people. My personal sense of patriotism demands that I defend this island, whatever the cost may be.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

Ishkar, a London-based company that collaborates with NGOs and artisans to create job opportunities for those living in isolated areas of countries often affected by war, recently commissioned him to create a capsule collection with women weavers in Afghanistan.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 25, 2024

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. Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War.

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Cars That Think

MAY 29, 2024

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. It still is found in Afghanistan, but it’s found in much higher quantities right now in Ukraine. Then found— it’s a Russian-made land mine.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 21, 2022

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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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

Personal mobility redefined. Fuel becomes very expensive by the time it reaches the front line, ranging from $20/gallon up to $600/gallon when it is delivered by helicopter in Afghanistan. Aluminum takes more energy to produce but this is more than offset by improved vehicle performance. kg) of aluminum used.

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