Alaka'i Technologies' Skai machine has a range of up to four hours/400 mi (640 km) and a five-passenger capacity [...] using a hydrogen fuel cell powertrain that neatly sidesteps the energy density issue that's holding back battery-powered aircraft.
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IEEE: How to Build a Moral Robot.
It's a very good article. Hit the link.So how can we build a robot that can figure out which norms to follow, and when?
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"Our hypothesis is that in any particular context, a subset of norms is activated—a particular set of rules related to that situation. That subset of norms is then available to guide action, to recognize violations, and allow us to make decisions."
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Packt>: House Oversight and Reform Committee labels Facial Recognition as racist, biased and abusive to civil rights.
At the hearing, Joy Buolamwini, founder of Algorithmic Justice League highlighted one of [her] studies at MIT, on facial recognition systems, it was found that for the task of guessing a gender of a face, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon had error rates which rose to over 30% for darker skin and women. On evaluating benchmark datasets from organizations like NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology), a striking imbalance was found. The dataset contained 75 percent male and 80 percent lighter skin data, which she addressed as “pale male datasets”. She added that our faces may well be the final frontier of privacy and Congress must act now to uphold American freedom and rights at minimum.The Algorithmic Justice League. Aren't they the nemesis of THE Justice League?
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AI News: Amazon patent envisions Alexa listening to everything 24/7.
A patent filed by Amazon envisions a future where Alexa listens to users 24/7 without the need for a wakeword.Three separate requests? WTFITS? We ask so much from ourselves, don't we? When will the heavy-lifting end?
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For example, say you were discussing booking a seat at your favourite restaurant next Tuesday. After asking, “Alexa, do I have anything on my schedule next Tuesday?” it could respond: “No, would you like me to book a seat at the restaurant you were discussing and add it to your calendar?”
Today, such a task would require three separate requests.
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The Guardian: World's first raspberry-picking robot set to work.
Yeah, it's slow. However, the story states, "[the] machine [is] expected to pick more than 25,000 raspberries a day, outpacing human workers." Kind of reminds me of the autonomous dry-waller at Bustednuckles.
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Seattle Times: Judge orders Facebook to turn over records on data privacy.A Delaware judge is ordering Facebook to turn over internal records regarding data privacy and access to user data.- - -
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The lawsuit followed reports that the data of more than 50 million Facebook users had been misappropriated without their knowledge by British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica in 2015.
Engadget: Cadillac's hands-free SuperCruise.
Plenty of images of the new Caddy at the link and the engineering seems as solid as autonomous driving can be. Until...something goes wrong.
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Pocket Lint: Lego worked with NASA to release this 1,087-piece Apollo 11 Luna Lander set.
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