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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

Cars That Think

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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Artisanal Cement Tiles Inspired by Modernist Homes

Baua Electric

If Indiana Jones took a turn toward the elegant and developed an obsession with textiles, he might be a bit like Louis Barthélemy, the French illustrator and designer who travels to Africa and the Middle East to work with weavers and craftspeople who are skilled in traditional techniques. You talk to any designer or architect in L.A.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Personal mobility redefined. The systems are designed to maintain mobility for the elderly and those with weakened leg muscles. 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. kg) of aluminum used.

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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. And yet who better to design the next great leap in technology than men remade by technology themselves?

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

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In an online discussion about EOD support robots, one soldier wrote, “Those little bastards can develop a personality, and they save so many lives.” A Navy unit used a remote-controlled vehicle with a mounted video camera in 2009 to investigate suspicious areas in southern Afghanistan. Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Patrick W.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

Possibly this design was because of the bonding material used during those times. The bedroom floor was designed to have a constant circulation of rosewater. And then there was his personal staff - Purshottam Das who was Akbar's astrologer. Like in the Taj, the redstone is used only for cladding. The inside is all brick.

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