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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

Cars That Think

SLAM is a technique for building maps incrementally as a robot moves around in the world. In 2002, iRobot , a company that I cofounded, introduced the first mass-market autonomous home-cleaning robot, the Roomba, at a price that severely constricted how much AI we could endow it with. The limited AI wasn't a problem, though.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

The building had Jain, Buddhist, Jewish and Persian motifs, reflecting Din-e-elahi - which translates to learnings from all religions. It is said that Akbar’s queens had unlimited access to this building - and they would play ankh-micholi over there. One good thing about the restaurant was that it had super clean loos.

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