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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

Cars That Think

In the early 2010s, this wave gathered powerful new momentum with the rise of neural networks learning from massive data sets. That same year we started deploying the first of thousands of robots in Afghanistan and then Iraq to be used to help troops disable improvised explosive devices.

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

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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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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Only 22% remains to power the vehicle. Paul Taylor, Chief Economist for the National Automotive Dealers Association, had the following observations: At $4/gallon gas people looked at more economical versions of the same vehicle rather than going down in vehicle size—they continue to buy cars that meet their needs.

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Using AI to Clear Land Mines in Ukraine

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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. Do not go there.”

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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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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

And then there was his personal staff - Purshottam Das who was Akbar's astrologer. Enterprising hunters in Afghanistan and Pakistan were the possible cause for a change in migration routes. What I liked most was a Tata Power fast charger on the property. Expensive games! The most famous visitors have been the Siberian cranes.

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