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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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Lillian Light Is No Lightweight - The Environmental Lioness of the South Bay is Fired Up, Ready To Go!

Creative Greenius

And on globalization we actually had a union person speak. Then in 2003 we presented a forum on Iraq, “Voices From the Streets.&# People came in opposition and said “You can’t come out against the Iraq war.&#. Hermosa Beach already had a person working on getting them on board.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Personal mobility redefined. The operations in Kuwait and Iraq use approximately 431 million gallons of fuel per year. Aluminum takes more energy to produce but this is more than offset by improved vehicle performance. The association estimates a net savings of 22 lbs (10 kg) of CO 2 per pound (0.45 kg) of aluminum used.

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

Cars That Think

In an online discussion about EOD support robots, one soldier wrote, “Those little bastards can develop a personality, and they save so many lives.” Take, for example, this case described by a Marine who served in Iraq: My team once had a robot that was obnoxious. An infantryman responded by admitting, “We liked those EOD robots.

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Rodney Brooks’ Three Laws of Robotics

Cars That Think

It has a handle, which make it look like it can be picked up by a person, and it can be. An iRobot PackBot picks up a demonstration object at the Joint Robotics Repair Detachment at Victory Base Complex, Baghdad, Iraq. It does not look like it can go up and down stairs or even a single step up or step down in a house and it cannot.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

The transport sector—which depends almost entirely on oil products, with 93% of all the fuel used in the sector being oil-based in 2010—remains the main driver of global oil demand as economic growth increases demand for personal mobility and freight. World PLDV oil demand in the New Policies Scenario.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

Cars That Think

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.