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2021's Top Stories About AI

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Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns : MIT's Neil Thompson and several of his collaborators captured the top spot with a thoughtful feature article about the computational and energy costs of training deep learning systems. Several came from Spectrum 's October 2021 special issue on AI, The Great AI Reckoning. You're welcome.

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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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V-2 rockets it used to rain destruction on London. Universal Images Group/Getty Images. Amplistat , CGS Laboratories’ Increductor , Westinghouse’s Cypak (cybernetic package), and Librascope ’s Unidec (universal decision element). A circular magnetic core could be magnetized counterclockwise or clockwise, storing a 0 or a 1.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. He was off to Princeton University in the autumn of 1961, returning to Bell Labs for the next few summers. 1962 and Ph.D. There were 30 or 40 nodes on the ARPANET at the time.

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Video Friday: Reflex Grasping

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Looking to give robots a more nimble, human-like touch MIT engineers have now developed a gripper that grasps by reflex. MIT ] Roboticists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have developed a jellyfish-inspired underwater robot with which they hope one day to collect waste from the bottom of the ocean.