Waymo‘s Taxi Struggles, Robot Surveillance in Singapore, AI against Human Trafficking

2021-10-21

Our 74th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai. This week: Applications Waymo's self-driving taxi struggles with left turns and puddles. But it's still winning over some Arizona riders How AI can fight human trafficking Research AI Analysis of 100,000 Climate Studies Reveals How Massive The Crisis Already Is Google Researchers Explore the Limits of Large-Scale Model Pretraining

Our 74th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Check our text version of this news roundup over at lastweekin.ai.

This week:

Applications
- Waymo's self-driving taxi struggles with left turns and puddles. But it's still winning over some Arizona riders
- How AI can fight human trafficking
Research
- AI Analysis of 100,000 Climate Studies Reveals How Massive The Crisis Already Is
- Google Researchers Explore the Limits of Large-Scale Model Pretraining
Ethics
- New robots patrolling for 'anti-social behaviour' causing unease in Singapore streets
  - Singapore sends Xavier the robot to help police keep streets safe under three-week trial
- Are Under-Curated Hyperscale AI Datasets Worse Than The Internet Itself?
Fun
- Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’