Waymo‘s Taxi Struggles, Robot Surveillance in Singapore, AI against Human Trafficking - a podcast by Skynet Today

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
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    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
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    AI Analysis of 100,000 Climate Studies Reveals How Massive The Crisis Already Is
    
  
  
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    Google Researchers Explore the Limits of Large-Scale Model Pretraining
    
  
  
  
  


• Ethics
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    New robots patrolling for 'anti-social behaviour' causing unease in Singapore streets
    
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      Singapore sends Xavier the robot to help police keep streets safe under three-week trial
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
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    Are Under-Curated Hyperscale AI Datasets Worse Than The Internet Itself?
    
  
  
  
  


• Fun
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    Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’
    
  
  
  
  

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