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

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’

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Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)