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An ever-changing room of Ikea furniture could help AI navigate the world Moravec‘s Paradox

An ever-changing room of Ikea furniture could help AI navigate the world

In a building across from its main office in Seattle, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has enough Ikea furniture to configure 14 different apartments. The lab isn’t going into interior design—not exactly. The resources are meant to train smarter algorithms for controlling robots.Household robots like the Roomba function…
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February 12, 2020
Washington’s Policy of Strangling China. US Nuclear Threats, Militarization of the Taiwan Straits Hiroshima

Washington’s Policy of Strangling China. US Nuclear Threats, Militarization of the Taiwan Straits

Less than 150 miles from China’s south-eastern coast lies Taiwan, a mountainous and volcanic island which is about a third the size of Cuba. Yet with 23 million people, Taiwan has twice the population of its Caribbean counterpart. From the 1950s until the present moment, Taiwan has been a crucial…
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February 12, 2020
Italian Senate votes to lift Salvini’s immunity over migrant boat detention Matteo Salvini

Italian Senate votes to lift Salvini’s immunity over migrant boat detention

Latest2/22/20, 7:08 PM CETErdoğan says he will meet Putin, Merkel and Macron to discuss SyriaPlans for March 5 meeting follow a sharp escalation in violence in Idlib.2/22/20, 3:05 PM CETPolitical factions in Germany’s Thuringia strike compromise dealThe former state premier will return to run a minority government until fresh elections…
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February 12, 2020
Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and the rabbit-duck illusion: SoftBank’s CEO used a bizarre slide deck to rebrand as an investor Alibaba

Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and the rabbit-duck illusion: SoftBank’s CEO used a bizarre slide deck to rebrand as an investor

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son wants the Japanese conglomerate to be seen as an investment company, not an operating one. Son used the rabbit-duck illusion to make his case during SoftBank’s earnings presentation on Wednesday. He urged investors to look at SoftBank’s “shareholder value,” not its revenues and profits. Asked if…
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February 12, 2020