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This is a talk by Marc Raibert for course 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence. He is the CEO of Boston Dynamics. This class is free and open to everyone. Our goal is to take an engineering approach to exploring possible paths toward building human-level intelligence for a better world.

Note: Due to technical difficulties, we don’t have a screencast of the slides, and the video of the slides is low resolution. Despite this, I chose to include several parts of the talk that show slides, especially with videos. It’s not optimal, but I hope you learn and enjoy anyway. Thanks for understanding. We’re always learning and improving.

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AI is predicted to be one of the next big digital disruptions, but some places are already feeling its impact.

Alphabet just published its annual Founders’ Letter and this year, cofounder Sergey Brin uses it to outline the ways the company’s using artificial intelligence, while highlighting both the benefits and risks of this “technology renaissance.”

Alphabet’s Sergey Brin uses this year’s Founders’ Letter to outline the ways the company users artificial intelligence every day.

Researchers are using predictive artificial intelligence to help police officers classify crimes and determine whether they are gang-related.

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Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin has written about the threat and promise of artificial intelligence in his annual letter to shareholders. The Alphabet president says AI has brought about a ‘technology renaissance’ but says problems raised by this tech demand ‘serious thought and research.’

Apparently needs a lot of work before it can actually operate like a eel/snake. But, i’d wrap this up in skin so it could look like a snake/eel. Give it solar power skin so it could recharge its own batteries; maybe try to use that system that was supposed to be able to eat organic matter to convert into power. Then, put a bunch of sensors on it, and HD cameras for eyes, and rig it so it could transmit to satellites. And you have a pretty impressive drone that can operate in any body of water and on land close to water.

An innovative, eel-like robot developed by engineers and marine biologists at the University of California can swim silently in salt water without an electric motor. Instead, the robot uses artificial muscles filled with water to propel itself. The foot-long robot, which is connected to an electronics board that remains on the surface, is also virtually transparent.

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Andrew Ng shares what it takes to create an “AI-first company.”

AI can discover new drugs because biology is messy and complex, not in spite of that fact, says Andrew Hopkins.

The CEO of Inglewood space start-up Relativity is trying to automate aerospace production by using robotics and 3D printing to make satellite-launching rockets. The company plans its first test flight in 2020.