A Nature Methods paper reports DANNCE, which enables robust 3D tracking of animals’ limbs and other features in naturalistic environments by making use of a deep learning approach that incorporates geometric reasoning. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3gsk39b
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Roxo™, the FedEx SameDay Bot is another step closer to being delivery-ready! Meet some of the brilliant team members behind the development of our first autonomous delivery bot.
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The U.S. Army teased footage of its new night-vision goggles — and it’s straight out of an RPG video game. This is the first-person POV of a soldier participating in a live training exercise.
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This killer whale-inspired watercraft is the aquatic equivalent of aerobatic airplanes.
An “Other” that poses an existential threat to Humanity or a collective enhancement to assure our survival?
On June 4th, 2021 leading researchers in AI, ASI and AGI will come together to discuss Collective Super-Intelligence in general and the world’s first human-mediated Artificial Super-Intelligence called Uplift in particular.
Elon Musk believes it is a waste of resources.
The Air Force has announced a new study into the tactical aviation requirements of future aircraft, dubbed TacAir. In the process of doing so, Air Force chief of staff General Charles Q. Brown finally admitted what’s been obvious for years: The F-35 program has failed to achieve its goals. There is, at this point, little reason to believe it will ever succeed.
According to Brown, the USAF doesn’t just need the NGAD (Next Generation Air Dominance) fighter, a sixth-generation aircraft — it also needs a new, “5th-generation minus / 4.5th-generation aircraft.” Brown acknowledged some recent issues with the F-35 and suggested one potential solution was to fly the plane less often.
“I want to moderate how much we’re using those aircraft,” the general said. “You don’t drive your Ferrari to work every day, you only drive it on Sundays. This is our high end, we want to make sure we don’t use it all for the low-end fight… We don’t want to burn up capability now and wish we had it later.”
