In other news, a US-Russian SpaceX crew has successfully docked at the ISS for a six-month mission, Apple has been fined $2 billion by the EU, and former Twitter executives are suing Elon Musk. The article also discusses the rise of AI's tax advice, China's investment in quantum computing, the role of social media in illegal goods trafficking, and the increasing demand for weight-loss drugs. It concludes with a discussion on the use of reinforcement learning in self-driving cars.
Key takeaways:
- Robots are an incredible way to enhance and extend the reach of human capabilities, with potential to extend our senses to previously unreachable places.
- Researchers have demonstrated that they can use cells shed by a fetus into the amniotic fluid to grow organoids, potentially enhancing prenatal diagnoses of conditions like spina bifida.
- Despite extensive evidence that AI-powered products are hard to control and often behave in unpredictable ways, tech companies are rushing these products to launch.
- A new idea for making self-driving cars that can go anywhere involves using reinforcement learning, an AI technique that trains a neural network to perform a task via trial and error.