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Counting down until consumer drones are banned in cities
I don’t even like the idea of flying delivery drones, but that will be all we have.
Nathan Lambert
Feb 26
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Clarifying RL: Obscure problem formulations and structure tradeoffs
Some debates that will be settled en route to RL being used in all corners of the modern world.
Nathan Lambert
Feb 19
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Decoupling AI from the latent variable of spoken languages
How English being the language of progress in AI could bias our machine’s minds and what we think they are capable of. Uncoupling AI from our notion of…
Nathan Lambert
Feb 12
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COVID didn’t give us personal robots, it gave us Woebot
Yes COVID accelerated automated manufacturing and logistics, but robots have not been helping out en masse anywhere else.
Nathan Lambert
Feb 5
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Boston Dynamics 🤖🐈: Studying Athletic Intelligence
The acrobatic dance videos are flashy, but what are the actual technical breakthroughs? What is happening to the Korean robotics industry?
Nathan Lambert
Jan 29
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Robotic Startups 2.0: Horizontal Modularity
How behaving as a platform rather than a manufacturer will be the sweet spot for the next generation of robotics companies.
Nathan Lambert
Jan 22
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Reflections on digital technology from a capitol siege
The digital fallout following the siege on the capital shows we are not keeping up with the pace of technological change.
Nathan Lambert
Jan 15
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Considering AIs through our own mind’s reflection
Lessons about AI from lessons about our mind. Focused on the nature of free will.
Nathan Lambert
Jan 8
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The stakeholders start to learn the stakes: predictions for ai & robotics in 2021
Most of my predictions for automation in 2021 have common people starting to learn how their lives will be impacted, and it’s up to the practitioners t…
Nathan Lambert
Jan 1
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Democratizing Automation 2020: (half) year in review
How I ended up with 26 posts in my first half year of weekly writing. What we learned and where we are going.
Nathan Lambert
Dec 22, 2020
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The Ubiquity and Future of Model-based Reinforcement Learning
Making case for why my research matters and why you want to learn about models.
Nathan Lambert
Dec 18, 2020
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Facebook Case Study 🌏🔬: Using AI to Regulate the Digital Ecosystem
The modern digital giants have data on scales unfathomable to the outside, so trying to understand how they manage deleterious information is an uphill…
Nathan Lambert
Dec 11, 2020
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