Waymo 360° Experience: A Fully Autonomous Driving Journey
In briefWaymo's 2018 360-degree video lets viewers look around inside a fully driverless ride. It is built from footage and real-time data of an actual trip on city streets.
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The magic washing machine | Hans Rosling
In briefHans Rosling makes the case that the washing machine was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution. Using Gapminder graphics, he shows how electricity and economic growth free up time for reading and learning.
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Human brain mapping and brain decoding. | Jack Gallant | TEDxSanFrancisco
In briefBerkeley neuroscientist Jack Gallant shows how fMRI brain mapping can be used to decode what a person sees, with visualizations of brain activity and its implications.
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Robotic Distribution
In briefA short 2009 WIRED clip showing Kiva Systems robots moving inventory shelves in a warehouse serving online retailer Zappos. It shows how mobile robots bring goods to pickers instead of people walking the aisles.
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Unitree Introducing | Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent | AI Avatar | Price from $16K
In briefA short Unitree promo for its G1 humanoid robot, priced from $16K, showing agile motion, dexterous hands and imitation and reinforcement learning.
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You have 20 seconds to comply.
In briefThe ED-209 boardroom scene from the 1987 film RoboCop, where the enforcement droid malfunctions after giving a man 20 seconds to comply.
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RHex Rough-Terrain Robot
In briefA short Boston Dynamics demo of RHex, a 30-lb six-legged robot built for rough terrain, remotely operated with a video uplink and about four hours of battery life. It can run right-side-up or upside-down.
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George Hotz | Programming | can tinygrad whisper? | AMD Rant | Giving up on AMD | Speech to Text
In briefA long George Hotz live-stream from June 2023 in which he works on tinygrad and rants about AMD's drivers, ultimately declaring he is giving up on AMD. It also touches on hardware and compiler topics.
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Windows Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting
In briefA 2007 video of someone trying to write Perl scripts using Windows Vista speech recognition, with comically bad results. The footage shows the recognizer repeatedly mangling commands.
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Scottish Elevator - Voice Recognition - ELEVEN !
In briefA sketch from the Scottish comedy show Burnistoun in which two men cannot get a voice-recognition elevator to understand the word eleven in their accents.
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Let's Enhance
In briefA two-minute compilation of TV and film scenes where investigators say 'enhance' and a blurry image becomes sharp. It mocks the trope.
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GE Walking Truck - Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine (CAM) 1969.
In briefShort footage of the General Electric Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine, or Walking Truck, a 1960s quadruped vehicle operated by a human driver using hydraulic limbs. The uploader notes it predates Big Dog by decades.
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Volvo auto brake system fail?
In briefA one-minute clip of a Volvo automatic braking demonstration that fails to stop. The uploader finds it funny.
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New Robot Can Now Fight Back! (Corridor Digital)
In briefCorridor Digital's comedic fake video of a Boston Dynamics robot fighting back against its human tormentors, made with motion capture and VFX.
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✖️Coronavirus TIMELINE
In briefA data-visualization style timeline of the early coronavirus outbreak events by YouTuber Nathan Rich. It lays out dates of key developments in China.
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Does AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity? (100k Devs Study) - Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Stanford
In briefYegor Denisov-Blanch of Stanford presents a study of nearly 100,000 developers at hundreds of companies, measuring how AI affects productivity from commit data. It finds an average boost of about 20% with wide variance by codebase, task complexity and stack.
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Atlas Gets a Grip | Boston Dynamics
In briefBoston Dynamics shows its humanoid robot Atlas picking up and manipulating objects, and altering the obstacle course to reach its goal. The clip demonstrates locomotion, sensing and athletic manipulation.
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Enemy of the state - Freeze,Rotate,Zoom,Focus,Enhance!
In briefA one-minute scene from the film Enemy of the State showing absurdly implausible image enhancement, with freezing, rotating, zooming and focusing on a video.
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Horror Short Film “Slaughterbots” | ALTER
In briefSlaughterbots, a short dystopian film in which swarms of small autonomous drones are programmed to kill targets matching a profile. It opens as a slick product launch before turning into a terror scenario.
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HAL 9000: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
In briefA three-minute excerpt from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in which the HAL 9000 computer refuses to open the pod bay doors. It is the famous malfunctioning-AI scene.
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Atlas Goes Hands On
In briefBoston Dynamics shows the electric Atlas autonomously moving engine covers between containers and a sequencing dolly. It uses an ML vision model and grasping policy with no teleoperation or prescribed motions.
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Waymo car crashes into pole
In briefA short local news report about a Waymo self-driving car that crashed into a pole in downtown Phoenix.
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Vibe Coding Is The Future
In briefA Y Combinator video on vibe coding, the term Andrej Karpathy coined for letting LLMs write code. It reports what YC founders say about debugging, models and how much of their code is AI-written.
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Building AI Silicon
In briefJim Keller, CTO of Tenstorrent, talks at Samsung Foundry's SAFE 2021 about building AI silicon through modular, provable design. The talk also touches on Tenstorrent's RISC-V Ascalon core.
