Last week it was revealed that a Google Car had it’s first recorded crash in public. Triple J’s hack team unpacked the incident to ask whether robots really can learn to understand humans, and whether we are really ready to rely on them.
When Google set out to map the world in streetview using automatically mashed up images, there was inevitably going to be some errors. But when these glitches are of human body parts, they truly become the stuff of nightmares, as shown in this collection by Quartz.
Speaking of Google images, an impressive geospatial neural network by Google developers has surpassed human intelligence to determine the precise location of ordinary photographs taken almost anywhere on Earth. It’s only 10% successful at the city level, but as MIT Technology Review show that’s still a huge step towards machine learning.
The City Science group at Monash University has created an Indigenous Dot Map of Australia, as featured on Maps Mania. Do you know which state/territory has the largest indigenous population? Which city?
How did a Chilean newborn claim its stake over an entire continent? Atlas Obscura dissected the complex and ongoing ploys by the world’s nations to claim the world’s final frontier, Antarctica.
