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Last Week in AI #138: Singapore trials surveillance robots, Deepfake voice used to rob a bank, Google studies the limits of large-scale pretraining
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Last Week in AI #138: Singapore trials surveillance robots, Deepfake voice used to rob a bank, Google studies the limits of large-scale pretraining

Singapore's patrol robots send live video feeds to the police, Google researchers study nuances of scaling large neural network models, Deepfake voice over the phone used to steal money, and more!

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Oct 18, 2021
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Singapore sends Xavier the robot to help police keep streets safe under three-week trial

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A new robot named Xavier has been developed to patrol the streets of Singapore. It is outfitted with sensors for autonomous navigation, and has a 360 degree camera feed to record what’s happening near it. Officers can receive the video feed and are able to mo…

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