Last Week in AI #169: Royal Mail will deliver with drones, backdoors in deep learning, AI for weather forecasts, and more!

Royal Mail will use drones to deliver to hard-to-reach areas, neural network backdoors are easy to engineer and difficult to detect, machine learning models to improve weather forecasts

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Royal Mail is Doing the Right Thing with Drone Delivery

The United Kingdom’s Royal Mail announced plans to establish more than 50 new postal drone routes over the next three years. These fully autonomous drones can carry a payload of up to 100 kilograms for 1000 kilometers. The longer-term goal is to deploy a fleet of 500 such drones servicing di…