Category: Technical Labour

Amazon patents zeppelin warehouse with drone delivery system.

Amazon patents zeppelin warehouse with drone delivery system.

Described is an airborne fulfillment center (“AFC”) and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAV”) to deliver items from the AFC to users. For example, the AFC may be an airship that remains at a high altitude (e.g., 45,000 feet) and UAVs with ordered items may be deployed from the AFC to deliver ordered items to user to and from the AFC.

http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=9305280.PN.&OS=PN/9305280&RS=PN/9305280

A really good read. Machine learning had certainly come a long way in a short time.

A really good read. Machine learning had certainly come a long way in a short time.

The stuff about Google Translate is also great news for my daughters who both study Japanese. Google Translate has up until now been truly terrible at translating Asian languages but perhaps this is no longer the case. If so this is going to make a whole series of texts accessible for the first time instead of being comically opaque.

Here’s an example of the kind of unintentional linguistic comedy Google Translate has been previously famous for:

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/shibboleth-users/EjvS2Cgio6c

Originally shared by Roberto Bayardo

Long but good read about the Google Brain team’s work on language translation, and its implications on “general” (or at least “more general”) AI.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html