Front matterWe already recorded this.Battle in the ‘BurghThe whole tournament on YouTubePlus whiteboards and shenanigensHow to watch a live event‘Fixing’ the Battlebots metaSpinners badWeight bonuses for non-spinners?Are weight bonuses effective?How do you decide how much is enough?Walker/shuffler bonusesShuffler bonus for UK Beetles dropped from 50% to 33% in June 2019Battlebots used to acknowledge that unsticks happenSOW went 7-0 as a Heavyweight shuffler, and 2-4 as a SuperheavyweightRemoving Battlebots’ extra barriers to non-spinner successArena hazardsLess intrusive pit designs:Robot Ruckus’ walled-off corner pitThe ‘side pocket’Judging criteriaRobogames judging (ctrl+f ‘flip over’ to find relevant section)Say what you want about Robogames, this is a pretty good set of judging rulesA general discussion about AI and Machine LearningA conversation driven by the sordid tale of Apple’s ‘sexist’ credit cardDefining AI, Machine Learning, and AGI (for the purposes of this discussion)AI: A decision-making system designed by a human. Can be debugged.Machine Learning: A system which produces a decision-making system. Built and then trained, can’t really be debugged.Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): Sci-fi version of AI which is, or appears to be, a human-level intelligence. Don’t worry about it. Yet.Current uses of AI/MLImage/video processingGoogle’s image compressionYouTube’s video compressionSocial mediaHow it all worksThe wonderful, wholesome, entirely benevolent Netflix algorithmSam’s experiences with RedditPromoting controversy/outrageBad technology vs technology being used by bad peopleSetting ‘goals’ for ML systemsFinance (and other stuff)How bias can develop within an ML systemThe Apple caseHow bias is picked upWhy bias might not be detectedMedicineCancer detectionWhat happens when the machine causes a human death?The impact of one life lost vs x lives savedPotential bad implementations of the technologyCrime ‘prevention’Predicting reoffendingOpportunities for bias presented by data which would likely be used for trainingHow to be better
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