Radar trends to watch: November 2021

The design studio Artefact has created a game to teach middle school students about algorithmic bias. Researchers are building large natural language models, potentially the size of GPT-3, to decode the "speech" of whales. A group at Berkeley has built a robot that uses reinforcement learning to teach itself to walk from scratch–i.e., through trial and error. They used two levels of simulation before loading the model into a physical robot. AI is reinventing computers: AI is driving new kinds of CPUs, new "out of the box" form factors (doorbells, appliances), decision-making rather than traditional computation.