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		whatfor on Oct 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Boston Dynamics Unleashes Wildcat, the Sprinting Q... Excellent example. But we also failed to build the necessary safeguards to prevent using the Internet as a massive surveillance machine. When will we learn something from our past failures?

mturmon on Oct 5, 2013 [–]

Our past track record is pretty uneven, that's for sure. One starting point is here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/AAAI_P...

whatfor on Oct 5, 2013 | [–]

Thanks, interesting initiative.

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