True Positive Weekly #49

The most important artificial intelligence and machine learning links of the week

Hey, in this issue: get the squirrels off one's birdfeeder with AI; researchers build AI that builds AI; a robot has operated on a pig without human help; ML and NLP research highlights of 2021; how one person can control a swarm of 130 robots; can Wikipedia help offline reinforcement learning; and more.

• [Project] Squirrel Soaker 9000: get the squirrels off one's birdfeeder with artificial intelligence (video, blog)

• Researchers build AI that builds AI

• A robot has operated on a pig without human help

• [MIT] Deploying machine learning to improve mental health

• ML and NLP research highlights of 2021

• [Wired] Google hopes AI can turn search into a conversation

• [PopSci] An inside look at how one person can control a swarm of 130 robots

• [Paper with code] Can Wikipedia help offline reinforcement learning? (paper, code)

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Have a nice weekend! See you next week. — Andriy