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'''<span style="color:#FF0000">Pick of the week:</span> '''  
 
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[https://karpathy.github.io/2022/03/14/lecun1989/ Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now] a blog by Andrej Karpathy <BR>
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[https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robot-scaling Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype - The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about] <BR>
 
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[https://eng.bigai.ai/ Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI)] "Pursuing a Unified Theory of Artificial Intelligence to Create General Intelligent Agents for Lifting Humanity" '''but not based on foundation models'''; <BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/28/ai-psychosis-chatgpt-openai-sam-altman AI psychosis is a growing danger. ChatGPT is moving in the wrong direction] Amandeep Jutla, The Guardian <BR>
see also this insightful [https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/16/song-chun-zhu-why-one-of-the-worlds-most-brilliant-ai-scientists-left-the-us-for-china article] about Song-Chun Zhu, the director of BIGAI, and his vision of the future of AI <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0-a64152b37c35 Software 2.0] a blog by Andrej Karpathy (it's from 2017, but still worth reading) <BR>
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[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/opinion/ai-us-china.html The One Danger That Should Unite the U.S. and China]; also see [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/opinion/us-china-ai-trust.html Tom Friedman’s A.I. Nightmare and What the U.S. Can Do to Avoid It]<BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBc_BHxw78s&list=PLUMWjy5jgHK1NC52DXXrriwihVrYZKqjk&index=1 Why Learn Control Theory] video with links to several short follow-on videos on all aspects of control theory <BR>  
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBc_BHxw78s&list=PLUMWjy5jgHK1NC52DXXrriwihVrYZKqjk&index=1 Why Learn Control Theory] video with links to several short follow-on videos on all aspects of control theory <BR>  
 
[https://rememberingthe1916rising.wordpress.com/ Remembering The 1916 Rising] A collection of information and memorabilia commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland<BR>  
 
[https://rememberingthe1916rising.wordpress.com/ Remembering The 1916 Rising] A collection of information and memorabilia commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland<BR>  
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=== AI in Europe ===
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=== AI and Robotics in Europe ===
  
 
[[AI in Europe | A collection of links]] that map Europe's strategy for human-centric, sustainable, secure, inclusive, and trustworthy AI and robotics
 
[[AI in Europe | A collection of links]] that map Europe's strategy for human-centric, sustainable, secure, inclusive, and trustworthy AI and robotics
  
 
=== AI and Robotics in Africa ===  
 
=== AI and Robotics in Africa ===  
[[AI and Robotics in Africa | A collection of links]] mapping out the many aspects of AI and robotics in Africa
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[[AI and Robotics in Africa | A collection of links]] that catalogue the many initiatives on AI and robotics in Africa
  
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[[Robotics: Principles and Practice]] <BR>
 
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=== Research ===
 
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[http://www.vernon.eu/research.htm Research Activities] <BR>
 
[http://www.vernon.eu/research.htm Research Activities] <BR>

Latest revision as of 12:55, 1 December 2025

Pick of the week: Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype - The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about
Previous Picks of the Week

AI and Robotics in Europe

A collection of links that map Europe's strategy for human-centric, sustainable, secure, inclusive, and trustworthy AI and robotics

AI and Robotics in Africa

A collection of links that catalogue the many initiatives on AI and robotics in Africa

Teaching

Support material for some of the courses on my main website.

Algorithms and Data Structures (support material)
Applied Computer Vision
Artificial Cognitive Systems
Data Structures and Algorithms for Engineers software development environment
Cognitive Robotics
Principles of Computer Programming code snippets
Robotics: Principles and Practice

Research

Research Activities

Talks and Presentations

Talks and Presentations

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Unpacking Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Links

A collection of links to resources on many topics of personal interest