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We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim Harford (Financial Times, BBC, author of “The Data Detective”) brings you stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, and hilarious fiascos. They'll delight you, scare you, but also make you wiser. New episodes every Friday.
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Ken Goldberg is at the forefront of robotics — which means he tries to teach machines to do things humans find trivial.
- SOURCES:
- Ken Goldberg, professor of industrial engineering and operations research at U.C. Berkeley.
- RESOURCES:
- "The Bitter Lesson," by Rich Sutton (UT Austin, 2019).
- R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue, by Karel Capek (2019).
- "The Robot in the Cloud: A Conversation With Ken Goldberg," by Quentin Hardy (New York Times, 2014).
- Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence, by Hans Moravec (1990).
- "Stochastic Plans for Robotic Manipulation," by Ken Goldberg (Carnegie Mellon University, 1990).
- "The Two Cultures And The Scientific Revolution," by C. P. Snow (Cambridge University Press, 1959).
- Dex-Net
- Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology.
- Ambi Robotics.
- "The Telegarden."
- EXTRAS:
- "Feeling Sound and Hearing Color," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).
- "Are Our Tools Becoming Part of Us?" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).
- “My God, This Is a Transformative Power,” by People I (Mostly) Admire (2023).
- "Drawing from Life (and Death)" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2023).
- "Aicha Evans Wants You to Take Your Eyes Off the Road," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2021).
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