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Algorithms · September 2020Gaffe level: Typo

YouTube brings back more human moderators after AI systems over-censor

When YouTube leaned harder on AI moderation during the pandemic, its robots started nuking harmless videos left and right. The humans had to be brought back to clean up the robots' mess.

Source: The Verge

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A Thought-Controlled Bionic Arm Moved Into Its First Home Trial

Robots · October 2026 Kudos level: Legend

Avi Davidson, who lost his left arm 17 years ago, is the first person to take the University of Utah's thought-controlled LUKE Arm home for a full year. The direct nerve interface lets him move the arm with his thoughts and feel pressure and texture through it, so within days he was making a sandwich and holding his wife's hand.

Source: University of Utah

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