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Should we be afraid of self-learning algorithms?

Self-learning algorithms determine internet search results, choose which messages you see from friends on Facebook, and may eventually even decide which drugs you will be prescribed and your punishment if you commit a crime. So, should we be afraid?

Learning to fly on their own

Teaching a robot new tricks by trial and error is less than ideal. ‘For flying robots, such a teaching method – reinforcement learning in AI jargon – is altogether wrong, because they are even more fragile’, says Dr Guido de Croon, head of the research project of the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory.

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Finding eddies and fresh water

Delft researchers are investigating how salt and nutrients are transported by ocean currents, and how submarine groundwater discharge affects coral reefs. They took part in a large research expedition across the ocean aboard the research vessel RV Pelagia, which left Texel in December last year.

Cuneiform in a scanner

Beads, bones and arrowheads. Plenty of odd objects have found their way into the micro CT scanner at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CEG), but the clay tablet scanned this spring topped the lot. It revealed 4,000-year-old fraud prevention.

Kick starting artificial life

In the quest to create artificial life, TU Delft researchers have taken an important step. They designed a strand of artificial DNA that is capable of copying itself.

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