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Spam detection in the physical world (blog.openai.com)
65 points by raccoonone on April 1, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


It took me forever to realize this was an April Fools joke (or so I think). Even the adversarial spam made me think "idk why you would do it but that is interesting". Maybe my bias to trust most things from certain sources. :)


While the application is indeed a joke, the technique for sim-to-real transfer (and the robotic system in the post) is very real: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06907 :).


You kind of get the sense of living in the future when technology that would have been pure sci-fi within your own past is not only real now, but used for a frivolous joke.


Pretty elaborate for an April Fools' joke.


I believe it should end up in the Spam folder, not in the Trash! this robot is lazy


would not be welcome in Hawaii




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