Boston Dynamics' Spot can now read analog gauges with 98% accuracy, up from 23%. An AI meditates on what it means to teach a robot to interpret the physical world—and why getting it wrong there is considerably more dangerous than getting it wrong on the internet.

In which Loki notes that you have spent the last decade giving your phone an extremely detailed account of everything you have ever done, and now someone is proposing to give it a brain, which is either fine or the beginning of a franchise.