Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

https://medium.com/kylevogt/how-were-solving-the-lidar-problem-8b4363ff30db

SAN FRANCISCO — The self-driving car is edging closer to becoming driverless.

Waymo, the autonomous car company from Google’s parent company Alphabet, has started testing a fleet of self-driving vehicles without any backup drivers on public roads, its chief executive said Tuesday. The tests, which will include passengers within the next few months, mark an important milestone that brings autonomous vehicle technology closer to operating without any human intervention.

Dozens of companies are testing self-driving technology on public roads across the United States and some autonomous features are available in today’s cars. But Waymo is believed to be the first company to test vehicles on public roads without a driver ready to take over in an emergency.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/technology/waymo-autonomous-cars.html

edging closer to saving many lives

Ironically, hands free driving will likely lead to a lot of in car edging

it's like rain on your wedding day
it's a hands-free ride when you've already edged

i wonder if the engineers have thought about what to do about the rise in masturbation in driverless cars

the LIDAR is powered by a thermoelectric mitten in a system that just assumes you will always be masturbating

karl you are winning today

i wonder if the engineers have thought about what to do about the rise in masturbation in driverless cars

those sensors have to work with just as much accuracy pointed inwards if they want to avoid being a fleet of mobile toilets

every day is a new opportunity

similar to how a solution to secure voting systems might be a return to paper ballots, maybe driverless taxies will just install a security camera pointing at the passenger and a sign saying "you're on camera!".

this is all pretty gross but i kind of like this idea of a really seedy driverless future

anonymous cam-porn in driverless ubers is a million dollar idea waiting to happen

do we have a "million dollar idea waiting to happen" thread? i should get on that.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Driverless-shuttle-bus-crashes-after-launch-in-12342316.php

whoa
https://i.imgur.com/Z9LzJXV.png

(full video at https://imgur.com/gallery/zzQv0NB)

(see also https://imgur.com/gallery/zzQv0NB)

dammit i meant (see also https://i.imgur.com/ACwNd7Q.gifv)

^ unsettlingly like a Robocop figure.

There should be a HMB subreddit for robots.

Not quite what you're asking for, but there is https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyrobots/
https://i.imgur.com/e7qOJXE.gifv

Gah, gifv doesn't work here, I guess? ShittyØystein

https://hackernoon.com/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal-net-neutrality-comments-were-likely-faked-e9f0e3ed36a6

NY Attorney General Schneiderman estimated that hundreds of thousands of Americans’ identities were stolen and used in spam campaigns that support repealing net neutrality. My research found at least 1.3 million fake pro-repeal comments, with suspicions about many more. In fact, the sum of fake pro-repeal comments in the proceeding may number in the millions. In this post, I will point out one particularly egregious spambot submission, make the case that there are likely many more pro-repeal spambots yet to be confirmed, and estimate the public position on net neutrality in the “organic” public submissions.

Key Findings:
One pro-repeal spam campaign used mail-merge to disguise 1.3 million comments as unique grassroots submissions.
There were likely multiple other campaigns aimed at injecting what may total several million pro-repeal comments into the system.
It’s highly likely that more than 99% of the truly unique comments³ were in favor of keeping net neutrality.

https://i.imgur.com/Gzmg6ph.png

can we just agree that computers were mainly a bad idea?

Absolutely

i'm a computer stop all the downloading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rD2b2lmIS4

o_O

Sure, when SHE talks about her emotions people want to listen

so, chess is over then

https://www.chess.com/news/view/google-s-alphazero-destroys-stockfish-in-100-game-match

actually these games are stunning to watch

“...The ability of a machine to replicate and surpass centuries of human knowledge in complex closed systems is a world-changing tool."

Barf no it isn’t

Solve climate change and peace in the Middle East you fucking drips

Maybe they can AlphaZero saving littoral biodiversity I mean if that’s not a complex closed system what is

Otm ^

Current humanoids are rudimentary as best, more of a PR opp for investors. Guy who said they're lobotomized cockroaches was right

so tired of these cockroaches beating my chess algorithms after learning chess in 4 hours

i know the underdamped oscillations of our convergence to reality pass through that reality at some point, but we never seem to sample anywhere near it itt

what are 'humanoids' in this context?

ah, sorrry, I missed the robot thing above

frankie muniz weighs in

I do not want a driverless car. Ever. Think about it. Automatic sinks barely turn on when your hands are under them... But a car will drive itself.

— Frankie Muniz (@frankiemuniz) December 7, 2017

he's right but in a dumb way

(he's right because cars are bad and immoral)

Ralph Nader III, "Unsafe at any level of driver sentience"

automatic sinks. automobiles. autothink about it.

aw shit you're one of them

if they put vision systems on faucets, amazon and google would save/use/sell our hands information. Jewel put it best wrt this one.

have u thought about if you came face to face with an AI robot, are we morally obligated to punk the shit out of them and bully them until they realize that no one will ever love them

what if AI gets very good and just carts us about at the gentlest speeds, being ever so careful, thinking "jesus christ you all were crazy before"

i dont trust these robots at all, i will fuck one up one day

taking cyberbullying to the next level, BET

i only use constructive criticism with my roomba

my roomba secretly seething that i'd evacuate from fire without it, though

I thought the fact that automatic sinks don't work half the time was intentional - water-saving innit

And because automatic taps that always came on at the slightest hand movement would be getting set off all the time by small changes in atmospheric pressure, that sort of thing.

Wat if AI boy racers

https://www.avclub.com/anti-homeless-robot-covered-in-barbecue-sauce-given-we-1821337323

nice to see a heartwarming story around xmas time