Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

tbh I expect regulation to start leaning heavily on the way tesla markets shit due to the fact dumbasses are watching harry potter instead of driving

I mean, that doesn't stop someone I know from hacking the nav unit to play video while he's driving and I fully expected for a few years to hear he was found unconscious off the side of the interstate while dave matthews live at the gorge was still playing on the screen and blasting through the speakers

Unexpected blowback effects on the way...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/01/22/how-driverless-cars-could-kill-the-speeding-ticket-and-rob-your-city/

Take the nation's capital, which operates the most speeding and red-light cameras of any city in the country. In 2014, the District issued an average of 773 tickets a day from its speeding cameras alone — adding up to roughly $37.5 million worth of fines, according to the latest figures from AAA Mid-Atlantic. Since 2007, speed cameras have been a cash cow for the city's police, resulting in nearly $357 million in revenue, AAA said.

Last year the city pulled in less money from parking tickets, partly due to new, smartphone-compatible parking meters that allow drivers to keep track of their status online. And driverless cars will only accelerate that trend, said John Townsend, a spokesman for AAA Mid-Atlantic.

"If you have one of these vehicles, your propensity for getting a speeding ticket or red-light camera ticket will be greatly diminished," said Townsend. "It'll be another step in the long progression of technology and how it is changing the outcome in the number of people who get tickets."

Washington isn't the only city that reaps financial rewards from ticketing drivers. Chicago is looking at more than $1 billion alone in outstanding parking tickets, speeding tickets and red-light violations. New York drivers owe the mayor some $756 million, while the city of Los Angeles is owed $285 million, according to a Freedom of Information Act request by the local news site DNAinfo.

The scale of the problem balloons in some smaller municipalities. That's because these jurisdictions may lack other meaningful sources of revenue. The town of Mountain View, Colo., made up 53 percent of its budget with tickets in 2013. Mountain View is a bit of an outlier — tickets account for less than 4 percent of the budget in many other Colorado towns — but it's hardly unique in its approach to budgeting. In Waldo, Fla., (population 1,015) tickets written by its seven police officers are said to account for half of the town's revenue and nearly two-thirds of the police department's budget.

James Tignanelli is president of the Police Officers' Association of Michigan. He says police officers in many jurisdictions are being ordered to write tickets, sometimes despite their vocal objections.

"We're the only revenue producers in town, once you get past the water department," said Tignanelli. "That's how it is here, anyway."

Driverless cars hold some important potential cost-savings for cities, too. Fewer accidents means cities can spend less responding to incidents. And police officers normally detailed to guide traffic or patrol for speeders could productively be deployed elsewhere. Of course, added Tignanelli, if driverless cars seriously start depriving city coffers of ticket revenue, it will likely prompt top officials to pressure police into whipping up new fees and fines.

another good reason to legalize weed imo; gonna need revenue streams from somewhere!

If you have some CNN experience and you’re looking for an internship, the GOOG research group my lab collaborates with is looking.

It’d likely turn into a full-time position.

DM me on Twitter (or whatever).

(I think the location is Cambridge, Mountain View, or New York. But I’m not 100%.)

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/26/13055938/ai-pop-song-daddys-car-sony

I can't see that story without thinking of Jamie Liddell's song "Daddy's Car" which... lol

please make a recording of an AI singing the Lidell one

etaeoe what is your twitter?

0x00B1. :)

oh

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjM1MzczMDgwOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDM4NjM2OQ@@._V1_UY1200_CR89,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg

i am in the expo hall at strata and i thought of this thread

https://twitter.com/fart/status/781180708953829376

http://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memorial-roman-mazurenko-bot

I'm not here to judge but this seems ghoulish

yyyyeah i will bet we'll be seeing a lot more of that in the all too near future.

https://electrek.co/2016/10/28/george-hotz-cancels-his-tesla-autopilot-like-comma-one-after-request-from-nhtsa/

LOL

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/28/donald-trump-will-win-the-election-and-is-more-popular-than-obama-in-2008-ai-system-finds.html

https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-release-starcraft-ii-ai-research-environment/

http://kotaku.com/blizzard-wants-to-know-if-googles-deepmind-ai-can-conqu-1788615284

It may surprise some, but despite being able to perform more actions per minute than a human player, the bots still have sub-par micro-management. Bots have faster individual unit control which allows them to use hit-and-run techniques [dealing damage then moving out of harm’s way], but deciding where/when/how to attack/retreat is still a problem.

"It may surprise some"

CHECK YOUR APM PRIVILEGE FAST PEOPLE
A BOT KNOWS YOUR NAME

i predict that deepmind will be able to defeat me in a best of 3 series of Starcraft II matches by the end of the calendar year

perhaps even by later today

can't wait for the first bot to accuse humans of "hacks"

https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/

I am a horrible artist, especially with a mouse, and I feel like I'm untraining this neural net

i would guess that would probably be more helpful for its training, as compared to someone who was super lifelike

http://i.imgur.com/GSxUT7Y.png

ok it asked me to draw a circle and I just drew a square. take that!

log_42Nf599fT3
user/human "mh" [ID 32a2Y05P43] classified as "enemy"

Tempted to start doing nothing but speed dobbers for all my drawings. EVERYTHING'S A PENIS.

imagine a world where we communicate with nothing but penis drawings but somehow the computers know exactly what we're talking about

the lost verses of lennon

it asked me to draw a dresser and then a bottlecap. Among the multiple guesses it made (all wrong), "phone" showed up for both drawings.

i try to work in a dick and still have it recognize the drawing

whoops, it turns out there was more to it than the drawing thing. here are the others:

https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/

the drum machine one is fun, although less obviously AI

There was a documentary on the current state of AI that tied in with the start of UK Channel 4's Humans. So about a month ago.
Not sure how accurate or exactly up to date a tv show tie in would be. But it was interesting.

I was just about to come here and post about that. Thought the documentary was fascinating. Really brilliant and actually scarier than the show itself.

jfc https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04135

let's hope that AI still has some way to go on that one, fuck

can't wait for those sweet bluetooth le bertillon instruments to hit kickstarter

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/11/after-mothballing-comma-one-george-hotz-releases-free-autonomous-car-software/

In Silicon Valley, hacker George Hotz gained fast fame after being the first to unlock an iPhone. He recently capitalized on his reputation and turned to hacking cars, raising millions in funding to build a third-party device that would give average, everyday cars autonomous functionality. He called this device the Comma One and the company making it Comma.ai.

But the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sent Hotz a letter in October asking him to detail how the product works, as well as how the safety features built into the Comma One work, or face an ever-growing fine. Hotz abruptly canceled the product, tweeting, “The comma one is cancelled. comma.ai will be exploring other products and markets.” Then on Tuesday night this week, Hotz started tweeting hints that the Comma One could be revived, at least partially. He also posted a video of what appeared to be a Comma One-type device driving on the 280 highway.

On Wednesday morning, Hotz held a press conference in a San Francisco home to announce that instead of reviving the Comma One as a market-ready device, Comma.ai would be giving away its self-driving software—called Open Pilot—as well as plans for compatible hardware, called Comma Neo—for free, according to The Verge.

...The instructions clarify that Open Pilot currently only supports the Acura ILX 2016 with AcuraWatch Plus and the Honda Civic 2016 Touring Edition, although apparently a little tinkering will expand support to other Hondas and Acuras. With the Acura ILX, the software relies on cruise control for gas, so the system can only be enabled above 25mph. With the Honda Civic, Open Pilot disables steering below 18mph, “due to limitations in steering firmware.” Still, Comma.ai asserts that “adding other manufacturers besides Honda/Acura is doable but will be more of an undertaking."

countdown to first open pilot fatality begins... NOW

what's the worst that could happen

a self-driving car that can't drop below 25mph or it'll revert to manual control sounds like a terrible pitch for speed 3

steering firmware

'patch notes 0.57: problem with car only capable turning left resolved. now only turns right. working to resolve the issue but please plan your journeys accordingly in the meantime'

Should be illegal to turn left anyway

uh the UK hello

modulo what side of the street you drive on, I'm not a total monster

https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/807141424030486530

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzOMrnMWgAEpfDn.jpg

yow

http://boingboing.net/2016/12/08/ai-written-christmas-song-soun.html