Mar 14th, 2017: Deep Learning

[xoxoxoBruce]

But it works fine on top of my mattress.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

But it works fine on top of my mattress.

And would it fit in a "child sized" soda cup? @ 48 sec

[xoxoxoBruce]

Deep Learning is raising it's ugly head in a new way.

Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The experimental vehicle, developed by researchers at the chip maker Nvidia, didn’t look different from other autonomous cars, but it was unlike anything demonstrated by Google, Tesla, or General Motors, and it showed the rising power of artificial intelligence. The car didn’t follow a single instruction provided by an engineer or programmer. Instead, it relied entirely on an algorithm that had taught itself to drive by watching a human do it.

Heh heh, I'd teach that sucker something.

Getting a car to drive this way was an impressive feat. But it’s also a bit unsettling, since it isn’t completely clear how the car makes its decisions. Information from the vehicle’s sensors goes straight into a huge network of artificial neurons that process the data and then deliver the commands required to operate the steering wheel, the brakes, and other systems.... The system is so complicated that even the engineers who designed it may struggle to isolate the reason for any single action. And you can’t ask it: there is no obvious way to design such a system so that it could always explain why it did what it did.

"Isn't completely clear" is tech speak for Idunno.

The mysterious mind of this vehicle points to a looming issue with artificial intelligence. The car’s underlying AI technology, known as deep learning, has proved very powerful at solving problems in recent years, and it has been widely deployed for tasks like image captioning, voice recognition, and language translation. There is now hope that the same techniques will be able to diagnose deadly diseases, make million-dollar trading decisions, and do countless other things to transform whole industries.

But this won’t happen—or shouldn’t happen—unless we find ways of making techniques like deep learning more understandable to their creators and accountable to their users.

Imagine one of those Boston Dynamics robots with this. They're taking the next big leap toward our Robot Overlords.

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[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

But it works fine on top of my mattress.

And in the pool.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

And in the pool.

I sincerely doubt it.

Think about how little water that blow up lace displaces. If you're not movin the water away with what you're "floating" on, you're gonna be in the water. Water's heavy but not that heavy.