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Apple meets California officials to discuss self-driving car
- dzhiurgis 11y agoI am just wondering, could Apple's partnership with IBM got them access to TrueNorth chips to gain competitive advantage against Googles car?
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoWhile that makes sense on paper, in practice do those chips provide better support for networked, autonomous activities? I haven't heard much about their usages just some PR things about them so I'm genuinely curious.
- Moshe_Silnorin 11y agoThe machine learning people I know have been very unimpressed with it. From the little I understand, it cannot run the style of neural network that have been breaking records.
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoHmm that sounds unfortunate. I'll have to try to look into it further because I didn't even know about them before and they sound really interesting.
- JesperRavn 11y agoTrueNorth chips would probably be a competitive disadvantage. I found Yann LeCun's critique[0] compelling. In short, simulating the brain via spiking neurons is less efficient than just doing the floating point math like regular neural nets do. [0] https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10152184295832143 https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10152184295832143
- jMyles 11y agoIt's just normal now for huge companies to meet with government "regulators" who have the power to empower or disable their business model and that of their competition.
- qmalxp 11y agoWas it ever not normal?
- jMyles 11y agoI really don't know. I assume that you are correct that it has been normal at various times throughout history - the railroads come to mind for sure. But it seems to me - and I have no special insight on this per se - that technology companies have dramatically increased their reliance on insider contacts in government in the past... I dunno, 5 years? Something like that? Maybe 10? I sat through pitch week at BluePrint in NYC and I was absolutely floored at how many companies (seriously almost every single one) openly described the advantages they thought they had as a result of odd or even outright unethical health-care 'regulations.'
- gnaritas 11y agoHow else do you propose new technology become legal if not by meeting with government regulators to promote change? You can't just sell self driving cars because you want to, the law must first be addressed.
- jMyles 11y agoI propose that "legal" is the default state for new inventions. The time and manner of invention and evolution do not yield to government nor even recognize its purview. I think it's becoming clear to all of us that the internet will not abide government and I really don't want it to have to come to a head in the form of violence. Think about it this way: Seven generations hence, do you really think that internet will be a triviality to be 'regulated' by cronies?
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- BinaryIdiot 11y agoInteresting; I wonder if they'll actually attempt to go to market with this thing or if it's just one of their many experimental projects that never sees the light of day. I'd love to see more competition in this space regardless.
- huuu 11y agoTo me it feels Apple and Uber are years behind Google. Today it's not very difficult to build a self driving car. But over the years Google developed a gigantic network of all kinds of data used by the cars.