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There's something exciting about watching that, and knowing that it was software figuring that out, and not a human. Even more exciting is that sort of offhande

There's something exciting about watching that, and knowing that it was software figuring that out, and not a human. Even more exciting is that sort of offhanded hope at the end of the article, because yeah, we're eventually going to see a period when human and machine drivers compete. I don't know how long that period will last; maybe it will be like the history of humans vs computers at chess, or maybe it will be more like Go.

codyb 10y ago
I'd imagine it more to be like chess. Physical manuevering seems to me to be the type of problem a tireless computer with 360 degrees of sensors would be perfect at optimizing for. Especially combined with the incredible amount of data that could be generated by almost any fraction of the current vehicular use world wide. Very cool stuff. It's very exciting. Watching that rally car go was really cool.
- EGreg 10y ago
  Once robotz are better at driving, running, getting over obstacles and thinking than humans, it might be pretty scary if someone sends a swarm of relentless robots after you. And of course they'd be be far stronger and equipped with ways to easily incapacitate you. Then we'd have AI that can subvert human systems that until now relied on adversaries not continuously optimizing and taking advantage of loopholes and building on previous results at lightning speed. Privacy, for instance, is easily circumvented by any algorithm that has access to an array of methods. It is also easy to have a virus take advantage of basic vulnerabilities of your typical web setup (eg Wordpress) and set up a botnet real fast. But beyond that, voting, trust between friends, reputation, and our laws themselves can all be subverted by an algorithm designed to achieve a certain outcome. In short, it seems the future would consist of the equivalent of everyone having a nuke with which they can wreak havoc at any time.
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    https://xkcd.com/728/ https://xkcd.com/728/ "Maybe we're all gonna die, but we're gonna die in really cool ways."

codyb 10y ago

I'd imagine it more to be like chess. Physical manuevering seems to me to be the type of problem a tireless computer with 360 degrees of sensors would be perfect at optimizing for. Especially combined with the incredible amount of data that could be generated by almost any fraction of the current vehicular use world wide. Very cool stuff. It's very exciting. Watching that rally car go was really cool.

EGreg 10y ago
Once robotz are better at driving, running, getting over obstacles and thinking than humans, it might be pretty scary if someone sends a swarm of relentless robots after you. And of course they'd be be far stronger and equipped with ways to easily incapacitate you. Then we'd have AI that can subvert human systems that until now relied on adversaries not continuously optimizing and taking advantage of loopholes and building on previous results at lightning speed. Privacy, for instance, is easily circumvented by any algorithm that has access to an array of methods. It is also easy to have a virus take advantage of basic vulnerabilities of your typical web setup (eg Wordpress) and set up a botnet real fast. But beyond that, voting, trust between friends, reputation, and our laws themselves can all be subverted by an algorithm designed to achieve a certain outcome. In short, it seems the future would consist of the equivalent of everyone having a nuke with which they can wreak havoc at any time.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  https://xkcd.com/728/ https://xkcd.com/728/ "Maybe we're all gonna die, but we're gonna die in really cool ways."