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I’m confused about your reasoning. Translating scanned printed material into a searchable text is a social good, but providing safer transportation…that additio
by IggleSniggle 5y ago
I’m confused about your reasoning. Translating scanned printed material into a searchable text is a social good, but providing safer transportation…that additionally may one day free drivers of the menial work of driving…that is not a social good?
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoAgreed. The problem, of course, is that the dataset is exclusive to Google, so while it may benefit society it's not creating a public good. But that's also true for text OCR.
- josefx 5y ago> but providing safer transportation. Which will be available any day now, probably as early as 2018 if experts on the field can be believed. Some would even go so far as state that by 2025 private car ownership will be a thing of the past. > that is not a social good? Hype, empty promises and constantly moving deadlines. If this goes on we will have commercial fusion reactors before self driving has any positive impact outside of heavily supervised trials.
- thesuitonym 5y agoA better way to make safer transportation that may free drivers of the menial work of driving is to design cities that don't require people to drive.
- IggleSniggle 5y agoI agree with you on this, and I'm glad you mention it. I think it might be a tangential topic to the relative positive impact to text-recognition / road-condition-recognition, though.