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> The dog has a lot of false positives from the cameras being triggered by car headlights or small animals. My real dog has the same feature, so you’re at leas
by dvtrn 4y ago
> The dog has a lot of false positives from the cameras being triggered by car headlights or small animals.
My real dog has the same feature, so you’re at least doing a good job mimicking nature, heh.
- kleer001 4y agoInteresting! They might be both working from a similar algorithm.
- smsm42 4y agoThe dog also doesn't come with an off switch in case you have an important meeting with your CEO, taking it in your home office and there's a squirrel running around...
- dvtrn 4y agoOh dear. Can’t say I’ve had that problem...really ever. How many squirrels have you had to chase/escort out so far?
- andrewflnr 4y agoOh, I'm sure a squirrel outside is plenty to cause a problem. My dogs have historically not needed anything at all to actually be moving outside to trigger an endless barking spree.
- dvtrn 4y agoThe barking sure (though I set up my office in the basement because FAMILY LOUD and so when they go off, it's pretty well muffled and people on zoom calls don't even hear it), it was the "bringing a squirrel inside and then setting it loose in the house" part that I was wondering about, ha.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoI think you're confusing some awkward phrasing from the poster. They were taking the meeting with the CEO in their home office, and the squirrel was running around presumably outside causing the dog to bark. But I can see how you read it as thet were having a meeting and the dog brought a squirrel into the home office and ran around.
- smsm42 4y agoThat would be worse, but if we let the dog actually catch the squirrel it won't be running anymore... But we try very hard for that not to happen.
- smsm42 4y agoNo I meant it is running around outside. Often literally around because there are fruit trees in the garden around the exit from the house, and there's a big glass door where the dog can see outside. The squirrels learn pretty quickly that we don't want the dog to actually catch the squirrel (who knows what it has eaten and what diseases it may have), but to the dog it's hard to see squirrel just going about its business right under his nose...
- smsm42 4y agoYep. Especially given big glass doors and squirrels that quickly realize barking dog behind the glass door poses no danger whatsoever, so it's ok to proceed with their business.
- Veen 4y agoOne of the cats in our neighborhood likes to sit in front of our glass doors to antagonize our dog. The dog goes nuts and the cat sits there washing itself.
- technothrasher 4y agoI don't know about during a meeting, but my count of squirrels I've had to chase/escort out of my house currently stands at two. Although only one escort was successful. The other one I thought had left, but I found its desiccated body under the ashes in my fireplace about a week later.
- mlcrypto 4y agoThat reminds me of the argument about sentience lately. Why can't a neural network be sentient if all our actions have been trained by interacting with the world since birth?
- netr0ute 4y agoIf our minds are like computer neural networks, then we can only achieve sentience by priming an existing "human person" neural model with data, which is how every human has worked.
- tremon 4y agoThe operative word in your comment being "actions". What "actions" can (current generation) neural networks undertake? Can they initiate anything? Can they choose their own learning material? Can they even choose when or whether to repeat a certain training set? There was a recent HN comment about this that I think illustrates the point well [0]: experimentation is an act on the world to set its state and then measure it. That's what learning involves. These machines do not act on the world, they just capture correlations. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32201757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32201757
- uj8efdjkfdshf 4y agoBecause most people define sentience as 'a black box that reacts meaningfully to inputs in a sufficiently unpredictable and inexplicable manner', and for most people (especially researchers in these fields), current neural networks do not meet this bar.
- goindeep 4y agoHaha came here to say the same thing. My stupid dog barks at everything. The wind, the sun, the rain, ants, if he thinks im home, if he thinks im leaving, if he sees me, if he doesnt see me, he even barks in his friggin sleep. Does he bark when he needs to take a piss or a shit and needs to go outside? Nope. Prick.
- worthless-trash 4y agoTrain your dog to piss or shit. If your dog likes food it should be very possible.
- wadely 4y agoIt's definitely a feature. Next door get a delivery? Trigger!
- FerretFred 4y agoCame here to say that :) Our recently-adopted rescue terrier will bark at anything. Right now he's especially targeting birds that dare to land on our (his!) bird feeder.
- rejectedstone 4y agoCertainly a feature. I recommend a sensitivity level which uses breeds for each level. I further recommend the highest sensitivity be "Great Pyrenees" as I can attest my dog barks at every false positive.