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Video Games Are So Realistic That They Can Teach AI What the World Looks Like (vice.com)
Jordan Pearson, reporting for Motherboard:Thanks to the modern gaming industry, we can now spend our evenings wandering around photorealistic game worlds, like the post-apocalyptic Boston of Fallout 4 or Grand Theft Auto V's Los Santos, instead of doing things like "seeing people" and "engaging in human interaction of any kind." Games these days are so realistic, in fact, that artificial intelligence researchers are using them to teach computers how to recognize objects in real life. Not only that, but commercial video games could kick artificial intelligence research into high gear by dramatically lessening the time and money required to train AI. "If you go back to the original Doom, the walls all look exactly the same and it's very easy to predict what a wall looks like, given that data," said Mark Schmidt, a computer science professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC). "But if you go into the real world, where every wall looks different, it might not work anymore." Schmidt works with machine learning, a technique that allows computers to "train" on a large set of labelled data -- photographs of streets, for example -- so that when let loose in the real world, they can recognize, or "predict," what they're looking at. Schmidt and Alireza Shafaei, a PhD student at UBC, recently studied Grand Theft Auto V and found that self-learning software trained on images from the game performed just as well, and in some cases even better, than software trained on real photos from publicly available datasets.
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As long as the world conforms to what artists think it should look like and the sun cooperates by lighting it correctly, I'll have no fear of driving into wall and other such mild nuisances.
I wonder what the AI would think of Doom as the monsters hide behind secret wall panels and jump out from behind to attack?
Says the guy who doesn't know the difference between quite and quiet. Not to mention that a winking emoji is not a proper way to close a sentence. Just to be clear: you're missing a period there, Mr. not-a-fucking-idiot.
Skynet will get such a huge kick out of ragdoll physics that it won't be able to try it out on real humans.
You can plug it into a video game and it gets better at predicting images?
There is a problem with our scientists today. The SR-71 is still the fastest plane ever built. Saturn V is our best rocket. Concorde is our best plane.
Feynman, Einstein and Newton would have intellectually destroyed the people we have today who are posing as scientists.
AI "researchers" have been trying to train computers to "recognize objects" for the last 50 years. They seriously need to just give it up. AI isn't happening. The horsepower isn't going to be there with digital computers. Digital computers are hitting a dead end with the end of Moores Law. We won't have enough power to do the computations required using the current "AI" methods. Time to try something new.
So, on one side, you have the game program converting conceptual objects from a database to 3D images, using a powerful GPU in the process.
And in the other side you have the AI program taking that 3D image and converting it to a conceptual object, and putting it in a database, using a powerful GPU in the process.
And then you wonder about global warming.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
Good. We need AI that can correctly identify a person as a prostitute and various fictional weaponry and automobiles.
It's bitztream, the autism-hating Slashdot troll!
How sad is your life that you feel better about pointing out a typo of two transposed letters and emoticon
If you think GTA is photorealistic, you are, quiet simply, a fucking idiot ;)
If you think that visual sensors used for AI training are photorealistic, so are you.
An interrogatory sentence should end with a question mark.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Now the fleets of self driving cars will be sipping "hot coffee" and beating the hookers to collect their money back for services rendered.
They will also know how to rack up a respectable 5 start wanted level and just hide under a bridge till it all goes away.
Oh, and my favorite new autonomous feature? Spawning attack choppers out of thin air to aid in robbing every convenience store in the city while performing the above two tasks.
You are being ripped off every second of every day, so that advertisers can help rip you off even more tomorrow.
Realistic enough to work as a proxy for reality, but not realistic enough to fool an alert observer. Apparently you don't know the difference between "works" and "perfect". There's usually quite a gap.
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it sure is fun listening to people who don't know how AI works projecting their human, real-world based interpretations onto them. Never do see that in the mainstream media.
... that white people have the right to have their own countries? And that you're all brainwashed idiots, who are actually incapable of the most BASIC thought processes?
Please explain why you think white people, and ONLY white people, should accept millions of non-whites into our countries every year, thus turning our countries into multi-racial hellholes for white people. (Apart from "The TV told me I'd be a 'bad person' if I spoke out against mass immigration"...)
Makes sense, the world is big, made to be explored, a dare I say, photorealistic?
The Talos Principle is coming to life!