At least one team (Stanford) is using learning algorithms. Most (all?) the vehicles sense the environment and build some sort of model of it - in other words they learn about the environment as they go, and they make decisions based on what they learn. Machine learning and other AI techniques can be used in the creation of the control software, even when machine learning is not being done during the race. In short, don't assume that understanding is not being advanced just because yours is not.
Unfortunately this is simply another tactic in a corporation's arsenal. Legislation is a very powerful weapon, and companies that get on the right side of decisions reap enormous benefits. Just look at farmers. You can't expect companies to not use such a huge, efficient tool, big companies like Microsoft really have to to survive. Microsoft is smart enough to see where the real power is, and they will keep attempting to influence government any way they can so long as government can change the rules of our so called "free market" at any time. With the right legeslation you can destroy a competitor.
There is no need to be good at the game when you can change the rules. As long as our government remains the way it is, this will never change.
You could also say the same thing about televison, or the mouth of Alan Greenspan. Personally I don't give a hoot about what machine my information cam out of, I try to evaluate it critically no matter what. My learning to think critically has nothing to do with how I was thought, but what. If you don't teach logic, you won't be able to distinguish tomfoolery from wisdom regardless of the source. If you don't critically evaluate what you input, you are screwed; the medium makes little difference.
What's wrong with deep movies?
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I think that children's stories have the potential to be the best of all worlds. "Adult" movies like to get bogged down by being deep and philisophical. Children's stories can get by with a thin plot, and happy gags.
Huh? What? Does anyone else think that "thin plot, and happy gags" is the best of both worlds, or has that potential? Thin plot and happy gags may be fun entertainment, but is it anything more? Not to me. What's wrong with deep movies? Do movies have some regulation governing them that say they must be shallow, and not attempt to provoke their audiences to think deeply? Movie making is a communications medium, and an art form, like writing, or painting, or sculpting. Books can have "deep" messages. Paintings can convey philosophical ideas. Why can't movies do the same thing and be applauded, instead of dismissing it as stuff that just "bogs it down." Come on folks, don't be afraid to think so much. Entertainment movies like Shrek are fun. Movies with "deep" or philisophical themes and messages may not be full of lighthearted (or stupid/sick/boring/dumb/sophisticated/good) humor, but that doesn't make them bad.
Of course there are plenty of movies that try to be philosophical, or deep, and fall on their face. But there are others that succeed, and those are the ones that I consider to be really good. When I look for the best in movies, I look for ones that challenge me, make me think and re-evaluate my paradigms, not ones that try to find some happy medium between humor and trite messages.
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At least one team (Stanford) is using learning algorithms. Most (all?) the vehicles sense the environment and build some sort of model of it - in other words they learn about the environment as they go, and they make decisions based on what they learn. Machine learning and other AI techniques can be used in the creation of the control software, even when machine learning is not being done during the race. In short, don't assume that understanding is not being advanced just because yours is not.
Unfortunately this is simply another tactic in a corporation's arsenal. Legislation is a very powerful weapon, and companies that get on the right side of decisions reap enormous benefits. Just look at farmers. You can't expect companies to not use such a huge, efficient tool, big companies like Microsoft really have to to survive. Microsoft is smart enough to see where the real power is, and they will keep attempting to influence government any way they can so long as government can change the rules of our so called "free market" at any time. With the right legeslation you can destroy a competitor.
There is no need to be good at the game when you can change the rules. As long as our government remains the way it is, this will never change.
You could also say the same thing about televison, or the mouth of Alan Greenspan. Personally I don't give a hoot about what machine my information cam out of, I try to evaluate it critically no matter what. My learning to think critically has nothing to do with how I was thought, but what. If you don't teach logic, you won't be able to distinguish tomfoolery from wisdom regardless of the source. If you don't critically evaluate what you input, you are screwed; the medium makes little difference.
Huh? What? Does anyone else think that "thin plot, and happy gags" is the best of both worlds, or has that potential? Thin plot and happy gags may be fun entertainment, but is it anything more? Not to me. What's wrong with deep movies? Do movies have some regulation governing them that say they must be shallow, and not attempt to provoke their audiences to think deeply? Movie making is a communications medium, and an art form, like writing, or painting, or sculpting. Books can have "deep" messages. Paintings can convey philosophical ideas. Why can't movies do the same thing and be applauded, instead of dismissing it as stuff that just "bogs it down." Come on folks, don't be afraid to think so much. Entertainment movies like Shrek are fun. Movies with "deep" or philisophical themes and messages may not be full of lighthearted (or stupid/sick/boring/dumb/sophisticated/good) humor, but that doesn't make them bad.
Of course there are plenty of movies that try to be philosophical, or deep, and fall on their face. But there are others that succeed, and those are the ones that I consider to be really good. When I look for the best in movies, I look for ones that challenge me, make me think and re-evaluate my paradigms, not ones that try to find some happy medium between humor and trite messages.