it's essentially been an autonomous nation since 1912.
Wrong. Taiwan was occupied by Japan from 1895 until 1945.
The key point here though is that the ROC is an entirely separate entity to the PRC
Both the ROC and PRC accept that there is "one China" and that Taiwan is an integral part of China, and each officially claims to represent all of China. The main difference is that the PRC recognizes the independence of Mongolia, while the ROC does not.
What's your proposed model for testing an autonomous car driving amidst normal traffic conditions that does not include actually having it drive among normal road traffic?
Perhaps they should focus first on not killing pedestrians on an otherwise empty road, and worry about "normal traffic conditions" later.
Hmm, Germany is on 100% renewables now, so that argument kind of backfired on you.
1. Germany is no where close to 100% renewable energy. 2. East Germany switched to capitalism 30 years ago. 3. Even today the ex-communist east is is dirtier per euro of GDP than the west.
Apple phones are, unless jail-broken, completely locked down...
... unless you use Xcode, and then you can run anything you want.
Also, the Apple app store contains plenty of free open source apps. They are not "locked out". There is a walled garden, but they are inside the wall.
Apple is not part of any vast conspiracy to destroy Open Source. Microsoft may be, but they no longer have the market power to pull off something like that. This isn't the 1990s.
So? I have that at home, but without someone else's boogers.
I don't see the appeal of movie theaters. I would much rather wait until I can rent it for $3.99 for the whole family on Amazon Video.
My wife is less patient, and has TWO MoviePass cards. She goes to see at least one movie a week, and takes along one of the kids, or a friend, or sometimes me. So they are losing a lot of money on her. She is paying $20 for the two cards, and (according to TFA) MoviePass is paying the theaters $80 to $100 per month. Unless my wife is very atypical, I don't see how they can stay in business.
Also, people don't even agree on what "consciousness" is. Most people just "feel" like they have some sort of spirit or soul or free will or whatever, but there is little evidence for any of that.
NMI scans have shown that many decisions are made subconsciously, and then the "conscious mind" in the cerebral cortex just makes up an after-the-fact rationalization for what happened. This is especially evident in people that have had their corpus callosum severed, so the two hemispheres don't even communicate. They still "feel" like they have one "consciousness", when they clearly don't.
To put in simply, they're squeezing out the Open Source solutions.
I have a Macbook, and work with Windows as well. I have no problem whatsoever running Open Source apps on either.
Phones are more locked down, but that is nothing new. If you want to make an Open Source app and distribute it through the Apple or Google app stores, no one is stopping you, and there are plenty of them there.
These 3 agencies have a combined budget of over $60B. When expressing their opinion on a cellphone, they should be able to offer something more than just gut feelings.
The VCs already put in $200M, and they likely had a controlling stake, so they had to acquiesce to this sale. Most likely they faced a choice of either putting up more capital, or selling it at a loss for whatever they could recover.
Operator inattention did not cause this accident. Although he looked down several times, he was looking at the road when the woman appeared in the headlights. There was not enough time to react.
Where else do you expect the baristas, shop keeps, wait staff and other servants to live?
Gilroy.
At least the higher paid ones, every one else making minimum wage will have to commute.
Without the rent subsides, people will not be able to live in the area and accept the low pay. Employers will have to pay more so that workers can afford to either pay market rent or commute from someplace cheaper, such as Gilroy. What the workers get in rent subsidies, they lose on payday. The difference is that rent subsidies don't give them the freedom to spend on what they really want. Perhaps instead of cheaper (but still high) rent in Palo Alto, they would prefer to commute and spend their higher paycheck on groceries, or medicine for their sick kid.
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it's essentially been an autonomous nation since 1912.
Wrong. Taiwan was occupied by Japan from 1895 until 1945.
The key point here though is that the ROC is an entirely separate entity to the PRC
Both the ROC and PRC accept that there is "one China" and that Taiwan is an integral part of China, and each officially claims to represent all of China. The main difference is that the PRC recognizes the independence of Mongolia, while the ROC does not.
What's your proposed model for testing an autonomous car driving amidst normal traffic conditions that does not include actually having it drive among normal road traffic?
Perhaps they should focus first on not killing pedestrians on an otherwise empty road, and worry about "normal traffic conditions" later.
Plus, there is a reluctance among TV execs to have a Chinese lead with a cast of Chinese actors.
Well, there was Memoirs of a Geisha, a successful English language film with a Chinese lead and mostly Chinese cast ... in a movie about Japan.
I've never heard of this person, or series.
Liu Cixin writes in Chinese, so his works are available in English as translations.
Or even that Chinese sci-fi was a thing.
Umm ... China has roughly the population of North America and Europe combined, so Chinese anything is a thing.
Hmm, Germany is on 100% renewables now, so that argument kind of backfired on you.
1. Germany is no where close to 100% renewable energy.
2. East Germany switched to capitalism 30 years ago.
3. Even today the ex-communist east is is dirtier per euro of GDP than the west.
They write and talk about it.
So illiterate people are not conscious?
Stop using them. However your alternatives may in the long term become limited
How so? Lyft provides a near identical service, and tends to behave more ethically. So why use Uber?
but it's more than a gut feeling.
Citation needed. So far there has been no evidence presented.
Apple phones are, unless jail-broken, completely locked down ...
... unless you use Xcode, and then you can run anything you want.
Also, the Apple app store contains plenty of free open source apps. They are not "locked out". There is a walled garden, but they are inside the wall.
Apple is not part of any vast conspiracy to destroy Open Source. Microsoft may be, but they no longer have the market power to pull off something like that. This isn't the 1990s.
Said the guy who just consciously posted a comment.
Bots can post comments. That doesn't make them "conscious".
How does "consciousness" differ from mere intelligence?
It was a nice comfy lounge chair.
So? I have that at home, but without someone else's boogers.
I don't see the appeal of movie theaters. I would much rather wait until I can rent it for $3.99 for the whole family on Amazon Video.
My wife is less patient, and has TWO MoviePass cards. She goes to see at least one movie a week, and takes along one of the kids, or a friend, or sometimes me. So they are losing a lot of money on her. She is paying $20 for the two cards, and (according to TFA) MoviePass is paying the theaters $80 to $100 per month. Unless my wife is very atypical, I don't see how they can stay in business.
It's a high-level abstraction of everything necessary for a complex nervous system to be responsive.
Please describe an objective repeatable test that a "conscious" entity would pass, but an entity without "consciousness" would fail.
"I know it when I see it" is not an objective test.
The word loses all usefulness when it is polluted with superstitious tripe!
"Consciousness" is superstitious tripe.
Also, people don't even agree on what "consciousness" is. Most people just "feel" like they have some sort of spirit or soul or free will or whatever, but there is little evidence for any of that.
NMI scans have shown that many decisions are made subconsciously, and then the "conscious mind" in the cerebral cortex just makes up an after-the-fact rationalization for what happened. This is especially evident in people that have had their corpus callosum severed, so the two hemispheres don't even communicate. They still "feel" like they have one "consciousness", when they clearly don't.
Go visit a college campus. It is 90% Macbooks. The only people running Windows are the business majors.
To put in simply, they're squeezing out the Open Source solutions.
I have a Macbook, and work with Windows as well. I have no problem whatsoever running Open Source apps on either.
Phones are more locked down, but that is nothing new. If you want to make an Open Source app and distribute it through the Apple or Google app stores, no one is stopping you, and there are plenty of them there.
There's already allegations ...
Allegations are not evidence, and Russia is not China.
These 3 agencies have a combined budget of over $60B. When expressing their opinion on a cellphone, they should be able to offer something more than just gut feelings.
They should stop selling all phones because they all are made in China or have Chinese parts
Or perhaps instead of "expressing concerns" the FBI, CIA, and NSA should be asked to provide some actual evidence.
The VCs already put in $200M, and they likely had a controlling stake, so they had to acquiesce to this sale. Most likely they faced a choice of either putting up more capital, or selling it at a loss for whatever they could recover.
Tesla’s system has also murdered two people.
Both of those deaths should have been preventable with just cameras. They were basically software failures.
This Uber death doesn't look like it was preventable with cameras only.
Humans use visual sensors exclusively for driving
Worldwide, human drivers kill 3500 people per day.
Trying to say that autonomous cars cannot have any accidents is silly
Saying that SDCs should do no better than humans is silly too.
I'll be plenty happy if they are just 2 - 3x less likely to have an accident compared to human drivers.
We should be aiming higher than that. This accident should have been preventable by a properly implemented Radar or Lidar system.
Operator inattention did not cause this accident. Although he looked down several times, he was looking at the road when the woman appeared in the headlights. There was not enough time to react.
This is a good example of why visual sensors are insufficient for autonomous driving.
Uber uses LIDAR. Of the major SDC companies, only Tesla does not. Tesla is camera-only.
I have no idea why the LIDAR didn't work to detect this woman. From the video, it looks like the car didn't brake at all.
All they have is algorithms, data, and a glorified table lookup.
That also describes biological brains.
Where else do you expect the baristas, shop keeps, wait staff and other servants to live?
Gilroy.
At least the higher paid ones, every one else making minimum wage will have to commute.
Without the rent subsides, people will not be able to live in the area and accept the low pay. Employers will have to pay more so that workers can afford to either pay market rent or commute from someplace cheaper, such as Gilroy. What the workers get in rent subsidies, they lose on payday. The difference is that rent subsidies don't give them the freedom to spend on what they really want. Perhaps instead of cheaper (but still high) rent in Palo Alto, they would prefer to commute and spend their higher paycheck on groceries, or medicine for their sick kid.