Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
When Nvidia popped the bonnet on its Co-Pilot "backseat driver" AI at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, most onlookers were struck by its ability to lip-read while tracking CES-going "motorists'" actions within the "car".
[...] An Nvidia spokesperson has since confirmed in an email to The Register that the lip-reading component was based on research paper [PDF] written by academics from the University of Oxford, Google DeepMind and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
"We are really happy to see LipNet in such an application and [it] is the proof that our novel architecture is scalable to real-world problems," the research team added in an email to El Reg.
[...] The paper was initially criticised. Although the neural network, LipNet, had an impressive accuracy rate of 93.4 per cent, it was only tested on a limited dataset of words and not coherent sentences.
A second paper, unofficially published on arXiv, showed LipNet's capabilities had improved. It could now decipher complete sentences after it had been trained to watch the speech movements of BBC News presenters for several hours.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday January 19 2017, @02:43PM
> after it had been trained to watch the speech movements of BBC News presenters for several hours
A clockwork orange, 2017 edition.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @02:47PM
No wonder HAL snapped.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Thursday January 19 2017, @08:37PM
The AI truly learned to hate humanity after watching old reruns of Crossfire and The McLaughlin Group.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 20 2017, @01:29AM
"backseat driver" already used by an early in-car nav system, thesis work was, iirc, before 1990.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Thexalon on Thursday January 19 2017, @02:49PM
"You're planning to park me next to that Yugo again, aren't you? I can't allow you to jeopardize our mission in this fashion."
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Weasley on Thursday January 19 2017, @08:46PM
Rotate the pod please, HAL.
I don't think he can hear us.