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Blaise Aguera y Arcas praised the revolutionary technique known as deep learning that has seen teams like his get phones to recognize faces and voices. He also lamented the limitations of that technology, which involves designing software called artificial neural networks that can get better at a specific task by experience or seeing labeled examples of correct answers.
"We're kind of like the dog who caught the car," Aguera y Arcas said. Deep learning has rapidly knocked down some longstanding challenges in AI—but doesn't immediately seem well suited to many that remain. Problems that involve reasoning or social intelligence, such as weighing up a potential hire in the way a human would, are still out of reach, he said. "All of the models that we have learned how to train are about passing a test or winning a game with a score [but] so many things that intelligences do aren't covered by that rubric at all," he said.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday December 15 2019, @05:04PM (2 children)
One time in the last 60 years that has happened, I'm guessing you've just seen the publicity for the recent movie, and that's being pushed as some "USA! USA!" chest-thumping exercise.
But those and other "Ford" things weren't even made by Ford at all. Most of them bought in UK tech such as Lola and Cosworth.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday December 16 2019, @01:59AM (1 child)
No, the real USA USA chest thumping exercise is Apollo, from the same era is Apollo - there again, cost no object, we outspent the Russians, came from behind and beat them to the prize: "We went in peace, for all mankind." Truer words were never spoken: we demonstrated conclusively that MAD truly assured mutual destruction, thereby averting WW-III which, undoubtedly could have been terrible for all mankind.
IMO, we (the USA) been on greased skids to the cesspit ever since.
No, actually, I've seen both the movie and the more informative documentary on Netflix, and yes, credit where credit is due: Everything America is, particularly the imperialistic native abusing expansionist parts, we owe to dear old mother England. A fun point that they made in the documentary much more clearly than the movie was that Ford had already destroyed Ferrari before, with the B29s they made in WW-II which were used to bomb Modena, including the Ferrari factories, into oblivion.
As for what made the GT-40s lethal at LeMans, the chassis and other know-how may have largely been sourced from England - all is fair in war and racing, but the real unbeatable ingredient were the god-awful over powered (too heavy for their own good) seven liter powerplants. England made some fine engines for aircraft in the war, but I don't think they had the balls to use such things for road racing, at least not in the 1960s.
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday December 16 2019, @02:57AM
Hell, I still cheer for a team with a New Zealander's name.
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