Posts by Somewhat Confused

Shock news: NASA lunar ambitions might be a bit too... ambitious

Study is still required...

I reckon they should have the gender / equity / diversity study finished by 2024.

Is today's AI yesterday's software routines with better PR? We argued over it, you voted on it. And the winner is...

It's bit patterns all the way down

'Artificial Intelligence' and 'Machine Learning' are simply marketing terms that appeal to the technically challenged. It is all pattern recognition directed by humans. You give a system an input of bit sequences and it gives you an output of bit sequences that can then be used to, for example, move a motor vehicle in a particular way. The systems onboard a car have no concept of a road, it simply generates a response to a sequence of bits from cameras and radars that cause it to turn the vehicle so that the next sequence of bits received is interpreted as the right response. Rinse repeat.

There is the example when researches 'trained' an image recognition system to respond to a stop sign with a stick-it note on it as a 55 mph sign. There is no intelligence, just stimulus-response. Put a Tesla on two wheel ruts on a farm and I doubt if it could do anything as it has no way of coming up with the correct response to a new bit sequence.