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Re: How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 4:02 PM UTC

MrQuincle wrote: post #59

argonaut wrote: post #8

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Is there a story somewhere of AI researchers concluding general object recognition was the holy grail of AI? I get that a lot of people downplay achievements in machine learning by saying it's nothing like AGI, but it's almost a meme now that "once upon a time everyone thought that was the holy grail and they're moving the signposts" even when 1) nobody thought that, or 2) some people thought that and some people did…

I - for what it is worth - would still say general object recognition, with the emphasis on general, is indeed the holy grail. The ability to recognize objects like people do is not properly represented by current benchmarks. I can imagine that you can built a perfect robotic "bird spotter" but if you put that in a self-driving car I would not be surprised if it stops for something that's just a shadow, or if you put…

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Re: How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow

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Post by MrQuincle » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 4:02 PM UTC

MrQuincle wrote: post #59

argonaut wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a story somewhere of AI researchers concluding general object recognition was the holy grail of AI? I get that a lot of people downplay achievements in machine learning by saying it's nothing like AGI, but it's almost a meme now that "once upon a time everyone thought that was the holy grail and they're moving the signposts" even when 1) nobody thought that, or 2) some people thought that and some people did…

I - for what it is worth - would still say general object recognition, with the emphasis on general, is indeed the holy grail. The ability to recognize objects like people do is not properly represented by current benchmarks. I can imagine that you can built a perfect robotic "bird spotter" but if you put that in a self-driving car I would not be surprised if it stops for something that's just a shadow, or if you put…

Now a nice article that addresses some limitations of vision: https://medium.com/@andrewt3000/tesla-mobileeye-and-deep-lea...

Re: How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow

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Post by nojvek » Fri, Sep 23, 2016, 5:13 PM UTC

Oh my god. You are trying to build the exact thing I am trying to build. Albeit you've made much more progress.

I'm still soldering wires into the motors. You should take off the paper from acrylic. The transparent effect makes it look awesome.

My goal is to make a raspberry pi bot that plays indoor fetch. I would love to have a chat with you.