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Steve Wozniak says he does not expect fully autonomous cars 'in my lifetime'

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Re: Steve Wozniak says he does not expect fully autonomous cars 'in my lifetime'

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Post by officeplant »

shsjxjbsbs wrote: post #14
ozten wrote: post #12

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> ML made it actually as good as a human being How ML made it usable in some cases, would be more accurate. I still can't ask Alexa to play specific albums or tracks most of the time. I don't want that level of accuracy driving cars on the road.

Google seems to have no trouble playing music from Spotify for me. It can even manage it while I yell my song requests from the shower.

The weird names and track titles that dominate electronic music has made this quite difficult for me.

Re: Steve Wozniak says he does not expect fully autonomous cars 'in my lifetime'

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Post by officeplant »

rwmurrayVT wrote: post #39
kwhitefoot wrote: post #36

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For my height 1.7 m I would have 10 weigh 115 kg to have a BMI of 40. Bloody hell, I count myself as overweight at the 74 kg I weigh now, BMI 26. Just can't imagine carrying an extra 41 kg! Doesn't surprise me at all that it would shorten my life. Never mind that but the life one has must be worse as well.

I just did that same calculation. My god. Would I even want to go 10 more years weighing 300 lbs? I know BMI isn't 'perfect'. I think once you reach a certain weight class it becomes more and more relevant. There's no way more than a few fringe cases of people are 6'+ and 350+lbs of primarily muscle. Even NFL linemen are on average 6'4" and around 300lbs. Edit: That linked article is incredible. It shows the primary…

>My god. Would I even want to go 10 more years weighing 300 lbs?

As someone who's dropped from 430 to 330 (6'3" 31). This is always a difficult question. The struggle is real, but even trying to hit the "healthy" weight for my height according to BMI is another 140lb away.

Re: Steve Wozniak says he does not expect fully autonomous cars 'in my lifetime'

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Post by adriftincode »

rsj_hn wrote: post #33
adriftincode wrote: post #24

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What phone assistants are you using? I’ve never had this problem.

Siri

Same here, Siri solves this problem.

Me: “Hey Siri, how late is x open?”

Siri: One possibility is on x street, does that sound good?

Me: Yes

Siri:

“X is open from y-z.”

Re: Steve Wozniak says he does not expect fully autonomous cars 'in my lifetime'

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Post by rwmurrayVT »

officeplant wrote: post #42
rwmurrayVT wrote: post #39

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I just did that same calculation. My god. Would I even want to go 10 more years weighing 300 lbs? I know BMI isn't 'perfect'. I think once you reach a certain weight class it becomes more and more relevant. There's no way more than a few fringe cases of people are 6'+ and 350+lbs of primarily muscle. Even NFL linemen are on average 6'4" and around 300lbs. Edit: That linked article is incredible. It shows the primary…

>My god. Would I even want to go 10 more years weighing 300 lbs? As someone who's dropped from 430 to 330 (6'3" 31). This is always a difficult question. The struggle is real, but even trying to hit the "healthy" weight for my height according to BMI is another 140lb away.

You're going the right way and that is something to be very proud of for yourself. It didn't happen overnight so it won't go away overnight.

Seriously, you should be very proud and I truly commend you. I was 133 pounds when I stopped running track and field. I went up to 200 pounds with some ease. It's been a struggle to return to 150 pounds.

Re: Steve Wozniak says he does not expect fully autonomous cars 'in my lifetime'

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Post by pkulak »

663e1b wrote: post #13
pkulak wrote: post #5

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I think we're at least one CS breakthrough away, and how do you put a timeline on that? Kinda like how speech recognition was just almost there for decades until modern ML made it actually as good as a human being.

Better GPUs is what enabled modern ML, it wasn't a CS breakthrough.

I dunno. I'd say new classification strategies like K-Means* really did it. Without that, all the power in the world doesn't get you anywhere.

* https://www-cs.stanford.edu/~acoates/papers/coatesng_nntot20...

Re: Steve Wozniak says he does not expect fully autonomous cars 'in my lifetime'

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Post by rsj_hn »

adriftincode wrote: post #43
rsj_hn wrote: post #33

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Siri

Same here, Siri solves this problem. Me: “Hey Siri, how late is x open?” Siri: One possibility is on x street, does that sound good? Me: Yes Siri: “X is open from y-z.”

I just tried it and you're right, it works. Well, it didn't used to work so I stopped using Siri. I regret the error.

Re: Steve Wozniak says he does not expect fully autonomous cars 'in my lifetime'

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Post by shsjxjbsbs »

rsj_hn wrote: post #46
adriftincode wrote: post #43

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Same here, Siri solves this problem. Me: “Hey Siri, how late is x open?” Siri: One possibility is on x street, does that sound good? Me: Yes Siri: “X is open from y-z.”

I just tried it and you're right, it works. Well, it didn't used to work so I stopped using Siri. I regret the error.

I wonder if people assume Siri failed to understand the query when they hear its request for clarification. I think it should include some context, eg: “Which x do you want opening hours for?”
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