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BMW shares AI tools used in production

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Re: BMW shares AI tools used in production

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Post by cryptocoder »

adrianmonk wrote: post #14
cryptocoder wrote: post #9

This is great. It would be good if all life-critical software was open-sourced like this. Maybe something that should in fact be required? But, ”in turn, we receive support in taking our AI software to the next level of development” I bet they are mainly looking for help. They are trying to figure out why their software is not capable to do what it is supposed to, and hoping someone can assist. I’m ready to consult t…

> life-critical software The article could be clearer on this, but when it refers to "production", I think it means factories and logistics. (At least that's how I put together "production" in the headline with "implementing next-level production processes throughout its plants" from the first sentence.) In other words, I think they use these algorithms in manufacturing systems, and they aren't putting this software…

Looks like you’re right on this. Probably wishful thinking on my part that at least one manufacturer would be doing the right thing wrt autonomous vehicles.

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Post by CrazyCatDog »

currymj wrote: post #8

the YoloV3 (the model that these tools are designed to work with) paper is extremely funny and worth reading for anyone who hasn't. https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf

Thank you—this is priceless. Caption to fig 4: “...and we can still screw with the variables to make ourselves look good!“

As an academic, I’ve now seen the light!

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Post by higginsc »

currymj wrote: post #8

the YoloV3 (the model that these tools are designed to work with) paper is extremely funny and worth reading for anyone who hasn't. https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf

Incredible. I wish people would take themselves less seriously like this. I would never have read that paper and learned a bit about that space if it hadn't been such an engaging read.

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Post by ianhowson »

samcodes wrote: post #5

This is impressive only because they are in automotive. I worked in that industry for years, they are generally at least a decade behind the rest of the software world

The tech in this blog post isn't at all representative of BMW at large.

There's a ton of 'decade behind' stuff that runs in VMs on Win10 machines.

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Post by kick »

iudqnolq wrote: post #19
currymj wrote: post #8

the YoloV3 (the model that these tools are designed to work with) paper is extremely funny and worth reading for anyone who hasn't. https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf

Thank you! My favorite passage: > YOLOv3 is a good detector. It’s fast, it’s accurate. It’s not as great on the COCO average AP between .5 and .95 IOU metric. But it’s very good on the old detection metric of .5 IOU. Why did we switch metrics anyway? The original COCO paper just has this cryptic sentence: “A full discussion of evaluation metrics will be added once the evaluation server is complete”. Russakovsky et al…

For people who don't get how the last statement ties in: on the actual paper, the third line 'iudqnolq quotes has a superset 1 on it. The PDF doesn't allow you to highlight the 1, so the punchline isn't as strong.
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