Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow • Hacker News Board

Re: Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow

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Post by littlemtman » Wed, May 13, 2020, 5:37 AM UTC

serf wrote: post #91

this is pretty cool. I used a similar scheme (two computers, one with HID control over the other, and a webcam to observe) as a way to hide a simple aimbot as a proof-of-concept for getting around on-computer anti-cheats that would search through memory on popular FPSs. This was years ago on games with weak anti-cheats, anyway. It worked OKish. It had to rely on computer vision to do the aiming, so it was significant…

Thanks, yes maybe I will add proper sensoring to the project with emulating a can bus.

Re: Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow

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Post by littlemtman » Wed, May 13, 2020, 5:40 AM UTC

z3t4 wrote: post #26

Since this is GTA, it would be cool to add pedestrians to the mix...

I tried it in the city center it was going nowhere, the bigger and complex the models get the more they learn "intuitively" i.e. avoiding pedestrians, avoiding crashes etc. Like the video where Autopilot predicted a crash 3 seconds before it actually occured.

Re: Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife » Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:14 AM UTC

squnch wrote: post #107

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #95

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I’d love to spend some time living in a serviced apartment with meals included. Or something similar to a retirement village or university student accommodation, or be able to afford a staff of servants. You get the idea anyway.

You can do this quite affordably in huge numbers of countries if you can earn your income with a decent remote job in the US. The things to think about are time zone, tropical disease, quality of food, and safety. There are a whole range of places from Arkansas, to Costa Rica, to Panama, to Nicaragua. The thing you'll lose out on is anyone you know, unless you can get them to go with you, or can make new friends in y…

I’m in Australia so I often half-joke: let’s sell everything we own and go live like kings on a remote Indonesian island.

Re: Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow

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Post by holografix » Wed, May 13, 2020, 1:07 PM UTC

umeshunni wrote: post #90

tikej wrote: post #3

And to me this is the essence of hacking and hacker culture, not “how do I create MVP from my idea and become an entrepreneur” or “this and that in company XYZ” mindset. So glad to see people doing silly things that in fact require skill. This is why I come to hackernews. Keep up great work with this wonderful attitude!

WSJ had an interesting article the other day about why there are fewer startups now - https://www.wsj.com/articles/six-theories-on-why-fast-growin... tl;dr is that people are now more motivated by the idea of being an entrepreneur than by having a great business concept.

I think Scott Galloway has some very valuable input on this topic. I might do it a disservice by trying to to;dr it here but basically there is very little if any room for innovation left when the big monopolies are currently very efficient in “featuring” your whole startup and through economies of scale (not having to turn a profit) they’ll eliminate you from the market it acquire you if they like the talent.

Re: Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow

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Post by Miraste » Wed, May 13, 2020, 7:00 PM UTC

commaai wrote: post #87

dicknuckle wrote: post #72

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There's hundreds of people using these on public roadways. Check out the official Discord and the various Community Discords centered around it.

Over 1,000 people just today. A couple thousand every week. In addition to running on a laptop, openpilot also runs on a phone for easy mounting in your car. https://github.com/commaai/openpilot

Your FAQ says Comma "openpilot performs the functions of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Automated Lane Centering (ALC)" and my 2020 Corolla is supported-but it already has those features. I read through the site and I don't see the value proposition. Is it that Comma does a better job of it?

Re: Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow

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Post by Erlich_Bachman » Thu, May 14, 2020, 1:17 PM UTC

dddbbb wrote: post #46

Erlich_Bachman wrote: post #33

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Comma.ai which is used in the demo is a for-profit company that makes a sellable product.

Yes, but the author is a student making use of their open source software. I think that's in the spirit of hacking.

The point is that the original topic is against "startups" where in this example, 99% of work was done inside precisely an organization like a startup, and only the resting 1% being work of a student who simply applied a ready-made solution to his situation. The point is, regardless of hacker culture, there is nothing wrong with startup culture, it often produces great products and technology.

Re: Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow

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Post by wwright » Thu, May 14, 2020, 3:01 PM UTC

gitgud wrote: post #93

wwright wrote: post #85

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What makes you think that business inherently relies on secrecy?

All business is based on some kind of upper hand right? Secrecy is usually the root of that upper hand. Sometimes you can reveal your "secret sauce" but patents/copyright/regulation will protect it from being stolen. So the "secret sauce" is still what separates you from the other businesses... It makes sense in my head, but maybe I'm rambling... I'll try and write a blog post to explain my thoughts a bit better. Can…

I think the framing is kind of off.

Being a successful business doesn’t mean that you must be secretive about your business operations. I don’t think it requires an “upper hand” either. Those may be key to out-competing other businesses in some way, but that is different than being successful. (Capital culture makes us think of a “successful business” as one that makes insane amounts of money, rather than one that achieves a goal.)

Of course, all businesses realistically will have some secrets, but those may often be separate from the business operations. For example, it would probably be very difficult to be public about all of your HR details, or expose all of your internal phone numbers/emails/physical addresses (humans just like basic privacy).

But many local businesses can probably operate just fine without being very secretive. There was a place in my hometown I loved that served shakes, cheese sticks, and cheeseburgers. I don’t think he did anything special that needed to be kept secret. People just like a nice diner with a decent burger.