Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing
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Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing
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Re: Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing
#2Decent thought experiment but the whole "wolf in sheep's clothing" part is just link bait title or a really bad analogy. A more appropriate analogy would be "a head fake" as the late Randy Pausch so aptly put it.
Re: Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing
#3Decent thought experiment but the whole "wolf in sheep's clothing" part is just link bait title or a really bad analogy. A more appropriate analogy would be "a head fake" as the late Randy Pausch so aptly put it.
Probably just a really bad analogy. They also used "vicious cycle of driving and learning" where "virtuous circle" (which I take to mean a system with positive feedback) would be more appropriate.
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#4I thought Google's Street View cars couldn't drive very fast to be able to take those pictures. When not driving at full speed, it's not really a good learning set.
Also the link says they get to "know every road by definition", but you could read that almost entirely from TomTom's maps as well. Roads change, weather conditions change, etc. I'm not so sure Google really uses their Street View car data for their self-driving cars. Though it is almost certainly a part of it, I don't think this is the crux to solving the self-driving car problem.
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#5The author is going to be even more blown away when he finds out Google has been using recaptcha to train image recognition on street view data. Of course seeing street view as simply a long bet purely for self driving cars seems like a narrative fallacy.
Re: Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing
#6Decent thought experiment but the whole "wolf in sheep's clothing" part is just link bait title or a really bad analogy. A more appropriate analogy would be "a head fake" as the late Randy Pausch so aptly put it.
Probably just a really bad analogy. They also used "vicious cycle of driving and learning" where "virtuous circle" (which I take to mean a system with positive feedback) would be more appropriate.
He qualified it when he wrote the piece, calling it "sort of a 'wolf in sheep’s clothing'" in the actual article, then took off the "sort of" when he made the title. For that reason, I think it's probably sensationalist link bait.
That's not to suggest that it's a good analogy, because it's also a totally improper use of that idiom.
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#7So that cars can drive with the 80-90% success rate that voice recognition has achieved with similar methods? If you can model your entire surroundings several times a second to cm precision, you don't have to settle for machine learning and "just about perfect".
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#8This article is flat out wrong. Google's autonomous vehicles do the data collection for Google's autonomous vehicles.
They drive ahead of time around every environment in which they want to operate, with a bunch more sensors and more accurate localisation than the streetview vehicles. The lidar on the streetview vehicles is intended to provide a 3D surface model of the buildings lining each street. I find it very doubtful that they'd attempt to do supervised learning of human driving behaviour from the streetview vehicles, rather than the actual automated ones.
Re: Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing
#9Decent thought experiment but the whole "wolf in sheep's clothing" part is just link bait title or a really bad analogy. A more appropriate analogy would be "a head fake" as the late Randy Pausch so aptly put it.
It isn't really linkbait. I doubt adrian is worried about getting traffic to his blog.
A sheep follows the herd, but the wolf drives itself. Pretty good analogy if you ask me.
Re: Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing
#10linkbait in sheep's clothing.