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AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball

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Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball

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Post by inimino »

baobabKoodaa wrote: post #52
ed25519FUUU wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> To add a further strange twist to the death of Aeschylus, Roman author Pliny, suggested that Aeschylus had been spending a lot of time outdoors to avoid a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object.

I don't get it. If you're worried about being killed by a falling object, wouldn't you want to stay under the cover of a roof?

It really depends whether you live in an area where earthquakes, collapsing houses, things falling from high shelves, etc are more common ("indoor dangers") or one where durian fruits, falling tortoises, etc ("outdoor dangers") are more prevalent.

If the prophecy gets you either way, it's just a question of whether you'd rather meet your end indoors, perhaps while trying to reach something from a high shelf, with a deep sense of foreboding, or outdoors, probably in a completely unexpected fashion, or--shall we say?--completely out of the blue.

Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball

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Post by auraham »

rossdavidh wrote: post #47

So, if we assume that this game is important enough to somebody to televise, why would we not have volunteers to steer the camera? This does not look like a problem that needed AI applied to it, this has the look of somebody trying to apply AI to something that NI would have worked fine on. Your basic soccer fan would have a pretty good idea of what part of the field is most interesting to be looking at right now, an…

NI? what does it mean?

Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball

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Post by soneca »

auraham wrote: post #72
rossdavidh wrote: post #47

So, if we assume that this game is important enough to somebody to televise, why would we not have volunteers to steer the camera? This does not look like a problem that needed AI applied to it, this has the look of somebody trying to apply AI to something that NI would have worked fine on. Your basic soccer fan would have a pretty good idea of what part of the field is most interesting to be looking at right now, an…

NI? what does it mean?

I am guessing “Natural Intelligence”, i.e. a human.

Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball

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Post by aaron695 »

dthul wrote: post #37
aaron695 wrote: post #32

This tech is fucking amazing. Assuming their marketing is correct and it's actually AI they would be the only company actually using AI in production in the world AFAIK. They do Ads, Replays, Coaching, better than human ball tracking, they mention betting, not sure what. https://www.pixellot.tv/ You put up a camera that moves with a 5G card then it's just software eating the world. As a parent you NEVER have to go to…

Is that an auto-generated comment? I can't make sense of it at all.

Assume the marketing for the system is true (https://www.pixellot.tv/)

It's a modular technology. Just a camera and 4/5G card. It's all then just cloud software.

They already have 10,000 installations.

And I don't seem why any school would not have one.

Sport is worth billions. The money is there to keep this rolling. 90,000 current hours per month are produced. This is a TV station run by software.

Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball

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Post by hanoz »

bdowling wrote: post #9
ben_w wrote: post #4

The article’s title appears to be a reference to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife...

That is a pretty obtuse reference to use without explanation. It’s also an odd choice because it feels weird to call an AI a “who”. Despite AI replacing some human tasks, as with the camera operator here, the technology is not at all what we would consider a person.

> That is a pretty obtuse reference to use without explanation. It’s also an odd choice because it feels weird to call an AI a “who”.

The slight incongruity of the word "who" is the explanation, or at least hint, that there is an unspoken reference in play.

Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball

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Post by FridgeSeal »

olyjohn wrote: post #61
ballenf wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a hard task for young kids or anyone not used to watching sports. Ever watch a new sport with a child? They frequently lose sight/track of the ball/puck/etc.

It reminds me of when I try to play any of the Smash Bros games. I can't keep track of my character on the screen ever. I don't know how people do it.

Those games are seemingly "visual cacophony to the point of difficulty and frustration" and I don't get the appeal. Most of my friends who enjoy it also tend to enjoy other fast-twitch games, as do I, but that game is a bridge too far.

Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball

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Post by alliao »

macinjosh wrote: post #22
rileymat2 wrote: post #15

Today my iPhone suggested that I look at an automated album of home cooked food from my photos. It was working pretty well as I scrolled through and then it came up with some poop on the ground that for some reason I had taken a photo of. Kind of disconcerting.

I mean it _was_ food.

talk about up an ante on eating your own dog food.. BE THE DOG.

Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball

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Post by hnick »

StavrosK wrote: post #69
hnick wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does AI like this incorporate negative/positive punishment into learning as well as reinforcement? Is there an equivalent of slapping it and saying "No! Bad AI!" so it drops the association more quickly?

Yes but it should be avoided because the shock damages the hard disks' heads.

Everyone knows SSD is far superior :)

Re: AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball

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Post by asdff »

ponker wrote: post #53
baobabKoodaa wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get it. If you're worried about being killed by a falling object, wouldn't you want to stay under the cover of a roof?

Buildings back then probably collapsed much more frequently.

The entire hellenic world was pretty much an earthquake zone too
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