and I got to drive up to the Hunter Valley in a brand-new EV. Of course we had to test the driver assistance features - that's the topic of this week's episode of "The Next Billion Cars".
It went well enough... 😬
New ep on Thursday - all about EVs!
No apps anymore, but all the apps really did was discover the IP address and open a web page.
The hardware design has been very reliable with the few reported problems being with the USB WiFi dongle and 5V 3A power supply.
Some tech info on my website at https://kean.com.au/oshw/Holiday/
NEW EPISODE - @nextbillionsecs returns with "The Next Billion Cars - Autonomous Vehicles: Learning to Crawl". With co-hosts @SallydeMinx & @drewpasmith we wonder if we'll ever have anything beyond 'good enough' driver assistance. @Ken_Goldberg predicts! https://nextbillionseconds.com/2023/02/02/the-next-billion-cars-autonomous-vehicles-learning-to-crawl/…
As text-based web search becomes more and more polluted (hello dark forest AI) increasingly unreliable (hello google), how will we navigate the immense wealth of human knowledge?
I have a few suggestions.
"I recently interviewed someone who believed that the solution for autonomous vehicles – to get them to be something more than death robots on wheels – lay in millimeter-wave scans that record beneath the surface of every roadway."
Me in
The rise of large language models built on huge piles of data and driven by artificial intelligence may seem frightening
Paradoxically, it may be the best thing in decades for the progress of human intelligence
"Automated data collection amplifies the burden on the person filling out the form. What if a name can't be typed in Roman characters? Or a person doesn't identify with a gender? Forms force people into form, making us regular and computable."
As this place is falling apart at a rate of knots, if you hadn't worked it out by my handle -- if anyone wants to reach out to me, I'm at https://arvr.social/@mpesce
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As this place is falling apart at a rate of knots, if you hadn't worked it out by my handle -- if anyone wants to reach out to me, I'm at https://arvr.social/@mpesce
on the #Mastodon
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"...ran an analysis in a tool showing how information spreads on Twitter by looking at both keyword frequency & interactions between individual accounts. The results hint at Musk’s new role in this network: as effectively a hall monitor for the far right"
Voice assistants failed because they serve their makers more than they help users https://reg.cx/46M0?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article…
NEW!Hash Rate - Ep 023: @mpesce Coming International Crypto Regulation
Mark Pesce has attended (and chaired!) meetings with world regulatory bodies FATF, FSB and the V20 / G20 Summits.
He just returned from G20 in Bali: he has a lot to tell us https://youtube.com/watch?v=7IqxU1WXAQg…
in a freeform and interactive conversation with domain experts in art, intellectual property, economics and artificial intelligence, to learn from them how they see our generative future
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"I do marvel at Apple's cheek – selling effectively the same hardware at two price points, differentiated only by user interface hardware and a change of operating system." my latest in
If Apple's environmental rhetoric is meaningful, Macs and iPads should converge https://reg.cx/46xx?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article…
- much of which centrered around efforts to provide prudential oversight and regulation of cryptocurrency exchanges.
There is now no longer any need to provide a justification for this.
Did you feel that? The most recent Big Bang moment in #web history by @mpesce#AugmentedReality#GenerativeAI Content in Cosmos Weekly subscribers newsletter (but readers can get three reads a month free). https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/ai-generative-technology/…#science via @CosmosMagazine