Google creates Skynet

allanb49

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1011/google.html

Short version, google creates a robot car that is self driving and has been tested driving over 1/4 million KM and can also be programmed to be cautious or aggressive. I'm pretty sure this is how skynet started.

Google reveals self-driving robot car
Monday, 11 October 2010 14:21

Google has revealed it is testing robot cars that drive completely on their own, having already cruised almost a quarter of a million kilometres around California.

News of the experiment emerged from Google at the weekend, revealing what has been described as an attempt to use artificial intelligence to revolutionise the automobile.

But the software, linked to GPS satellite navigation technology, was nearly fooled by a humble cyclist who jumped a red light.
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A Google engineer had to slam on the button to disconnect the system, and an accident was averted.

This was one of only two interventions by the human driver in 225,300km of tests.

'One of the big problems we're working on today is car safety and efficiency. Our goal is to help prevent traffic accidents, free up people's time and reduce carbon emissions by fundamentally changing car use,' Sebastian Thrun, a Google engineer said on a company blog posting.

'So we have developed technology for cars that can drive themselves. Our automated cars, manned by trained operators, just drove from our Mountain View campus to our Santa Monica office and on to Hollywood Boulevard. They've driven down Lombard Street, crossed the Golden Gate bridge, navigated the Pacific Coast Highway, and even made it all the way around Lake Tahoe,' he added.

'All in all, our self-driving cars have logged over 140,000 miles (225,302km). We think this is a first in robotics research.'

The engineer explained that in the experimental enterprise 'automated cars use video cameras, radar sensors and a laser range finder to 'see' other traffic, as well as detailed maps (which we collect using manually driven vehicles) to navigate the road ahead.'

But the vehicles are not unmanned for safety reasons; safety drivers are behind the wheel in case they are needed, Thrun's posting said.

According to The New York Times, the Google research programme is using artificial intelligence to revolutionise the automobile, making a step beyond its work on Internet search engines.

During a half-hour drive beginning on Google's campus south of San Francisco last week, a Toyota Prius equipped with a variety of sensors and following a route programmed into the GPS navigation system accelerated in the entrance lane and merged into fast-moving traffic on Highway 101, a freeway that goes through Silicon Valley, the report said.

It left the freeway several exits later.

The car drove at the speed limit, which it knew because the limit for every road is included in its database, the paper said.

The device on top of the car produced a detailed map of the environment.

The car then drove in city traffic, stopping for lights and stop signs, as well as making announcements like 'approaching a crosswalk' or 'turn ahead' in a pleasant female voice.

The car can be programmed for different driving personalities - from cautious mode, in which it is more likely to yield to another car, to aggressive, in which it is more likely to go first, according to the report.

Christopher Urmson, a Carnegie Mellon University robotics scientist, was behind the wheel but not using it.

To regain control of the car he has to do one of three things: hit a red button near his right hand, touch the brake or turn the steering wheel, the paper said. He did so twice - once when a cyclist ran a red light and again when a car in front stopped and began to back into a parking space.

The car was the brainchild of Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a Google engineer, who led a team in designing the Stanley robot car, winning a $2m Pentagon prize.

But autonomous vehicles poses thorny legal issues, The Times said. Under current law, a human must be in control of a car at all times.

'The technology is ahead of the law in many areas,' Bernard Lu, senior staff counsel for the California Department of Motor Vehicles, told the paper.

'If you look at the vehicle code, there are dozens of laws pertaining to the driver of a vehicle, and they all presume to have a human being operating the vehicle.'

But Thrun believes the automated car can save lives by reducing the number of accidents caused by human error.

'According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million lives are lost every year in road traffic accidents,' he wrote. 'We believe our technology has the potential to cut that number, perhaps by as much as half.'

Sanjuro

If you're reading this article, you are the resistance.

kippy

UL Compsoc created Skynet

cournioni

Fcuk... Arnie is getting on in age too...

allanb49

Sanjuro wrote: »

If you're reading this article, you are the resistance.

How do we know it hasn't gotten here and most boardsies are just highly sophisticated programmes.

But how would they subdue us... Making the robots flirty and giving them hefty chests to distract us. But no one would fall for that....

Surely...

Hmmm, Coincidence

fergalr

cournioni wrote: »

Fcuk... Arnie is getting on in age too...

Its ok, the time machine is nearly ready.
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/nif_10_08/n17_30637678.jpg

(from http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/10/the_national_ignition_facility.html)

Penrose

I heard its going to be installed in the Anglo Irish Bank Vault.

Dyr

f**king cyclists

PeterIanStaker

Could they make it useful and programme it to terminate all boy racers?

Morlar

Thread title of the day award goes to . ..

allanb49

Morlar wrote: »

Thread title of the day award goes to . ..

Always wanted that award, sniff

fergalr

allanb49 wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1011/google.html

The car can be programmed for different driving personalities - from cautious mode, in which it is more likely to yield to another car, to aggressive, in which it is more likely to go first, according to the report.

Short version, google creates a robot car that is self driving and has been tested driving over 1/4 million KM and can also be programmed to be cautious or aggressive. I'm pretty sure this is how skynet started.

Joking aside... ...when people talk about 'personalities' in that context they are really using a very loose metaphor. I'm sure they made use of machine learning systems, and maybe neural networks for control, but the 'personalities' will just be a few sets of parameters that get swaped in and out. While some AI stuff people do is pretty cool, most practical applications like this are very simple in what they do - you don't exactly need to worry about them becoming self aware.

bonerm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1bdqcj2zyy

MayoForSam

Will come in mighty handy getting home from the local on a Saturday night.

Brendog

If Google robots took over the world I wouldn't care.


At least the world would be a more colourful place.

L.Jenkins

allanb49 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure this is how skynet started.

I can see it now, aggressive mini coopers terrorising Irish roads and splashing people by driving through puddles on a wet day. It will be the down fall of man I tell ye!

The Highwayman

Come with me if you want to live......

KungPao

http://www.carlosdonze.com/blarg/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/miles_dyson.jpg

Timistry

Penrose wrote: »

I heard its going to be installed in the Anglo Irish Bank Vault.

Thats where fitzy has been spending the millions he robbed from his customers! Maybe he met Sarah Connor in the Mental Asylum:rolleyes:

BrokenArrows

even if they invented a perfect, safe automatic driving car i still think i would rather drive it myself.

newmug

cournioni wrote: »

Fcuk... Arnie is getting on in age too...

Dont worry, he comes back in time:cool:

Sarah Connor

This is not a joke!

What is wrong with you people?

Skynet tired to wipe out John's entire existence.

They sent Terminators back through time with their only mission: to destroy the leader of the human resistance, John Connor, my son.

The first Terminator was programmed to strike at me in the year 1984, before John was born.

It failed.

The second was set to strike at John himself when he was still a child.

Just as before, the resistance was able to send a lone warrior, a protector for John.

It was just a question of which one of them would reach him first.

Do you think this won't happen again???

It this a joke for you fucking people?

They will come back, this is not over!!

This will NEVER be over!

John is in danger!

He will always be in danger!!

Wake up, open your eyes before your life is gone!

Before ALL our lives are gone!!

CrazyRabbit

<---awaiting someone to create an account called 'Skynet' and make a reply to this thread reassuring everyone that Skynet is harmless.

Poor Uncle Tom

Waiting for a random post by some CrazyRabbit.........

OutlawPete

He'll be back.

L.Jenkins

OutlawPete wrote: »

He'll be back.

http://jamcity.free.fr/mc/nonsport/movies/t3_tx_photo_01_dp.jpg

But she won't be!

Jumpy

Penrose wrote: »

I heard its going to be installed in the Anglo Irish Bank Vault.

Plenty of free space at least.

Killer Pigeon

kippy wrote: »

UL Compsoc created Skynet

UCD netsoc shall defeat it.

Overheal

pfft, this isnt skynet.

Being programmed with a personality and developing a personality on its own are very different things.

Earthhorse

This is really cool.

I hope they release it soon and save me having to learn how to drive.

Mrmoe

Does this mean that there will be no more taxi drivers in the near future?

Earthhorse

Mrmoe wrote: »

Does this mean that there will be no more taxi drivers in the near future?

They said they programmed in an aggressive personality.

2 stroke

Mrmoe wrote: »

Does this mean that there will be no more taxi drivers in the near future?

Earthhorse wrote: »

They said they programmed in an aggressive personality.

Now all they have to do is remove the intelligence.

CrazyRabbit

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Waiting for a random post by some CrazyRabbit.........

I've always believed in random posting....and having cookies to dip in your tea.

allanb49

Wonder what happened to Sarah Connor?

Poor Uncle Tom

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

I've always believed in random posting....and having cookies to dip in your tea.

A cyborg can't tell the delights of a hobnob....

allanb49

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

A cyborg can't tell the delights of a hobnob....

John Connor: Can you learn stuff you haven't been programmed with so you could be... you know, more human? And not such a dork all the time?

The Terminator: My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer. But Skynet pre-sets the switch to read-only when we're sent out alone.

jimthemental

Hope I can get this set up in the tractor to spread slurry so I don't smell like sh1te on saturday nights

Taco Corp

Isn't there already a group of UK military satellites called Skynet?

geeky

allanb49 wrote: »

How do we know it hasn't gotten here and most boardsies are just highly sophisticated programmes.

But how would they subdue us... Making the robots flirty and giving them hefty chests to distract us. But no one would fall for that....

Surely...

Hmmm, Coincidence

Intriguing....

Tell me more...

Antomus Prime

fergalr wrote: »

Its ok, the time machine is nearly ready.
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/nif_10_08/n17_30637678.jpg

(from http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/10/the_national_ignition_facility.html)

Eh did the guys who are doing this not see spiderman 2???

GizAGoOfYerGee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5k--n7sFI

hal9000

GOOGLE CAR: Connection to main server lost, Resorting to backup program: CRUSH KILL DESTROY

Sticky_Fingers

How can Google have created Skynet, haven't you heard their motto:
Don't be Evel Knievel

Birneybau

More like Roadnet tbh...

Unless they develop the means to fly, well then we are fcuked.

"Astra La Vista Baby"

Cathaoirleach

Here's a recent video on how the Google Car builds a virtual world around itself. I love how it shoots out lasers at the other cars!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXylqtEQ0tk&feature=player_detailpage#t=658s

ejmaztec

Google has breached the Irish homing-donkey patent with this idea. I've heard of several cases from decades ago about pissed up and unsconscious farmers getting taken home on their donkey-drawn carts.