On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:19:44AM -0800, Jef Allbright wrote: > as I was driving home I approached a > truck off the side of the road, its driver pulling hard on a bar, > tightening the straps securing the load. Without conscious thought I > moved over in my lane to allow for the possibility that he might slip. > That chain of inference, and its requisite knowledge base, leading to > a "simple" human behavior, are not even on the radar horizon of > current AI technology.
? "I see a human, better give him wide berth". Certainly, the ability to detect and deal with pedestrians will be required before these things become street-legal. I can easily imagine that next-years grand challenge, or the one thereafter, will explicitly require ability to deal with cyclists, motorcyclists, pedestrians, children and dogs. Exactly how they'd test this, however, I don't know ... --linas ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=64316665-a9fb25
