Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

2016-07-21 Thread Jim Birch
BRD wrote: And the idea that robots and/or autonomous vehicles can predict > consequences > Doesn't a robot - or a human driver - in effect make a prediction when they apply the brakes? I say "in effect" because the world does not actually run on "predictions". In Kahneman terms of slow and

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

2016-07-21 Thread David Lochrin
On 2016-07-22 10:34 Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > If you live on the Northern Beaches of Sydney (Tony Abbott's and Bronwyn > Bishop's (old) electorates) there are no trams, no trains and two bridges > (Spit and Roseville) into the city. > > They are building a big new hospital a few km's

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

2016-07-21 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 22/07/2016 10:16 AM, David Lochrin wrote: > On 2016-07-21 23:54 Stephen Loosley wrote: > >> Seems to me that future vehicle “black boxes” will be networked clouds. >> >> Properly done, each vehicle will have it’s own IP address, and be connected >> with and communicate with surrounding

Re: [LINK] AEC faces backlash over vote counting ???black box???

2016-07-21 Thread Chris Maltby
> At 10:27 PM 21/07/2016, Chris Maltby wrote: > >The other audit capability is the (incomplete) counts of senate > >first preferences by group that was conducted manually in polling > >booths on election night. This data is available for statistical > >comparison with the booth-by-booth final vote

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

2016-07-21 Thread Jim Birch
BRD wrote: > Do you suppose Tesla will be required to make their source code > available for scrutiny if things get to court? Do you suppose that anyone could understand it? A multilayer neural network is essentially a black box. Presumably Tesla's cars have a bunch of virtual neural

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

2016-07-21 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2016-07-21 16:59:02 UTC+1000, Jim Birch (planet...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Do you suppose Tesla will be required to make their source code > > available for scrutiny if things get to court? > > > Do you suppose that anyone could understand it? A multilayer neural > network is essentially

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

2016-07-21 Thread Brendan
On 07/21/2016 05:20 PM, andrew clarke wrote: On Thu 2016-07-21 16:59:02 UTC+1000, Jim Birch (planet...@gmail.com) wrote: Do you suppose Tesla will be required to make their source code available for scrutiny if things get to court? Do you suppose that anyone could understand it? A

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

2016-07-21 Thread Roger Clarke
At 17:13 +1000 21/7/16, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: >BTW, Asimov's laws of robotics have been well and truly debunked. ... I was kinder than to say 'debunked' (:-)} And Asimov's own fiction extended the set from the nominal 3 to 5+2: http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/Asimov.html#LawsExt >They

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

2016-07-21 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 21/07/2016 4:59 PM, Jim Birch wrote: > BRD wrote: > > >> Do you suppose Tesla will be required to make their source code >> available for scrutiny if things get to court? > > Do you suppose that anyone could understand it? So what will the court's reaction be if nobody can understand it? A

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

2016-07-21 Thread Roger Clarke
>BRD wrote: >> Do you suppose Tesla will be required to make their source code >> available for scrutiny if things get to court? At 16:59 +1000 21/7/16, Jim Birch wrote: >Do you suppose that anyone could understand it? A multilayer neural >network is essentially a black box. Presumably Tesla's

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

2016-07-21 Thread David Lochrin
On 2016-07-21 17:13 Bernard Robertson wrote: > BTW, Asimov's laws of robotics have been well and truly debunked. They fail > when you instruct several robots to perform certain actions which, to > individual robots, are innocuous, but when taken in combination, are lethal And Asimov's "laws of

Re: [LINK] AEC faces backlash over vote counting ???black box???

2016-07-21 Thread Chris Maltby
The key (as David says) is auditability of the process. The new system of counting is effectively fully electronic, but scrutineers can watch the data entry process of a clerk which will be compared with a successful OCR of the scan. The scrutineer can also request and be shown the physical paper

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

2016-07-21 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 21/07/2016 5:36 PM, David Lochrin wrote: > On 2016-07-21 17:13 Bernard Robertson wrote: > >> BTW, Asimov's laws of robotics have been well and truly debunked. They fail >> when you instruct several robots to perform certain actions which, to >> individual robots, are innocuous, but when taken

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

2016-07-21 Thread Andy Farkas
On 21/07/2016 16:59, Jim Birch wrote: BRD wrote: Do you suppose Tesla will be required to make their source code available for scrutiny if things get to court? Do you suppose that anyone could understand it? A multilayer neural network is essentially a black box. Tinker With a Neural