• NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Ever wonder why these captchas are always cars, bicycles, motorcycles, traffic lights and crosswalks? Because YOU are doing the work of teaching the next generation of AI for self-driving cars.

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      2 months ago

      Can’t wait until we get trolley problem CAPTCHAs and we have to choose the square with the most expendable human lives

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      2 months ago

      My favorite is when it asks me to identify stairs. I just imagine a self-driving car mistaking a set of stairs as more road and deciding to try and climb the steps.

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        2 months ago

        You and many other humans are doing verification work

        It’s pretty sure it’s already right, but if enough people get the same image and get it wrong the same way then something’s up, flag it

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            2 months ago

            I took some compsci classes years ago when this tech was new and that’s exactly how it was described as being handled

            Once image recognition software got good enough to be right most of the time they started this shit to help get it the rest of the way to all of the time

            Do it any other way and you have to pay those people

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        2 months ago

        Theres a CGPGrey video that describes old techniques. It’s not quite up to date on some of its predictions, but it is how some machine learning works. Of course, it doesn’t discuss current proprietary techniques, because those are company secrets. Still, it’s as good a guess we’ll likely get, unless something radically different has been invented:

        https://youtu.be/R9OHn5ZF4Uo

        There is also a second video about more modern stuff, but it’s more a footnote:
        https://youtu.be/wvWpdrfoEv0