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Even self-driving leader Waymo is struggling to reach full autonomyAfter 48 hours we haven't seen any sign people are using Waymo's service.TIMOTHY B. LEE - DEC 7, 2018 4:55 PM UTC
We finally talked to an actual Waymo passenger—here’s what he told usEarly Waymo rider gives us new details about the self-driving service.TIMOTHY B. LEE - DEC 13, 2018 8:29 PM UTC
People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving VehiclesPosted by EditorDavid on Saturday December 15, 2018 @07:34PM from the not-sharing-the-road dept.Waymo's testing dozens of self-driving mini-vans near Phoenix. Now the Arizona Republic asks why the vehicles are getting so much hate, citing "a slashed tire, a pointed gun, bullies on the road..." "Police have responded to dozens of calls regarding people threatening and harassing Waymo vans."CitarThat was clear August 19, when police were called because a 37-year-old man who police described as "heavily intoxicated" was standing in front of a Waymo and not allowing the van to proceed. "He stated he was sick and tired of the Waymo vehicles driving in his neighborhood, and apparently thought the best idea to resolve this was to stand in front of one of these vehicles," Officer Richard Rimbach wrote in a report.Phil Simon, an information systems lecturer at Arizona State University and author of several books on technology, said angst from residents is probably less about how the Waymo vans drive and more about people frustrated with what Waymo represents. "This stuff is happening fast and a lot of people are concerned that technology is going to run them out of a job," Simon said. Simon said it is hard for middle-class people to celebrate technological breakthroughs like self-driving cars if they have seen their own wages stagnate or even decline in recent years. "There are always winners and losers, and these are probably people who are afraid and this is a way for them to fight back in some small, futile way," Simon said. "Something tells me these are not college professors or vice presidents who are doing well."Police used video footage from Waymo to identify the license plate of a Jeep that kept driving head-on toward Waymo's test car -- six different times, one in which the driver then slammed on the brakes, jumped out of their car, and demanded that Waymo get out of their neighborhood. Another local resident told the newspaper that "Everybody hates Waymo drivers. They are dangerous." On four separate occasions, people have thrown rocks.A 69-year-old man was even arrested for pointing a revolver at the test driver in a passing Waymo car. He later told police he was trying to scare Waymo's driver, and "stated that he despises and hates those cars." He was charged with aggravated assault and disorderly conduct. The man's wife told reporters he'd been diagnosed with dementia, but the Arizona Republic calls it "one of at least 21 interactions documented by local police during the past two years where people have harassed the autonomous vehicles and their human test drivers," adding "There may be many undocumented instances where people threatened Waymo drivers..." "The self-driving vans use radar, lidar and cameras to navigate, so they capture footage of all interactions that usually is clear enough to identify people and read license plates," the paper adds. (Waymo later cites its "ongoing work" with communities "including Arizona law enforcement and first responders.") When one local news crew followed Waymo vehicles for 170 miles to critique their driving, a Waymo driver eventually pulled into a police station "because the driver was concerned we might've been harassing them. After they learned we were with the media, they let us go on our way."
That was clear August 19, when police were called because a 37-year-old man who police described as "heavily intoxicated" was standing in front of a Waymo and not allowing the van to proceed. "He stated he was sick and tired of the Waymo vehicles driving in his neighborhood, and apparently thought the best idea to resolve this was to stand in front of one of these vehicles," Officer Richard Rimbach wrote in a report.Phil Simon, an information systems lecturer at Arizona State University and author of several books on technology, said angst from residents is probably less about how the Waymo vans drive and more about people frustrated with what Waymo represents. "This stuff is happening fast and a lot of people are concerned that technology is going to run them out of a job," Simon said. Simon said it is hard for middle-class people to celebrate technological breakthroughs like self-driving cars if they have seen their own wages stagnate or even decline in recent years. "There are always winners and losers, and these are probably people who are afraid and this is a way for them to fight back in some small, futile way," Simon said. "Something tells me these are not college professors or vice presidents who are doing well."
La carrera por poner en funcionamiento el coche autónomo está latente. Google, Tesla, Uber, Ford, o Apple son algunas de las compañías que están llevando a cabo importantes proyectos con el fin de comercializar el coche autónomo. Tras el revés de Apple la semana pasada, parece que es Waymo, la filial de Google, quien ha dado un paso al frente. La compañía ha anunciado que construirá la primera planta en el mundo dedicada 100% a la fabricación en cadena de coches autónomos. El ligar elegido ese encuentra en el estado de Michigan, en EEUU, e inicialmente supondrá la creación de 400 nuevos puestos de trabajo, informó la tecnológica.Según Alexis Georgeson, portavoz de Waymo, las 400 contrataciones incluirán trabajadores de planta, expertos de operaciones, ingenieros y coordinadores de flota. La autoridad para el desarrollo económico de Míchigan por su parte, anunció 100 nuevos puestos de trabajo, con el potencial de alcanzar los 400 anunciados por Google.Este proyecto de Google conllevará una inversión de 12 millones de euros para dar forma a la planta. Además las autoridades estatales han confirmado que concederán a la empresa una subvención de incentivo de 7 millones de euros a cambio de que cumpla con sus compromisos de contratación, según AP.Los modelos de coche que se llevarán a cabo serán el Jaguar I-Pace y del monovolumen Chrysler Pacifica. Fabricantes con quienes Waymo tiene un acuerdo para construir el software y el hardware de la autonomía e integrarlos a algunos modelos de sus coches. Esta planta construirá coches autónomos de nivel 4; aquellos que pueden conducirse totalmente por cuenta propia en áreas específicas "geocerradas" y bajo ciertas condiciones. El nivel 5, aquel en el que no es necesaria ninguna intervención humana, sin importar las condiciones, aún dista un poco más en el tiempo.
Let’s start with the question you definitely want to ask: When will self-driving cars take over? Answer: wrong question. The autonomous vehicle is not a single device that someday will be ready and start shipping. It’s a system, a collection of inventions applied in a novel way....Here’s the question everyone should really be asking: How will this technology change your life?
Coche autónomo = bases lunares
Confundes el objetivo de tu disparo.El trabajo (en sentido abstracto) existe en abundancia y tiene que hacerse.Lo que no es de recibo es que un trabajo de jornada completa como repartidor de cosas no sirva para subsistir. Fíjate que transportar personas (taxista) con unos gastos asociados infinitamente superiores sirve de sobra para mantener una familia.Es un absurdo.El problema no es que un repartidor trabajando gane 500 euros. El problema es que un techo se le lleve 600 lo cual eso le deja en situación de pobreza relativa contra otros que hacen prácticamente lo mismo, pero cuya vivienda les ha salido prácticamente regalada (generación triunfadora).
Waymo is turning to Detroit to build its first self-driving car factoryBy Mike Murphy · April 23, 2019It seems that Silicon Valley needs the Motor City.Alphabet subsidiary Waymo, not to be outdone by its sister company Wing, announced today (April 23) that it had selected a facility in Detroit, Michigan, to house the company’s first factory dedicated to building autonomous vehicles. The company first hinted at working in Detroit back in January.Waymo is working with the component company American Axle & Manufacturing to convert an existing factory in the traditional heart of the US’s car-making industry up and have it running before the end of 2019.Waymo has worked with established manufacturers like Fiat-Chrysler and Jaguar to add autonomous hardware on top of existing designs. Waymo will be leasing a building on American Axle’s campus and refitting it. The facility will primarily be used to install autonomous hardware and software in Chrysler Pacifica minivans and Jaguar I-Pace SUVs the company has purchased, Waymo told Quartz.The move comes as fewer Americans (paywall) are getting drivers’ licenses, more people are using ride-sharing services instead of owning cars, and startups are making cars that are beginning to drive themselves. Waymo’s choice suggests that even in a time of great upheaval in the US auto industry, tech companies interested in automotive technologies are still turning to those who historically have had the expertise.Waymo has been expanding its commercial autonomous ride-hailing test service in the Phoenix, Arizona area, ahead of a wider launch.
Springer Nature publishes its first machine-generated bookInnovative book prototype provides a compelling machine-generated overview about the latest research on lithium-ion batteries, automatically compiled by an algorithm developed in collaboration with the Applied Computational Linguistics lab of Goethe University Frankfurt/Main (Germany)London | Heidelberg, 02 April 2019Springer Nature published its first machine-generated book in chemistry. The book prototype provides an overview of the latest research in the rapidly growing field of lithium-ion batteries. The content is a cross-corpus auto-summarization of a large number of current research articles in this discipline. Serving as a structured excerpt from a huge set of papers, the innovative pipeline architecture aims at helping researchers to manage the information overload in this discipline efficiently.In close collaboration between Springer Nature and researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, a state-of-the-art algorithm, the so-called Beta Writer, was developed to select, consume and process relevant publications in this field from Springer Nature’s content platform SpringerLink. Based on this peer-reviewed and published content, the Beta Writer uses a similarity-based clustering routine to arrange the source documents into coherent chapters and sections. It then creates succinct summaries of the articles. The extracted quotes are referenced by hyperlinks which allow readers to further explore the original source documents. Automatically created introductions, table of contents and references facilitate the orientation within the book.Niels Peter Thomas, Managing Director Books at Springer Nature, said: “Looking back to a long tradition and expertise in academic book publishing, Springer Nature is aiming at shaping the future of book publishing and reading. New technologies around Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence offer promising opportunities for us to explore the generation of scientific content with the help of algorithms. As a global publisher, it is our responsibility to take potential implications and limitations of machine-generated content into consideration, and to provide a reasonable framework for this new type of content for the future.” Henning Schoenenberger, Director Product Data & Metadata Management at Springer Nature, added: “We are thrilled to finally publish this new type of research content and make it available for the global research community. While research articles and books written by researchers and authors will continue to play a crucial role in scientific publishing, we foresee many different content types in academic publishing in the future: from yet entirely human-created content creation to a variety of blended man-machine text generation to entirely machine-generated text. This prototype is a first important milestone we reached, and it will hopefully also initiate a public debate on the opportunities, implications, challenges and potential risks of machine-generated content in scholarly publishing.”In the future, Springer Nature plans to expand this pilot project by developing prototypes for content from other subject areas as well. The published prototype on research about lithium-ion batteries will serve as a solid basis to further refine and improve the underlying technology. Springer Nature’s first machine-generated book is designed for all interested audiences: researchers, master and PhD students, reviewers, academic writers, librarians and decision makers in science education. It is available as eBook and print book. The eBook is freely available for readers on SpringerLink.Image: Cover: Lithium-Ion Batteries | © Springer Nature
El editor de la revista científica Springer Nature lanzó hace un mes el primer libro de texto creado por una máquina, conviertiéndose así en pionera en lo que previsiblemente será algo habitual en el mundo de las publicaciónes científicas.Desarrollado por el laboratorio de Lingüística Computacional Aplicada (ACoLi, por sus siglas en inglés) en la Universidad Goethe en Frankfurt, el libro "Lithium-Ion Batteries: A Machine-Generated Summary of Current Research" es un intento de sintetizar los resultados de investigaciones que se están llevando a cabo en este área de la investigación.Según Springer, durante los últimos tres años han aparecido más de 53,000 documentos sobre baterías de iones de litio y, aunque es cierto que durante la fase de entrenamiento ha habido supervisión humana, el algoritmo utilizado permite condensar y organizar las publicaciones (aprobadas previamente por los editores) en capítulos y secciones coherentes lo que facilita la vida de forma tremenda a los investigadores el tener que lidiar con tan solo 180 páginas de información frente a las más de 100,000 que conforman los 53,000 artículos revisados.CitarSpringer Nature publishes its first machine-generated bookInnovative book prototype provides a compelling machine-generated overview about the latest research on lithium-ion batteries, automatically compiled by an algorithm developed in collaboration with the Applied Computational Linguistics lab of Goethe University Frankfurt/Main (Germany)London | Heidelberg, 02 April 2019Springer Nature published its first machine-generated book in chemistry. The book prototype provides an overview of the latest research in the rapidly growing field of lithium-ion batteries. The content is a cross-corpus auto-summarization of a large number of current research articles in this discipline. Serving as a structured excerpt from a huge set of papers, the innovative pipeline architecture aims at helping researchers to manage the information overload in this discipline efficiently.In close collaboration between Springer Nature and researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, a state-of-the-art algorithm, the so-called Beta Writer, was developed to select, consume and process relevant publications in this field from Springer Nature’s content platform SpringerLink. Based on this peer-reviewed and published content, the Beta Writer uses a similarity-based clustering routine to arrange the source documents into coherent chapters and sections. It then creates succinct summaries of the articles. The extracted quotes are referenced by hyperlinks which allow readers to further explore the original source documents. Automatically created introductions, table of contents and references facilitate the orientation within the book.Niels Peter Thomas, Managing Director Books at Springer Nature, said: “Looking back to a long tradition and expertise in academic book publishing, Springer Nature is aiming at shaping the future of book publishing and reading. New technologies around Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence offer promising opportunities for us to explore the generation of scientific content with the help of algorithms. As a global publisher, it is our responsibility to take potential implications and limitations of machine-generated content into consideration, and to provide a reasonable framework for this new type of content for the future.” Henning Schoenenberger, Director Product Data & Metadata Management at Springer Nature, added: “We are thrilled to finally publish this new type of research content and make it available for the global research community. While research articles and books written by researchers and authors will continue to play a crucial role in scientific publishing, we foresee many different content types in academic publishing in the future: from yet entirely human-created content creation to a variety of blended man-machine text generation to entirely machine-generated text. This prototype is a first important milestone we reached, and it will hopefully also initiate a public debate on the opportunities, implications, challenges and potential risks of machine-generated content in scholarly publishing.”In the future, Springer Nature plans to expand this pilot project by developing prototypes for content from other subject areas as well. The published prototype on research about lithium-ion batteries will serve as a solid basis to further refine and improve the underlying technology. Springer Nature’s first machine-generated book is designed for all interested audiences: researchers, master and PhD students, reviewers, academic writers, librarians and decision makers in science education. It is available as eBook and print book. The eBook is freely available for readers on SpringerLink.Image: Cover: Lithium-Ion Batteries | © Springer NatureEvidentemente no va a ser el próximo best seller ni va hacer sombra a Shakespeare, pero el beneficio que puede suponer una tecnología como esta de cara a acelerar el avance científico es tremendo. Entiendo que este ha sido el primero, pero después vendrán otros en otras areas de la investigación como la medicina, la neurociencia, la biología molecular...Si tienen curiosidad sobre el resultado final, pueden descargar el libro de forma gratuita tanto en PDF como en EPUB desde este enlace:Lithium-Ion Batteries: A Machine-Generated Summary of Current ResearchSaludos.
Cita de: CHOSEN en Febrero 02, 2019, 12:21:16 pmCoche autónomo = bases lunaresHace 35 años decían que para el 2005-2010 habría bases en la Luna, ya habría amartizado la primera persona y para el 2025-2030 habría bases en Marte.Pues lo mismo con los coches autónomos ahora.Ah, para el año 2000 los coches volarían por las ciudades como platillos volantes, sin hélices, sin turbulencias, sin ruido.
Para ver los efectos de vivir sin gravedad o con muy baja gravedad, ya está la Mir (que por cierto la retiran).
Cita de: muyuu en Mayo 12, 2019, 23:04:37 pmPara ver los efectos de vivir sin gravedad o con muy baja gravedad, ya está la Mir (que por cierto la retiran).Yo también soy nostálgico de la URSS y por eso te perdono.Lo que van a retirar es la ISS (bueno, ya veremos).La Mir fue retirada en 2001.