[ExI] waymo car achieves sentience

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
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<https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-drone-beats-human-champions-for-the-first-time-at-abu-dhabi-racing-event-new-deep-neural-network-sends-control-commands-directly-to-motors-in-significant-leap>

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>...AI drone beats human champions for the first time at Abu Dhabi racing event – new deep neural network sends control commands directly to motors in significant leap.
By Mark Tyson published 5 June 2025
Dutch team celebrates autonomous drone milestone.
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>...This little news item seems relevant.
Don't show it to your students, though.
It might depress them.  ;)
BillK



Depress them?  On the contrary BillK, these students are the guys writing the software that defeated the human champions.  This competition we did was for autonomous flying vehicles.  Human operators had to turn it loose to do tasked previously programmed, on its own.  Operators could not send it any signals.  Our students were cheering for team silicon.

spike