totaldick

3 karma · joined July 4, 2018

totaldick··on The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon millions

There's a few people like Will Roper (former MIT prof) and Raj Shah in the military that are introducing agile thinking into the military, which it desperately needs. Other countries are catching up and it's fast becoming the case that software is the only thing that really matters in warfare. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/06/07/f-35-to-2070-air-forc...

totaldick··on Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock

This is my only account, just signed up recently, and the name was just spur of the moment. Sorry if it comes across as trolling, that wasn't my intention. I just know a bit about Rodney Brooks, am a fan of his work, so I gave my 2 cents.

totaldick··on Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock

not trolling. I don't think you know Brooks well enough, i've been following him since the 90s. Rodney Brooks is famous for his subsumption architecture and disregard of statistical methods. Because of the failures of Marvin Minsky GOFAI, the previous director of MIT AI, he went in the opposite direction completely and became highly skeptical of AI while serving as MIT AI head. This was the AI winter days of the 90s.

totaldick··on Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock

Rodney Brooks has a history of skepticism about AI (said in 2009 that he doesn't think AI is even possible), as does Gary Marcus (who's been anti-deep learning since 2011). "AI is hype" hit pieces always quote them.