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The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage.
A few days before Thanksgiving, George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker, invites me to his house in San Francisco to check out a project he’s been working on. He says it’s a self-driving car that he had built in about a month. The claim seems absurd. But when I turn up that morning, in his garage there’s a white 2016 Acura ILX outfitted with a laser-based radar (lidar) system on the roof and a camera mounted near the rearview mirror. A tangle of electronics is attached to a wooden board where...
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That's a very interesting article! I've studied AI as an option in university and it's utterly fascinating. The way he programmed the software to learn by itself is very similar to the way a programmer made the first AI beat a human at checkers : by playing against itself over and over to learn the best strategy with empirical experimentation until it can beat anyone.
This is an impressive feat. But call me old-fashioned: I much prefer some actual code, which can be checked by humans and code analysis tools, to a neural net, which you can only "test" by using it (and then really hope it works correctly).