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Re:Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learn... by felippee on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @03:08PM (#13368458)
Not a single truck driver has yet lost his job to ML. Just a side note.
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Re:Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learn... by mastazi on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @06:36PM (#13370328)
Your statement is true with regards to long-haul trucks, but not in other cases e.g. the port of Rotterdam has had driverless container trucks for some years now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZBalESrXU

Also confirmed by this article https://www.naiop.org/en/Magazine/2015/Summer-2015/Business-...

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Re:Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learn... by renesd on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:45PM (#13369395)
Mining, shipping, and human transport driver jobs have all been lost to robots. There's giant trucks in WA Australia, the ports (again in Aus), and trains in airports. The big new train line in Sydney also has no drivers. (Not just these, and not just in Australia -- these are just used as examples you can look up).
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Re:Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learn... by digler999 on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @03:26PM (#13368639)
Driver jobs have been lost to autonomous container movers at shipping ports. Not expecting ML to have been integral to that, but driver jobs were indeed lost due to automation.
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Re:Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learn... by argonaut on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:26PM (#13369186)
You must be thinking of longshoremen, not drivers.
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Re:Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learn... by taneq on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @12:13AM (#13371929)
I don't know if it's "ML" but ore trucks at all the new Western Australian iron ore mines are autonomous. Instead of a driver per truck, you have a couple of operators in the control room giving orders to the fleet.
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