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Re:Lidar Is a Crutch by ec109685 on Thursday January 31, 2019 @04:07AM (#19043491)
Human experience dies with the person who acquired it, whereas machines can continue to learn indefinitely from a larger and larger pool of labeled data. Think about all the "take overs" when AI fails that Tesla sees each day that are made available to their training set.

As for the point about the training environment, a lot of what AI cars do is learn from simulations.

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Re:Lidar Is a Crutch by hprotagonist on Thursday January 31, 2019 @08:28AM (#19044525)
>Human experience dies with the person who acquired it...

unless they wrote it down.

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Re:Lidar Is a Crutch by lm28469 on Thursday January 31, 2019 @08:50AM (#19044652)
Books are one of the best thing we have to transmit experiences but it's far from a 1:1 process. Two people can read the same book but take away diametrically opposed things due to their own experiences / expectations.

You can read all the books and notes about WW1 battles, you'll never come close to feel what they felt in the trenches.

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Re:Lidar Is a Crutch by hprotagonist on Thursday January 31, 2019 @10:29AM (#19045402)
Sure. Those objections are just as valid for "how i felt last week", though. The past is a foreign country, even to those of us who were around for it.
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Re:Lidar Is a Crutch by PhasmaFelis on Thursday January 31, 2019 @10:56AM (#19045628)
Human knowledge can be written down, but knowledge is a poor shadow of first-hand experience.
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