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Apple Hires Nvidia AI Director With Experience in Self-Driving Car Systems
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I feel people live FOR the future, IN the present and REMEMBER the past (as best they can!)
That's not the goal.
You don't need to buy a self driving car that will sit parked 23 hours a day.
You hire one for an hour, it picks you up. It'll cost you a bit more overall than owning your own car but it'll be a nicer car and you'll have no need to worry about parking at home, work, the train station or the shops. No need to charge or fuel.
We have already destroyed and overpopulated this earth. More ways of Apple seeking profits won't fix anything. Soon the water levels are rising, and then the real hell breaks loose. Until then, let's continue to buy overpriced Apple products to make Apple stock holders richer, so they can have a chance to outlive the rest of us.
that actually isn't a fact. they say that's why, but plenty of others feel it's because they had no business model, no product, and no profit...in which case it makes sense their talent left.
I bet you're great fun at parties.
Apple are coming in at a time of great change in the car industry.
Car manufacturers are at a relatively early stage in software development. Apple have a potential advantage here.
Car manufacturers are at a relatively early stage in introducing battery powered cars. Apple have a potential advantage here.
Car manufacturers have a lot of experience building car, but are so invested in pressed steel manufacture of the chassis that it would be a lot of work to change to something else that might prove better for electric cars.
Gordon Murray (former Formula 1 designer, designer of the McLaren road car) has been proposing an iStream car manufacturing process that has a tubular steel chassis, reinforced with composite panels glued between tubes. Apparently the process requires up to 80% less investment than traditional plants. Yamaha have shown a concept car using this process, and note that they are not a car manufacturer.
Apple like to disrupt a market when they join, and there is potentially disruptive manufacturing available in a market that is already undergoing disruptive technology changes. I'm not surprised Apple are looking at it.
Realistically it can. Just like cruise control has a Human override and the self driving in the tesla requires you to touch the wheel at a set time. So yes realistically it's possible and there are hundreds of ways it can be implemented in a new vehicle.
One of the more foolish things I've read today.
Companies like Exxon dgaf and are on the same page as you.
Companies like Tesla & Apple are actually putting their money where their mouths are, and are putting the environment 1st. Tim answered a shareholder question of "Why are you spending so much money on green energy when there isn't a clear ROI?" by saying "I don't think you should be holding our stock, if that's a concern to you". It was the boldest thing I've ever heard a CEO say to a shareholder at one of those meetings.
Go soapbox proselytize somewhere where people are less informed... here you just sound loony.
Its not only about profits. Apple believes they can change the future and protect environment by pushing electric car mainstream. They were able to disrupt industries before so I am hoping they will pull it off again.
they can call it the coolest or most intelligent name ever, but apple maps still sucks till this very day...deep learning class what a joke
Great idea! More protein & nutrients and less waste product ~ Fast foods can definitely benefit with the help of Apple - but wait,, never mind.
I take your point. The differences you name are important. Still, a focus on differences often masks similarities.
I guess the point this guy is making is that, relative to other algorithms, neural network algorithms are most analogically close in operation to a biological brain.
