The South Korean go player Lee Sedol after a 2016 match against Google’s artificial-intelligence program AlphaGo. Sedol, ranked 9th in the world, lost 4-1.
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The history of human-machine collaboration suggests that AI will evolve into a “cognitive partner” to humankind rather than as all-powerful, all-knowing, labour replacing robots.
Australia could benefit from driverless car development and technology.
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Traditional car manufacturing may have gone from Australia with a loss of jobs, but one senior figure in the motor industry sees a potential for new jobs thanks to driverless cars.
A key factor is how well people and machines can avoid crashes.
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Comparing crash rates between humans and self-driving cars requires more data than anyone currently collects. And some of it will be quite hard to figure out.
There’s lots to do when a car is driving itself.
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Why do tech companies care so much about self-driving cars? If drivers no longer need to pay attention to the road, they can use their mobile devices even more.
When self-driving cars get in crashes, who’s to blame?
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If autonomous vehicles are going to be safer than human drivers, they’ll need to improve their ability to perceive and understand their surroundings – and become the ultimate defensive drivers.
Is chancellor of the exchequer, Philip Hammond, betting on tech utopia with plans to see autonomous vehicles on UK roads by 2021?
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It’s going to be difficult for UK government-backed autonomous vehicle projects to compete with Silicon Valley – unless they have something neat under the bonnet.
Truck platooning involves a lead truck with a driver guiding other trucks through vehicle to vehicle communication.
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Elon Musk’s new Semi has platooning capability - where multiple trucks commute in a line with a single driver in the lead vehicle. But could it work in Australia?
Existing cars can stop when they detect pedestrians.
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Driver aid systems and self-driving vehicle control systems could override a driver who is trying to attack people and prevent tragedy.
Lots of parking: the extraordinary amount of valuable land used to park cars in most cities could soon be freed up for other uses.
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Cities around the world are starting to rethink the vast areas of land set aside for parking. The convergence of several trends likely will mean this space becomes available for other uses.
Combining machine learning, artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles could revolutionize how people with disabilities get around their communities.
The first autonomous vehicles are already upon us, but once their use becomes widespread they will change cities as surely as the original cars did.
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It’s clear autonomous vehicles will disrupt our cities, their land use and planning. Whether they make urban life better or worse depends on how well we anticipate and adapt to their impacts.
When will cars be able to talk to their surroundings?
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If all the elements in the transportation system are going to talk to each other, the people at the companies and government agencies that make those items need to talk to each other too.
Don’t overlook immediate safety in a search for something better.
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Consumers with high hopes of driverless vehicles improving safety might be looking past the boring near-term advances that could make a real difference. It happened before – more than 60 years ago.
Ford and Dominos have teamed up to deliver pizza by driverless cars in a public test in Michigan.
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It’s not all plain sailing when it comes to autonomous ships – they could make accidents at sea more severe and even end up being more expensive to run.
There are times a driver should take control of any driverless car system.
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