Ars Technica point the way to a new age of car hacking.
SMART
Posts relating to my novel SMART.
Dial M for Moron
Facebook’s answer to Siri, Cortana . . . the list keeps getting longer. AI that knows you backed by real people who care. Wired has the details.
But, a further article explains that Facebook plans to use data generated by the service to feed much more complex AI systems that can reduce the burden on the trainers (in other words get rid of the humans).
Good. Nobody likes people.
Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway
I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.
Source: Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It | WIRED
Smartphone App Drives Land Rover
Prefer driving my Land Rover the traditional way, although the smartphone option is sadly not likely with the limited electronics in a 97 300TDi.
But Jaguar Land Rover engineers have developed the remote driving app for the specific use-case of control over rough terrain, not really for extracting your vehicle from awkward parking. I’d be surprised if more car makers didn’t have similar products in development.
Source: A Smartphone App Turns a Land Rover Into a Giant RC Car
The shoulders of giants?
Software development is less standing on the shoulders of giants, more like clambering up a pyramid of pygmies.
Many software developers are cribbing code, and its flaws, that someone else created. And the problem is only getting harder to keep up with.
Source: Programmers are copying security flaws into your software, researchers warn – CNET
AI experts building ‘world’s angriest robot’
Touchpoint Group is planning to develop “the world’s angriest artificial intelligence machine,” which is named Radiant after a sci-fi supercomputer that could predict future behavior. The point of the very angry AI research project is to learn what makes folks go nuclear during customer service calls and how to avoid those issues.
Source: AI experts building ‘world’s angriest robot’ to constantly run ‘what if’ scenarios
AI Safety is becoming a thing
Nick Bostrom, who keeps stirring the AI-will-kill-us-all pot, now says it might be OK because the big firms are becoming more mindful of AI Safety. So that’s alright then.