Its never been confirmed by Google, so I may be wrong. It still tracks that the data harvesting company with a self driving car project that uses human labor to identify road hazards would integrate the two projects.
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cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 20 hours agoi hope you’re joking. please, tell me you’re joking?
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
I was referring to the “This is actually a good sign for self driving” part of their comment.
The captcha circumvention arms race has been going on for over two decades, and every new type of captcha has and will continue to be broken as soon as it’s widely deployed enough that someone is motivated to spend the time to.
So, the notion that an academic paper about breaking the current generation of traffic sign captchas (something which the solving industry has been doing for years with a pretty high success rate already) is “good news” for autonomous vehicles is… well, hopefully a joke.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
Not really. I’m not even sure what you’re disagreeing with based on the above comment.
My point is that if bog standard AI can accurately identify all of the road information from pictures, that is good news for self driving.
What was once a nearly impossible task for computers is now mundane, and can be used to improve safety/utility for self driving, especially for FOSS projects like comma.ai
x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Well reCaptcha v1 was used for the digitization of books. And that they proudly talked about.
But to be honest, the pictures were in fact used to dether bots. But also to teach selfdriving cars. I think I also remember a time they used to ask to fill in house numbers probably for their Maps accuracy.