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recent bookmarks from jmShitty behaviour around the img2dataset AI scraper2023-04-24T16:47:01+00:00
https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset/issues/293
jmLetting a small minority [ie web publishers] prevent the large majority [AI users] from sharing their images and from having the benefit of last gen AI tool would definitely be unethical yes. Consent is obviously not unethical. You can give your consent for anything if you wish. It seems you're trying to decide for million of other people without asking them for their consent.
In other words, "scraping your content without opt-in is better than denying access to your content for millions of potential future AI users". An issue to implement robots.txt support has been languishing since 2021. Good arguments for blocking the img2dataset user agent in general...]]>opt-in consent ai ml bad-behaviour scraping robotshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f70437fd7139/How googly eyes solved one of today’s trickiest UX problems2019-08-29T13:11:36+00:00
https://www.fastcompany.com/90395110/how-googly-eyes-solved-one-of-todays-trickiest-ux-problems
jmgoogly-eyes robots ux design cute funnyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0cb2c1bb6cf1/nearly every site running ads has an /ads.txt2019-05-14T10:01:12+00:00
https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1128168089332408321
jm'I just learned that nearly every site running ads has a standardized ads.txt file that helpfully shows you how badly it murders your privacy. The file is a whitelist of all authorized resellers for programmatic advertising. For example, https://www.bostonglobe.com/ads.txt '
]]>ads.txt advertising pinboard privacy data-privacy adtech robotshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8a9f3a07654e/Xiaomi Mi robot vacuum cleaner2017-07-19T09:15:57+00:00
http://www.vacuumsguide.com/xiaomi-mi-robot-vacuum-cleaner/
jmrobots cleaning vacuum-cleaners xiaomi gadgets homehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b52a577ef1f3/Toyota's Gill Pratt: "No one is close to achieving true level 5 [self-driving cars]"2017-01-24T12:18:49+00:00
http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/toyota-gill-pratt-on-the-reality-of-full-autonomy
jmThe most important thing to understand is that not all miles are the same. Most miles that we drive are very easy, and we can drive them while daydreaming or thinking about something else or having a conversation. But some miles are really, really hard, and so it’s those difficult miles that we should be looking at: How often do those show up, and can you ensure on a given route that the car will actually be able to handle the whole route without any problem at all? Level 5 autonomy says all miles will be handled by the car in an autonomous mode without any need for human intervention at all, ever.
So if we’re talking to a company that says, “We can do full autonomy in this pre-mapped area and we’ve mapped almost every area,” that’s not Level 5. That’s Level 4. And I wouldn’t even stop there: I would ask, “Is that at all times of the day, is it in all weather, is it in all traffic?” And then what you’ll usually find is a little bit of hedging on that too. The trouble with this Level 4 thing, or the “full autonomy” phrase, is that it covers a very wide spectrum of possible competencies. It covers “my car can run fully autonomously in a dedicated lane that has no other traffic,” which isn’t very different from a train on a set of rails, to “I can drive in Rome in the middle of the worst traffic they ever have there, while it’s raining," which is quite hard.
Because the “full autonomy” phrase can mean such a wide range of things, you really have to ask the question, “What do you really mean, what are the actual circumstances?” And usually you’ll find that it’s geofenced for area, it may be restricted by how much traffic it can handle, for the weather, the time of day, things like that. So that’s the elaboration of why we’re not even close.
]]>autonomy driving self-driving cars ai robots toyota weatherhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:dc4fa5009a0e/Japan's Robot Dogs Get Funerals as Sony Looks Away2015-03-09T14:09:58+00:00
http://www.newsweek.com/japans-robot-dogs-get-funerals-sony-looks-away-312192
jmin July 2014, [Sony's] repairs [of Aibo robot dogs] stopped and owners were left to look elsewhere for help. The Sony stiff has led not only to the formation of support groups--where Aibo enthusiasts can share tips and help each other with repairs--but has fed the bionic pet vet industry.
“The people who have them feel their presence and personality,” Nobuyuki Narimatsu, director of A-Fun, a repair company for robot dogs, told AFP. “So we think that somehow, they really have souls.” While concerted repair efforts have kept many an Aibo alive, a shortage of spare parts means that some of their lives have come to an end.
]]>sony aibo robots japan dogs pets weird future badiotday iot gadgetshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fff90ccd136f/Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than Puny Humans | MIT Technology Review2013-10-26T22:27:23+00:00
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520746/data-shows-googles-robot-cars-are-smoother-safer-drivers-than-you-or-i/
jmOne of those analyses showed that when a human was behind the wheel, Google’s cars accelerated and braked significantly more sharply than they did when piloting themselves. Another showed that the cars’ software was much better at maintaining a safe distance from the vehicle ahead than the human drivers were. “We’re spending less time in near-collision states,” said Urmson. “Our car is driving more smoothly and more safely than our trained professional drivers.”
]]>google cars driving safety roads humans robots automationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7aeed9b5001b/The New York Review of Bots2013-10-23T22:35:43+00:00
http://nybots.tumblr.com/
jmrobots bots tumblr ai word-frequency markov-chain random twitterhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:43a0cf29c272/The Ethics of Autonomous Cars2013-10-11T09:57:34+00:00
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/the-ethics-of-autonomous-cars/280360/
jmSometimes good judgment can compel us to act illegally. Should a self-driving vehicle get to make that same decision?
]]>ethics stories via:chris-horn the-atlantic driving cars law robots self-driving-vehicleshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:54c7fb33181e/Video: Robots Explain The Irish Economic Crisis2010-12-01T11:15:27+00:00
http://newswhip.ie/national-2/video-robots-explain-the-irish-economic-crisis
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