Delphi Automotive on Friday offered a new description of an encounter on a California road between one of its prototype self-driving cars and a self-driving vehicle operated by Google, saying “the vehicles didn’t even come close to each other.” The description differed from Delphi’s original account on Thursday, when a company official told Reuters that a Google self-driving car on Tuesday “cut off” a Delphi self-driving car that was beginning to make a lane change. The incident occurred in Palo Alto, and no collision took place. The official was a […]
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For Facebook and Google, it’s not enough for computers to recognize images… they should create images, too. Both tech firms have just shown off neural networks that automatically generate pictures based on their understanding of what objects look like.Facebook’s approach uses two of these networks to produce tiny thumbnail images. The technique is much like what you’d experience if you learned painting from a harsh (if not especially daring) critic. The first algorithm creates pictures based on a random vector, while the second checks them for realistic objects and rejects […]
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