It is my contention that AI computer driven race cars will be
able to best the best efforts of human drivers in the next few years.
And soon, unmanned aerial vehicles which are fully autonomous will be
able to win a dog-fight with a human fighter pilot ace. I just see the
writing on the walls really, I don't even care to debate it with a
"species-centric" human at this point, as any debates to the contrary
are bathed in arrogance, ignorance, and boastful human pride, something
that humans really are better at than computers.
Not long ago, I was discussing the joys of racing with an acquaintance, you see I have done a little "illegal street racing" in my youth, and later some officially approved track racing on motorcycles (street bikes). My acquaintance said;
"sometimes getting sideways can be fun, possesses a challenge for high speed processing, full body awareness and synchronization having to make yourself and machine recover straight, balancing torque and traction, rpm's and gears, calculating power by air temp and density, ground surface and temp, makes for some true driving fun and a good stress test. Of course it helps if you can change your perception of time, which is an awesome tool and in front of a crowd it can make jaws drop."
He was referring to the "slow-motion" trick of the brain during times of high stress, adrenaline, and heart rate, perhaps you've felt that sensation, as it takes you into a different realm making everything happening very fast, seem very slow. Now then, how much of this can we program a computer to do? I'd say most all of it, thus, Artificial Intelligence should one day; rule the day and the race.
You see, I understand what my acquaintance was taking about here, and yes, it is amazing what the human mind can do and process very quickly. I can remember, especially in street racing on two-lane country roads when everyone is standing and watching the starting line, so, I always tried to warn people to move back, because this thing has raw power and, quite frankly, I'd rather just stay on the gas.
Now when involved in motorcycle street bike racing the processing, during the adrenalin rush was awesome, and the slow-mo sensation worth doing again and again. In canyon burning, sports car stuff, I must say sometimes I felt more in control going sideways than wondering when "exactly" the wheels might break lose, now they call all that "drifting" an actual motorsport, back then on the tight turns it was induced merely for control, fun stuff.
Yes, it is all math isn't it, I guess everything is really, physics, chemistry, math (including probability). It's amazing how well the human body-mind adapt. I sat down with a guy who created a motorcycle that drives by itself at the first DARPA Challenge; it wobbles at first, but can drive itself without falling over and negotiate obstacles.
Can we design a robot to drive or race a car, considering all the variables? Then have it learn as it goes (AI) and download the information to a central source, which could simultaneously update the program in all the units of that type. There are some things that machines have trouble doing, and it is difficult to do it? My acquaintance makes an interesting point;
"A theory I have about Time perception is if you can slow it in your mind, you can appear to move faster."
Right, this has been my experience in sports, racing, flying, etc. People who smoke trick their minds into believing that time has slowed down (nicotine). The natural brain chemicals released under some circumstances obviously does something, perhaps induced by fear, adrenals, or whatever transpires during intense focus + high heart rates, etc. Maybe it has to do with brain waves also, or a combination of things, but if we can induce it at will, imagine the benefits to an organic system in competition, battle, or under a serious situation which was life threatening or ultra critical, if we could induce it, we win.
In a computer system or artificially intelligent machine, it does not perceive time at all, it processes as fast as it is able and puts in the controls based on the situation, parameters, and programming. It doesn't care, fear, or have the emotional adrenal rush. Thus, in some regards it has the advantage, perhaps in others not so much.
But in the end with an ultra-fast, almost unlimited ability to process the information quickly, and respond with the control input, it would be next to impossible to beat, plus, it wouldn't ever experience pilot error, only computer failure, or a programming flaw, which would be fixed and thus, stronger and faster next time, and able to download the better results to all the other AI race car computers in an instant during the uploading process. See that point too?
Not long ago, I was discussing the joys of racing with an acquaintance, you see I have done a little "illegal street racing" in my youth, and later some officially approved track racing on motorcycles (street bikes). My acquaintance said;
"sometimes getting sideways can be fun, possesses a challenge for high speed processing, full body awareness and synchronization having to make yourself and machine recover straight, balancing torque and traction, rpm's and gears, calculating power by air temp and density, ground surface and temp, makes for some true driving fun and a good stress test. Of course it helps if you can change your perception of time, which is an awesome tool and in front of a crowd it can make jaws drop."
He was referring to the "slow-motion" trick of the brain during times of high stress, adrenaline, and heart rate, perhaps you've felt that sensation, as it takes you into a different realm making everything happening very fast, seem very slow. Now then, how much of this can we program a computer to do? I'd say most all of it, thus, Artificial Intelligence should one day; rule the day and the race.
You see, I understand what my acquaintance was taking about here, and yes, it is amazing what the human mind can do and process very quickly. I can remember, especially in street racing on two-lane country roads when everyone is standing and watching the starting line, so, I always tried to warn people to move back, because this thing has raw power and, quite frankly, I'd rather just stay on the gas.
Now when involved in motorcycle street bike racing the processing, during the adrenalin rush was awesome, and the slow-mo sensation worth doing again and again. In canyon burning, sports car stuff, I must say sometimes I felt more in control going sideways than wondering when "exactly" the wheels might break lose, now they call all that "drifting" an actual motorsport, back then on the tight turns it was induced merely for control, fun stuff.
Yes, it is all math isn't it, I guess everything is really, physics, chemistry, math (including probability). It's amazing how well the human body-mind adapt. I sat down with a guy who created a motorcycle that drives by itself at the first DARPA Challenge; it wobbles at first, but can drive itself without falling over and negotiate obstacles.
Can we design a robot to drive or race a car, considering all the variables? Then have it learn as it goes (AI) and download the information to a central source, which could simultaneously update the program in all the units of that type. There are some things that machines have trouble doing, and it is difficult to do it? My acquaintance makes an interesting point;
"A theory I have about Time perception is if you can slow it in your mind, you can appear to move faster."
Right, this has been my experience in sports, racing, flying, etc. People who smoke trick their minds into believing that time has slowed down (nicotine). The natural brain chemicals released under some circumstances obviously does something, perhaps induced by fear, adrenals, or whatever transpires during intense focus + high heart rates, etc. Maybe it has to do with brain waves also, or a combination of things, but if we can induce it at will, imagine the benefits to an organic system in competition, battle, or under a serious situation which was life threatening or ultra critical, if we could induce it, we win.
In a computer system or artificially intelligent machine, it does not perceive time at all, it processes as fast as it is able and puts in the controls based on the situation, parameters, and programming. It doesn't care, fear, or have the emotional adrenal rush. Thus, in some regards it has the advantage, perhaps in others not so much.
But in the end with an ultra-fast, almost unlimited ability to process the information quickly, and respond with the control input, it would be next to impossible to beat, plus, it wouldn't ever experience pilot error, only computer failure, or a programming flaw, which would be fixed and thus, stronger and faster next time, and able to download the better results to all the other AI race car computers in an instant during the uploading process. See that point too?
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