{"id":1464,"date":"2016-04-29T12:49:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T10:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2016-04-29T08:23:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T06:23:40","slug":"who-said-knight-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2016\/04\/29\/who-said-knight-rider\/","title":{"rendered":"Who said Knight Rider?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3062661\/consumer-electronics\/nvidia-gpu-powered-autonomous-car-teaches-itself-to-see-and-steer.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/04\/nvidia-car-project-100658383-primary.idge_.png?w=910\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Nvidia\u2019s breakthrough is the autonomous vehicle automatically taught itself to drive by watching how a human drove.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3062661\/consumer-electronics\/nvidia-gpu-powered-autonomous-car-teaches-itself-to-see-and-steer.html\">Nvidia GPU-powered autonomous car teaches itself to see and steer | Network World <\/a><\/em>coming from <a href=\"https:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/story\/16\/04\/28\/1933201\/nvidia-gpu-powered-autonomous-car-teaches-itself-to-see-and-steer\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;KITT, drive me home!&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI can&#8217;t believe no one has&#8217;t already cited Michael Knight and KITT of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knight_Rider_%281982_TV_series%29\">Knight Rider<\/a>&#8221; the TV series that launched David Hasselhoff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The good new is that they are using Software Libero<sup id=\"fnref-1464-1\"><a href=\"#fn-1464-1\">1<\/a><\/sup>, namely the <a href=\"http:\/\/torch.ch\/\" target=\"new\">Torch 7<\/a> machine learning system.<\/p>\n<p>The bad new is that the journalist has been using the wording &#8220;open-source&#8221; which in that case may be syntomatic of the focus of the utilitarian approach without ethical implications.<\/p>\n<p>Mind me, I would only be happy if they are successful <strong>and<\/strong> be widely profitable. It&#8217;s hard to <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"en\">reconcile ethics and <span class=\"\">business<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li id=\"fn-1464-1\">\nI&#8217;m sticking to the Italian wording as it is not ambiguous like English.&#160;<a href=\"#fnref-1464-1\">&#8617;<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Nvidia\u2019s breakthrough is the autonomous vehicle automatically taught itself to drive by watching how a human drove. I&#8217;ve just read Nvidia GPU-powered autonomous car teaches itself to see and steer | Network World coming from Slashdot. &#8220;KITT, drive me home!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2016\/04\/29\/who-said-knight-rider\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[105,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-mood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-nC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4989,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/12\/04\/nvidia-uses-ai-to-render-virtual-worlds-in-real-time-slashdot\/","url_meta":{"origin":1464,"position":0},"title":"Nvidia Uses AI To Render Virtual Worlds In Real Time &#8211; Slashdot","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2018-12-04","format":false,"excerpt":"Nvidia Uses AI To Render Virtual Worlds In Real Time - Slashdot Well, that's really impressive. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ayPqjPekn7g","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Senza categoria&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Senza categoria","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/category\/senza-categoria\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/ayPqjPekn7g\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5381,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2019\/03\/20\/wow-factor-is-skyrocketing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1464,"position":1},"title":"Wow factor is skyrocketing","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2019-03-20","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow factor is skyrocketing: see NVIDIA's Latest AI Software Turns Rough Doodles Into Realistic Landscapes - Slashdot and Crytek Shows 4K 30 FPS Ray Tracing On Non-RTX AMD and NVIDIA GPUs https:\/\/youtu.be\/p5U4NgVGAwg https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1nqhkDm2_Tw","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fun&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fun","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/category\/fun\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/p5U4NgVGAwg\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10398,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2023\/04\/23\/is-your-road-10m-wide\/","url_meta":{"origin":1464,"position":2},"title":"Is your road 10m wide?","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2023-04-23","format":false,"excerpt":"According to italian Azienda Nazionale Autonoma delle Strade ('National Autonomous Road Company',) cars can be up to 2.55m. 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