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drewprops
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
 
2022-09-13, 21:45

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Originally Posted by Brad View Post
By the way, you know how captchas have been asking you to identify cars and crosswalks and traffic signals and trees over the past many years? Every time you answer one, you are providing labels to those images so that Google (and friends) can feed them into their own machine-learning models. They are building a massive library of billions of driving-related images to help power the software of self-driving cars. Google isn't relying solely on that torrent of data to drive a car, but they are using it to double-check their own custom AI software's behaviors.
Mind blown.
I just didn't think about it.
The older I get the more blown away I am by how many opportunities there are to make money by developing niche software.

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