1897: Self Driving

2017-10-02T11:14:17Z

Asdfsdf: this comic is not about about spam-bots circumventing CAPTCHAs by having their own (porn) website, but it is about Google's approach of teaching AI

{{comic
| number = 1897
| date = October 2, 2017
| title = Self Driving
| image = self_driving.png
| titletext = "Crowdsourced steering" doesn't sound quite as appealing as "self driving."
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|First draft - still no mention of the caption beneath the frame...}}
This comic references the approach of teaching artificial intelligence by letting humans create the learning set using CAPTCHAs. This approach was originally used by Google to identify house numbers for Google Street View. But nowadays Google uses CAPTCHAs to identify street signs.

But here, instead of teaching an AI, the answer is used in real time to check whether the "self-driving" car is about to arrive at an intersection with a stop sign. This information is pretty critical, as failing to mark the stop could cause an accident.

The title text explains that this method could be called "crowdsourced steering", [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing crowdsourcing] meaning sending the data on the internet to let several users provide their ideas and input on a problem, but that this doesn't sound as safe as "self driving".

==Transcript==
:[Inside a frame there is the following text above an image:]
:To complete your registration, please tell us whether or not this image contains a stop sign:

:[The square image is a drawing of a road leading up to a sign post with a hard to read word at the top part of the sign. The sign also has two smaller signs left and right with unreadable text. The image is of poor quality, but threes and other obstacles next to the road can be seen. Darkness around the edges of the image could indicate that it is night and the landscape is only lit up by a cars head lights.]
:Sign: Stop

:[Beneath the image there are two large gray buttons with a word in each:]
:No Yes

:[Beneath the buttons are the following text:]
:Answer quickly-our self-driving car is almost at the intersection.

:[Caption beneath the frame:]
:So much of "AI" is just figuring out way to offload work onto random strangers.

{{comic discussion}}

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1897: Self Driving