Connectivity will improve at an accelerating rate, making autonomous driving a reality in the near future.
The 2017 U.S. military budget allocates three billion dollars for human-machine collaborations known as Centaur Warfighting, and a long-range missile that will make autonomous targeting decisions is in the pipeline for the following year.
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In Barcelona a few days ago, Volvo demonstrated a platoon of autonomous cars on a motorway.As they become smarter and more widespread, autonomous machines are bound to end up making life-or-death decisions in unpredictable situations, thus assuming or at least appearing to assume moral agency.
"In the years ahead, we'll see new types of autonomous machines with more advanced capabilities as we make progress on one of the most difficult challenges of AI: getting our devices not just to see, but also to think".
"A full-featured, Level 2+ system requires significantly more computational horsepower and sophisticated software than what is on the road today," Rob Csongor, vice president of Autonomous Machines at Nvidia said, adding that the company's system makes it possible for carmakers to quickly deploy advanced autonomous solutions by 2020 and to scale this solution to higher levels of autonomy faster.
TerraMax, a robotics kit made by Oshkosh Defense, based in Wisconsin, turns military lorries or armoured vehicles into remotely controlled or autonomous machines.
Autonomous machines of the future, he said, will increasingly have emotions for the same reason that people have them: to protect themselves as well as to make choices among competing demands for their attention as well as a mechanism for social cooperation.
Deepu Talla, VP and GM of Autonomous Machines at Nvidia, explained it best with this analogy: "NVDLA is like providing all the ingredients for somebody to make it a dish including the instructions.
