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A.I. is magic, isn't it?

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 I am often baffled by the external perception ( ie. people who don't work with this stuff everyday ) that is portrayed about A.I.. I also have issue with the usage of the term A.I. - as far as I am aware, we / humans, have not yet successfully created an Artificial Intelligence.  We have created human children, that have somewhat of a limited intelligence, but we have absolutely and genuinely no idea "how" we created the childs intelligence, that is a mystery.  Before, b!tching at me that we are the all knowing masters of the planet Earth and we are far superior, we have scientists and we know how everything works.... we don't. fact.  We can sit down with pen & paper in my garage and draw out exactly how the cars in my garage work.  We can pick any piece, strip it down, figure it out & rebuild it.  Because we have an understanding, we potentially can even improve certain elements, such as carbs or fuel injection manifolds. However, we ( mad scientists apart )

Raspberry Pi and an affordable LIDAR

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 Now, here's a thing of joy that won't break the bank.... Well....£245 isn't "cheap", but it's about 10 times cheaper than they were when I last looked! https://www.dfrobot.com/product-1461.html I wonder if I could stick it on the roof of my 1959 Austin A35?..... now that could be interesting.... Well, these people have a slightly more expensive LIDAR and stuck it on top of a 3D Printed (?) vehicle - again, it's all about the software behind the hardware:  https://nuro.ai/product