Tony is a Geek

Okay, I'm not going to teach anything myself here, I'm going to share 3 videos that are rather interesting. I'll go back to stating "AI is not magic" ( there is a video of me with that title knocking around on a hard-drive somewhere that I keep teasing people with - I'll find & share it one day - okay that day became TODAY ) These 3 videos are a great tutorial introduction to show "under the bonnet" how genetic algorithms work and how they can be applied. The first 6mins or so are a great intro to how genetics work for humans/animals and this is key to understand in order to understand how the cars "teach" each other.  Spoiler warning: there is no teaching In order to follow along at home, you can either just watch the 3 videos or set this up yourselves: You'll need a copy of: UNITY 2021.3 & this starter car pack:  https://www.holistic3d.com/resources Within Unity, Open the race-track and then the car.  Turn the car on...  actua...

 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 scienti...