Autonomous Helicopters Teach Themselves to Fly Stunts

[@chromophore]

Andrew Ng is an extremely cool prof!

[@uniqueuserrname]

I read their paper and also spent the last year learning to fly RC helicopters. 1) it's EXEEDINGLY difficult to even FLY the flipping thing, 2) the computer learns it in 11 goes. Also - it can only "clean up" what the human did - so cannot find the 'perfect' trick - only an improvement on what the human did. Awesome. This RC heli could hover upside down for as long as the electricity and petrol lasted. I would have passed out from concentration. 5 minute flights are the limit for me !

[@timothyhenry3841]

Who else got here from Lex Fridman's podcast with Andrew Ng?

[@oneofuskruse1108]

I did!! Finished it and went straight here.

[@bluestacks661]

Lex's podcast-->AI course with Andrew (coursera)-->here :D

[@vinothborn2win]

🙋🙌🏽

[@pcs_PradeepJha]

I did

[@dadecountyboos]

same

[@muditgoswami2091]

watched the lex Fridman podcast with Andrew ng and then came to knew about it...exciting it is

[@adityajoshi9207]

Me too. Came here after listening that podcast on Spotify

[@johnson4u]

One more cool demo of what AI can do. Hats off to you folks!

[@Eay5paev]

awesome. Yet a bit scary as such tech could be used to improve drones agility.

[@d3adp001]

It copies and pastes the perimeters into its program, and then cleans them up a bit.

[@caracalla212]

Félicitation Monsieurs, j'ai découvert votre performance sur un site français dédié aux sciences. C'est du très bon travail. Encore une fois félicitation. Great job from Paris France.

[@Nick-kq8pg]

No one cares that you speak French

[@monaghandavid]

This type of learning should be used for the vehicles in the DARPA challenge or later autonomous vehicles.

[@bormisha]

Want to join the project? If you can program realtime flight control software, then perhaps you should apply for a post-graduate study. The procedures are published on the University websites.

[@bormisha]

Incredible stunts!

[@krbosak]

chemical, this is a general discussion on what AI and neurals can do. My point and probably your is that they can interpolate smoothly nonlinear multidimensional data with best quality. But most ppl claim this can provide reliable extrapolations towards new maneuvers. I agree, but those extrapolations are in rpactice so close to tested soutions that it will be hard to call those as new maneuvers. Certainly their helico will make really beautiful rolls.

[@Chilldogg]

That's amazing!

[@aaronlee9717]

Coursera course: AI for everyone led me here.

[@anandhegde5723]

me too

[@MovieMad007]

This has been used by the military and police, to build drone aircraft used in theatre and also by City Police in high crime areas!

[@gabrote42]

Came from The Alignment Problem

[@imback3200]

Don't know exactly how old this article is but the U.S.Navy tested an AI helicopter in 2006 and is supposed to be using it now. Although they had a few glitches with it. It wasn't supposed to but it went off course in 2010 and flew into D.C. airspace. I wonder if this was a test by the Navy to see how fast and how efficiently it could be tracked by other agencies and they just didn't want to tip anyone off ahead of time. Kind of reminds me of the Terminator 3 movie. According to one insider all branches of the military are 25-50 years ahead of what the general public sees in the media. Just saying

[@anandhegde5723]

this is very old video

[@airbender0203]

Just an excuse to fly r/c helis! BRILLIANT! I'm SO jealous! I wish I had a grant to pay for mine!

[@robertlam18]

So was the red helicopter flew by human or their program?

[@MmostlyRandom]

pretty cool but it should be titled "humans teach helicopters to fly stunts without a transmitter" its not inventing the moves it is recording stick inputs from a human pilot (essentially he is programming it to copy what he does) will it invent a chaos if you don't show it how to do it 1st. can it combine moves to make new moves without being shown I.E if you show it a regular tail down tic toc can it then combine it with a piro to do 4 point tic tocs. still pretty impressive for what it is.

[@hprof1]

Hello Andrew Ng.

[@yamasubaruger]

Maybe! you dont know what your computer is doing while you not home.

[@playaspec]

If they would only open source their code....

[@aryanchauhan8066]

i guess a lot of non ml people are there

[@joanacarvalho55]

gente 6 anoa todos dias trabalhando sem receber nada como pagamento é muito amor e acreditar demais em Deus e nas pessoas,obrigada

[@luddite333]

How soon until they are outfitted with guns? How soon until the ones with guns malfunction?

[@chickenshieee]

Your first sentence was ok. The second one... fully ignorant.

[@UnconcernedCitizen]

I am bored and this video did not help.

[@chickenshieee]

11 years after... your comment did not age well...

[@nessbrawlaaja]

did you ever find a cure for your boredom?