Thanks to Google our commutes might start sucking a little bit less as they may be able to use artificial intelligence to better direct the flow of traffic per their new Project Green Light.
Geek Wire explains:
“Next time you avoid sitting at a red light in Seattle, Google’s ‘Project Green Light’ might have something to do with it.
The tech giant is working with 13 cities around the world — with Seattle being the first in the U.S. — to help optimize traffic lights and make traffic flow more efficiently. Google’s ultimate goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles stuck in stop-and-go traffic.
The Google Research initiative relies on artificial intelligence and driving trends from Google Maps to model traffic patterns and make recommendations for optimizing existing traffic light plans. Tweaks can be applied to existing infrastructure in as little as five minutes, according to a Google blog post last month.”
It’s also possible that instead of quoting Geek Wire I’ll soon be quoting AI to bring this information to you. As Google is also working on a news writing AI known as Genesis that can take facts and churn out news articles. If it works well enough I may not even be needed at all anymore.
Oh well, at least my photography skills will still be in high demand. Then again, maybe not. As Google is also working on a way to make it so that we have never have to take another selfie ever again.
Peta Pixel sums it up best:
“Google says it is developing an artificial intelligence (AI) software that is trained off real photos of a user and can then generate an infinite number of selfies so that a user doesn’t even have to activate their camera to post to Instagram.
At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity yesterday, Robert Wong, vice president of Google Creative Lab, says that the technology would eliminate the need for people to continuously and tediously pose and capture photos of themselves in real life, Fortune reports.
Adding to that, Google’s senior vice president of research, technology, and society, James Manyika said that the growth of generative AI is akin to the invention of the camera and would have similar effects on the creative community.
‘When photography first arrived, many worried it signaled the end of art because it threatened to disrupt significant areas of work, like landscape painting and portraiture,’ Manyika says.
‘However, in many ways the opposite turned out to be true. Freed from the need to accurately reproduce reality, painters went to new places leading to the rise of impressionism, modernism, and so much more.'”
Freed from having to create selfies, write news articles, or sit in traffic modern humans may be on the verge of similar breakthroughs. All thanks to Google.
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