I saw this comment in an earlier post in this thread : "Now I wonder how often bing 3D data is updated... and expanded."  

Not that often I would say.

I think it depends of which areas we're talking about. Places like Asia, Africa etc might not be updated as often as highly populated areas, cities etc. I live in Denmark, and took a look in one of the larger cities in the country, and found several places that hadn't been updated for a loooong time, ie my family build a house in 2008, but in Bing it's still only a building site, even though today I think there's around 90-100 houses on that site. And also poi's in the capital city and in the second largest city in Denmark, are not in Bing even though it's maybe 10 or more years since they have been build. The funny thing is that both Google Maps and Google Earth is up to date with the things I mentioned, so it looks like Bing isn't updated that often.

Edited October 11, 20196 yr by jlund

17 hours ago, cepact said:

Artificial intelligence, machine learning ... all these things are strongly overrated.

It's just code, sequence of conditional statements, dictionnaries, image detection algorithms etc.. things that exist since the beginning of computers but now they replace everything with these "cool" terms like AI, machine learning, data science etc.. they sound cool but nothing revolutionary. There is no way a processor with transistors can come close to an human intelligence.

I appreciate the point of view..  Before I respond to it, if I am being honest what you said here is probably something I myself said 2 years ago, so I completely understand where you're coming from, determinism.. etc... Also AI is banded around to cover highly deterministic systems based on rules... such as computer game AI.... and in the FS world... aircraft AI... this of course isn't AI at all, highly diluting the topic and a reason why many dismiss it quickly..

In my humble opinion it is unwise to dismiss the research and development into AI systems where the end goal of AGI.  AI will, in a shorter time than you think be able to very effectively program itself, improve itself, better itself, in exactly the same way you do biologically with neuron pathways... but with one major difference, a computer unconstrained by biology will be able to do this several million times faster than you ever could.. biological systems such as us are restricted in the passing of data to around 110m/s, sounds fast but is practically stationary compared to data 'speed' in a machine and hence the ability to process at pace. At the end of the day we're all subject to physics, if you are capable of reasoning, self-learning and self-enhancement... I see no reason why an AI (read AGI) system couldn't exist that could do the same..

It's fascinating.. there are some really good papers and talks on the subject I'd recommend you check out... I'd just respectfully caution you with that stance on this..  I won't mention this anymore in fear of boring people too much!

Is any AI up to creating models of animals at this time? I'm thinking those Flamingos and Elephants in the trailer were created by artists. You may think worrying about the animals is silly, but it's just one example of an object in the world that scenery creators should still be able to improve on or even create in the first place. If Asobo is using artists, then I'm sure other artists can come in and tailor and add models to specific regions.