Comment by leeoniya
1 year ago
ELI5? so, presumably if you put this thing in front of any starting gate it can navigate any course of similar gates?
or was it overfitted to this specific course?
1 year ago
ELI5? so, presumably if you put this thing in front of any starting gate it can navigate any course of similar gates?
or was it overfitted to this specific course?
They had no prior knowledge of the course.
I don't think so. The article says the race track was controlled by the race organisers but not that it wasn't known to the participants before the race.
Anyway given the state of the art, flying autonomously at great speeds and beating human champions without pre-training, i.e. on an unknown race track, would be a much bigger breakthrough than just beating some human champions (which has already happened except in a less official environment). You can rest assured that if that was what the team achieved, the article would be telling us all about it.
Shoot, you're totally right. They had no prior knowledge before the event, but I don't know how they teach it the course. There's more than one gate visible at a time, so they must do something to fine-tune it.
That being said, I'm sure they have a base model too, so I'm right back to wondering about the parent question: would it work if you set it down in front of a few fresh gates?
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