autonomously

Measurement of progress autonomously means less work, more data and perhaps more chance at success.

Birds don't have air traffic control, they have eyes and a brain and avoid obstacles and each other autonomously.

Previously, this was hardly a problem, because very few machines operated autonomously outside of a building.

Digital systems are capable of acting autonomously as agents; they are not just passive property.

The number of miles driven autonomously doesn't really matter if drivers have to intervene even for a second to resolve an issue.

That other company of which there was an article here a few months ago drove a car autonomously from LA to NYC.

Tomahawks can operate fully autonomously with no substantial loss of functionality.

Cars can drive autonomously, but they can't sense a spill?

You said that Diffbot reads the web autonomously.

> They've driven more than a million miles fully autonomously Zero of those miles were at a speeds > 25 mph.

Some of it is probably a bit of me-too-ism, but keep in mind that both Microsoft and Google are huge companies with a large number of people working semi-autonomously.

— Manipulate native browser APIs (DOM w/o jQuery) — Understand MVC patterns and UI design — Learn quickly, act autonomously, think analytically.

But if we just define learning to be getting better at something "autonomously", machine learning has that property.

For some background, the company is fairly large (15,000 or so total employees), but has a strong focus on technology and there are approximately 25 "capability teams" including mine that function largely independently and autonomously.

As described in the open letter, the "forbidden technology" would sit firmly sandwiched between the well established technology of "seek to kill" missiles that are fully autonomus once fired (as opposed to "seek, then autonomously decide to kill or not", which would be forbidden) and teleoperated equipment which is also explicitly allowed.