Self driving cars....
Cars that can drive themselves are a dream that science fiction authors have been writing about since the seventies. But, right now, they are just that, dreams.
As you can see in this article, a Tesla self-driving car accelerated and hit a parked fire truck on a major freeway in California.
Now, I'm not a Tesla engineer, but I do have a suggestion. If you are programming your radar systems to ignore static objects in the way, maybe you should .... I don't know.... program them not to avoid objects right in front of the car. Imagine what would have happened had that firetruck been a cow, horse, deer, or heaven forbid, a human being standing in the way. In the first four instances, the car would have been totaled from the impact with stationary objects weighing more than a thousand pounds, that would have rolled up and over the car. In the last instance, you would have had a dead human being, and the guilt that if you had been paying attention, you would have been able to slow down and stop.
Like, I said, I'm not a Tesla engineer, but I'm betting that there is a way to ignore static objects off of the side of the car, but not static objects right in front of the car.
What do you think?
I think that the news reports are probably biased to the point that they are almost totally wrong.
Not really. This came from a tech journal, and Elon Musk confirmed it. The radar is set to ignore stationary objects.
I read the article.
It would seem that artificial intelligence.......isn't.
Should we be relieved?
AI's are only as smart as the people who programmed them.
We are a long ways away from KITT, aren't we?
if AI's are only as smart as the people who programmed them then how are they different from any other kind of program? What's all the fuss about?
AI is just a form of statistical regression. If you don't know what that means, then try to find out what correlation means, and start from there. By the way, our human minds work like correlators. If you want to understand AI, you have to start doing some homework. But it also means that current AI is not far from KITT at all. In fact, Google has just created a BOT (an AI entity) that makes phone calls and talks to people to arrange reservations; and it sounds just like you and people think it IS you. Think about that!
a little bit condesending are you?
I stand by what I say.
what we have now are expert system.
human level AI doesn't exist yet.
it might never exist.