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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by lisper on Friday April 06, 2018 @03:51PM (#16776774)
You've done a great job of describing the problem. It is manifestly possible to drive missed detection rates very close to zero without too many false alarms because humans are capable of driving safely.
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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by mannykannot on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:29PM (#16777096)
Ah, yes... you have convinced me - though humans can apply generalized intelligence to the problem, which I imagine is particularly useful in lots of special cases.
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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by lisper on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:43PM (#16777223)
General intelligence is not needed. Illiterate people can drive. People who can't do math can drive.
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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by mannykannot on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:16PM (#16777527)
Illiteracy is not incompatible with intelligence.
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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by Tloewald on Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:50PM (#16782140)
So we can get within epsilon for an undefined delta because humans can do something, although not always.

Right, that whole claim about engineering a system that always knows when it’s not working sounds rock solid to me. After all, we can build a human, right?

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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by lisper on Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:57PM (#16782180)
> we can build a human, right?

Not yet. But there's no reason to believe we won't be able to eventually.

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