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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by Barrin92 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:44PM (#21465599)
it speaks to a general problem of ML systems. Real-world problems are open-ended and a system that cannot reason about what it sees but merely applies object classification is completely clueless and won't reach a level of fidelity that is needed for safety.

I'm increasingly convinced that virtually every unstructured problem in the physical world is an AI-hard problem and we won't be seeing fully autonomous driving for decades.

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by gdulli on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @02:55PM (#21466461)
We as humans possess some skills that are so profoundly important but also so subtle that we don't even recognize them as skills. And excessive optimism about AI is a lack of recognition of how fundamental those skills are to our navigation of the world (both figuratively and literally.)
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