Re:The 5th-generation Waymo Driver
by nikanj on Thursday March 05, 2020 @03:54AM
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According to your average SV pitch deck, we are 6-10 months away from reproducing general intelligence. Add in a sprinkling of Pascal's Wager, and your funding is almost guaranteed.
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Which goes back all the way to the Dartmouth workshop, which hoped to get most of the work done in 6-8 weeks. That was in 1956. Is most of the work done? Well there you go. (Your hint that it's a good way to get paid for such work holds, of course, but the expectation that Problems will get Solved...unlikely)