Re:Self-driving cars are bullshit
by morpheos137 on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:41PM
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It just shows how out of touch with reality the "mainstream" media is. For years reputable publications like NYT, WSJ, The Atlantic, were heralding the arrival of driverless cars. And yet there is really no engineering basis for them at present. Before we can have driverless cars we will need something akin to AGI.
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To expect a majority of journalists to recognize this sort of hype is unreasonable. Most people here on HN (not I, to pat myself on the back) were equally, perhaps more, credulous about self-driving cars. If a tech forum like HN called it wrong, anyone could.
> Before we can have driverless cars we will need something akin to AGI.
Not even close.
unless you torture the definition of self-driving vehicle to mean limited driving capability on highly altered 'smart streets' or whatever, yes it's absolutely true.
As the article points out, ML is fundamentally way too brittle to deal with the long tail of issues that humans solve through common sense reasoning.
We're like two or three paradigm shifts in AI away from having anything that solves open ended, problems in uncontrolled environments without glitching out like a Roomba.