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Re:California passes law banning Tesla from calling software... by simonh on Saturday December 24, 2022 @11:49AM (#34118531)
In which case he’s even more wrong. Humans use a whole mess of different senses while driving, including hearing, the inertial sensitivity in the inner ear, touch to feel vibrations and from the car and the wheels on the road. Plus we have a huge amount of contextual information about the meaning of what we are seeing from life experience outside driving, which no Tesla that currently exists can ever have.

It’s a clever bit of snark, but absurdly wide of the mark. If that’s actuary what the Tesla engineers think, no wonder they’re failing by their own criteria so completely.

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Re:California passes law banning Tesla from calling software... by gcanyon on Saturday December 24, 2022 @12:19PM (#34118834)
The claim isn't that humans can drive as well using the Tesla cameras as they can in person, just that they can. That seems obviously true.

The (not explicitly made) sub-claim is that an AI can make up for the lack of audio, etc. by being smarter than a human and faster than a human, better able to multi-task than a human, and completely non-distractible. That's debatable, but not impossible.

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Re:California passes law banning Tesla from calling software... by danaris on Saturday December 24, 2022 @12:31PM (#34118968)
...And furthermore, the neural nets and cameras Tesla uses are vastly inferior to our brains. Just because you can argue that a neural network of some kind uses the same basic structures as our brains doesn't mean that it can come within a light-year of what our brains can actually do.
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