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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by eloff on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:57AM (#35387239)
I went with a mechanic in a chair lift once. He was very nervous, saying he knows the kind of people who maintain these things, and he knows the kinds of things that can go wrong. I feel the same way about automation, whether it be self driving cars or an X-ray machine. I know the kind of people that program them, and the vast number of ways things can go wrong.
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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by htrp on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:20AM (#35387555)
How many CV engineers own a self driving car becomes the AI equivalent question?
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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday March 31, 2023 @11:11AM (#35388294)
I work in the medical device field. Funny you should say that because just yesterday I was looking at some really crappy (but still safe, mind you!) code and wondering how I'd feel if I were being wheeled into the OR, knowing "how the sausage is made."
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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by Sakos on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:40AM (#35422486)
Do we at least still use hardware interlocks? I hope we still use hardware interlocks.
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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by HeyLaughingBoy on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:38AM (#35424352)
Hardware "interlocks" are used when the risk cannot be reduced to an acceptable level by software alone.
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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by Turing_Machine on Friday March 31, 2023 @12:39PM (#35389626)
With self-driving cars, you also need to consider the kind of people who might be driving them manually. Drunk, sleepy, prone to road rage, distracted by noisy kids in the car, thinking about their financial or relationship problems... there's a terrible amount of death and shattered lives to consider there.

If I remember right, during the height of the most recent Iraq war, a U.S. soldier had a higher probability of being killed in a traffic accident while in the United States than being killed while actively deployed in Iraq.

If a (so-called) self-driving car screws up and kills some people, it's headline news everywhere. If Joe Blow downs five shots of scotch after being chewed out by his boss and crashes into a carload of kids, it barely makes the local news.

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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by mthoms on Saturday April 01, 2023 @12:40PM (#35401671)
>he knows the kinds of things that can go wrong

Sounds like he didn't know nearly as much as he thought. Chairlifts are remarkably safe.

https://newtoski.com/are-chairlifts-safe/

I get the point you're making though.

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