[Eridrus]

This definitely seems like an idea created and propagated by people with no idea about how these systems work. The Cruise Automation/GM videos show the cars crossing lane markings when a truck is blocking traffic in their lane, so these systems are being built to realise that while traffic laws may say one thing, practice requires something different.

Certainly entertaining though.

[ChuckMcM]

I agree, it was entertaining. You can imagine the next James Bond car has a gadget with two paint dispensers that shoots out on a rail to one side of the car, starts firing paint and then moves out to the right drawing a double yellow line that forces the bad guys in their self driving car off on to the shoulder :-). And no, I don't think any self driving car worth it's salt would fall for this. Fun to simulate though.

I enjoyed that 'smart car' joke that went "I was standing in the garage because I had forgotten where I had parked my self driving car, then it hit me."

[stefco_]

I'm not totally sure that it's correct to group the artist with people who think lazily about AI. If the artist was trying to literally suggest that this trap would work, then, yeah, that would be silly and misinformed. But I think he was just being cheeky and using this as an example of a rule outside of its context being rendered meaningless (which is explicitly declared to be the point of the work). That in itself is a worthwhile point in a deeper way (because your model always fails when you hit outliers you haven't trained for), and I kind of liked that the visual form was of a car-summoning ritual.

Or maybe the artist is just a lazy anti-AI person and I am giving him too much credit. But I wouldn't say it's a foregone conclusion.

[gniv]

"They are more like guidelines, anyway"