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by rjromero
3019 days ago
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I’m pretty sure if Arizona’s lawmakers understood the underlying nature of machine learning and autonomous driving, they wouldn’t allow self driving cars to operate. I don’t care how good your models and data are, until you’re able to write an algorithm that can fully handle and learn from a situation it was completely unprepared for, it will always encounter edge cases like this. This is what happens when we have a society of people saying AI is already here, people like Elon Musk saying AI is a “significant threat” despite "AI" being essentially a black box statistical model in it's current form. From what I’ve seen, the general public thinks we’re 20+ years of AI than we really are. You need general AI before AI can drive a car, full stop. Otherwise, you need to isolate roads from other human drivers pedestrians, and cyclists. It just won’t be reasonably safe until then. |
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1.3 million people died in the USA from car crashes in 2017. An additional 20-50 million are injured. You don't need to be perfect, you just need to be better than the baseline.
That said, and to be fair to your feelings, Uber certainly is not better. This is a fact I'm sure lawmakers in Arizona are discussing right now.