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by diob 2066 days ago
I wonder if there are companies focusing on solving the opposite problem. In other words, AI to focus on things humans don't perceive (leaving the driving to the human). For instance, figuring out the person in another car is drunk, then alerting you to avoid them. Or detecting emergency personnel needing you to get out of the way (can't tell you how often I see folks blocking or oblivious).

This goes along with my experience in new cars in that the best improvements are those that enhance my ability to drive (such as a backup camera).

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The more I work in and watch the ML/AI space, the more I’m convinced the better approach is similar to what you describe: “augmentation” of humans’ abilities and skills rather than replacement of them.

Using advanced AI, or even a bunch of semi-decent models to condense information, highlight things humans might miss, enrich with predictions, etc so that humans don’t have to spend as much time wading through data themselves to try and extract meaning and can instead jump straight to more informed decision making seems like a better approach to me than “lol can we make a neural net that does lawyer things?”