| >Some intelligence is simply less intelligent than others. I completely agree with you there, you're preaching to the choir. To compare apples & oranges I could say how would you feel if you were surrounded on a dangerous freeway with nothing but noticeably below-average drivers including the vehicle you were in. Natually I expect many passengers have become familiar with that particular traffic situation a time or two. IOW not just below average but below ordinary expectations, and as mentioned dangerously so. Natural intelligence, or lack of enough in the case of many who are performing noticeably below average, can only take you so far and it has always been a limitation. OTOH would you feel more comfortable with all automated drivers instead having noticeably below-average performance due to their less intelligent below-average automaton behavior? What if you noticed something your driver did not? What could you do to alert a driver that truly needs a little advice from the back seat for instance, whether for navigation, safety, or far more elusively a sense of danger or even courtesy, in either case? Would your observations as a passenger have any possibility of ever being helpful in either situation? Would the relative artificiality of the intelligence or lack of it involved be a factor? What if it was not just below-average drivers but some of the traditionally worst who are barely acceptable and realistically for them it's only under ideal conditions? Seems to me risks increase exponentially the further from ideal, and the deviation between natural and artificial types of risks could result in a valley having its own kind of uncanniness. Personally speaking as the strongest advocate toward ML & automation most people have met over the last 50 years. |