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by charcircuit 1857 days ago
>People don’t make better decisions when given more data, so why do we assume A.I. will?

Because humans aren't computers. Computers are much better at being able to handle processing large amounts of data than humans can.

>we are decades away from self-driving cars

Self driving cars already exist. In college I had a lab where everyone had to program essentially a miniature car with sensors on it to drive around by itself. Making a car drive by itself is not a hard thing to accomplish.

>the largest social media companies still rely heavily on armies of human beings to scrub the most horrific content off their platforms.

This content is often subjective. It's impossible for a computer to always make the correct subjective choice, no humans will always be necessary