[seanmcdirmid]

The DARPA grand challenge that represented the thought that this was even possibly only happened in 2004 (29 years ago). I heard they even have autonomous taxis in SF now, which was more progress than I would have predicted 10 years ago.

10 years ago was when Siri and the other voice assistants came out right? I see a huge amount of progress between then and now, but these LLMs sort of snuck up on us in the last two years. I don’t think we are hitting an AI winter anytime soon.

[jrflowers]

> I heard they even have autonomous taxis in SF now

It is always spooky seeing how good the driver less taxis are

https://videos.files.wordpress.com/M9Dl3QYN/robocars.mp4

[filoleg]

Just a nit, DARPA grand challenge in 2004 wasn’t 29 years ago, it was 19 years ago (or almost 20 years ago, if you round up by a month).