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by olivermuty 527 days ago
I mean… I agree that LLMs give only superficial value, but your analogy is plain wrong.

I drove 3600 km Norway to Spain in 2018 with only adaptive cruise. Then again in 2023 with autonomous highway driving (the kind where you keep a hand on the wheel for failure mode) and it was amaaaazing how big the difference was.
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zestyping 522 days ago
Wait, can you say more about that? That doesn't match my intuitions very well, so I'd like to understand what made it such a big difference to you.

Were you using Tesla Autopilot? If I were using Autopilot, I'd have to be constantly watching out for its mistakes, which would probably be equally or more stressful compared to using adaptive cruise.

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zkry 527 days ago
I get how I could be wrong on that front. I guess what I was trying to say was that there needs to be legible, predictable infrastructure for these AI systems to work well. I actually think that an LLM workflow in a constrained, well understood environment would be amazingly good too.

I've been driving a lot in Istanbul lately and I'm not holding my breath for autonomous vehicles any time soon.

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