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by JibberMeTimbers
3983 days ago
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We can throw the same question right back at you. What would you do - kill the girl or kill yourself? These hypotheticals don't really help the conversation. I don't know how the car would react but it would be nice to know if the car is going to try and work with neighboring cars to try and not hurt anyone. Not to mention that the car will already see the girl crossing the highway before she ever does get out there because of how sophisticated the sensors are. |
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Unless the AI behind these cars are so advanced that we cannot know ahead of time what it would do and it cannot be put in a simulation to test it, there is a vast difference between a self driving car and a human. Namely, we don't (and with the current level of knowledge can't) know what a human will do til after the situation occurs. And in general, in snap judgment cases like this, we do not punish a person for making a bad choice unless it is outright malicious.
Contrary to this, a self driving car is in a system who we can attempt to simulate (though not at perfect fidelity) and one where we know the underlying algorithms enough to answer the question and even change the algorithms to change the answer before the situation ever occurs.
>Not to mention that the car will already see the girl crossing the highway before she ever does get out there because of how sophisticated the sensors are.
This is attacking the situation instead of answering it. All I would have to do is modify the situation slightly and the question would remain just as valid and thus the response does nothing but postpone.