Truly autonomous cars may be impossible without helpful human touch

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1 point·dinom··4 comments

Self driving Artificial Intelligence lacks the most important element --- intelligence.

I tend to agree. There's a certain type of hubris humanity must have to think we can improve on our natural design. And even if we can... then all we've accomplished is making ourselves obsolete.

A computer is a binary logic playback device.

It is an extremely useful tool in a multitude of situations. But it is about as "intelligent" as a hammer.

Nothing illustrates this better than attempting to apply it to real time judgment and decision making tasks involving an endless number of possible scenarios.

It is an exercise in futility. No matter how hard you try, edge cases still exist that that are unaccounted for. And with something like FSD, these can be deadly.

FSD should never be released to the public until the software developers are willing to put their own lives on the line and test it over an extended period of time.

All that said, I think one of the issues is that the idea of a full self-driving vehicle is put front and center. It's a double-edged sword because working towards that goal may be admirable but thinking it's attainable is foolhardy.

I see automation as certainly being helpful to drive down the costs of transportation. But, IMHO it should be understood that we'll never be able to remove human judgement completely.

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