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With no training, actually. Anyone can "figure out" how to drive a car. Me and a friend started stealing his mom's car and joy riding at night at 13. No one taught us how to drive.

Thankfully, shockingly, no one got hurt and we never got caught.

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Well no, not quite - you've had "training" in that you must have seen cars driving around and been driven in one, so you understood that it's a machine that moves, that is controlled with the steering wheel, and that you can make it move by turning the key in the ignition and moving that weird stick in the middle.

All of that is training and you'd need to teach an AI all of those steps too. Just because you didn't have proper driving lessons doesn't mean you didn't come to this with a set of assumptions learned by observation.

I should try driving my laptop around in the back seat with the webcam turned on for a few years and see if it learns how how to drive.

Exactly! With less exposure to driving, the learning could take wildly different paths. E.g., see this comedic example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6v6ZV4Ot1I&t=8s

Well, you had 13 years of seeing your parents drive. Even if you aren't paying attention, it's probably enough to get the basic idea. The AI has never been in a car or seen someone drive before.

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