[BereanBrain]

You may not like it but within 2-3 years the data will show AI based driving is 100x safer than driving yourself.

Have you seen the way people drive? We loose about 30-70k to driving a year.

[ctdonath2]

Autonomous driving is hard. Beta FSD is live now, with excellent results, albeit not quite to the “parked to parked” robotaxi dream. That’s not “scam”, that’s marketing optimism colliding with engineering realities, which is normal for software. Just the regulatory hurdles of letting a car drive around with no occupants is a massive issue.

The video was admittedly made by someone with a massive financial interest in Tesla failing, and he’s trying to force it to. Yes publishers should be held liable for posting libelous content.

[Flying Circus]

Musk is good at marketing and like any marketer, presents an overly optimistic and rosey image of the future. On the other hand from what I gather, Tesla is the leader in both self driving tech and electric cars so his engineering must be doing something right. No one has full self driving capability yet because it is a hard nut to crack technically and has lots of background legal and ethical questions.

[Truthoverpower]

Two things I never ever want as regards motor vehicles

1- An electric car

2- A self driving vehicle

Maybe I’m just an old dinosaur like my kids call me

but trust myself and I like the internal combustion engine

I can think of at least seven or eight times where my lightning quick reactions saved my own life and/or my family and I have a high amount of doubt did some computer would’ve been able to figure out how I got out of that situation

Furthermore there’s things like driving in the snow

Is a self driving car going to know how to react to black ice and driving in the snow?

It’s symptomatic of our society in general

The more you let technology take over your life - the less you’re going to be in control of your own life and your own destiny

[Steely Tom]

Saw this on Quora the other day:

Ok, now the biggest ones. Gonna stretch “big data” a bit but — the current investment wave in AI startups is going to have a really hard landing. Turns out that a lot of “AI startups” are just… using cheap labor behind an API:

The company claims its AI tools are “human-assisted,” and that it provides a service that will help a customer make more than 80 percent of a mobile app from scratch in about an hour, according to claims Engineer.ai founder Sachin Dev Duggal, who also says his other title is “Chief Wizard,” made onstage at a conference last year. However, the WSJ reports that Engineer.ai does not use AI to assemble the code, and instead uses human engineers in India and elsewhere to put together the app.

This report (link at source) suggests that 40% of “AI startups” in Europe actually use… no AI whatsoever:

“In 40 percent of cases we could find no mention of evidence of AI,” MMC head of research David Kelnar, who compiled the report, told Forbes. Kelnar says that this means “companies that people assume and think are AI companies are probably not.”

Tons of “AI-first” startups have raised millions upon millions of dollars using this untried-and-untrue business plan:

• Raise money
• Spend money on interns who pretend to be an AI
• Wait for AI to be invented
• Profit

AI is going to come. But it’s going to come from research labs at Google / Deepmind or Baidu. Or maybe even some MIT research lab. But it’s not going to come from three dudes fresh out of Y Combinator, who split their time between fundraising, talking about AI, and fundraising again because they spent all their money on interns who get paid to pretend to be AIs.

But eh, I’m not going to cry for burnt VC capital. VCs should have known better, and sunk their money into hard, traditional research instead. Like blood testing. Can’t go wrong there.

Here's a link to the page this material was on: Who are some of the largest big-data frauds out there right now?

[exDemMom]

I am not certain why people would want self-driving vehicles. Even if the technology could be perfected, what is the appeal of sitting in a vehicle staring out the window, when you could be actively engaged driving it? That would make car trips just about as unappealing as airplane trips, with the caveat that airplanes (at least for me) are unlikely to cause motion sickness if I do anything other than stare out the window.