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I get that we have to be open with tech. After all most tech seemed "impossible" "unrealistic" and "unfeasible" even a couple of years before they go mainstream

I get that we have to be open with tech. After all most tech seemed "impossible" "unrealistic" and "unfeasible" even a couple of years before they go mainstream. But you have touched some use cases that are more frequent than most people think. London is a great example. My hometown Athens is much more closer to London as far as driving is concerned as opposed to LA or NY. I guess many other metropolis also. How will AI brand A communicate with AI brand B about life critical decisions ? Hey we can either both crash to each other or kill that kid on the pavement. ( just an example , I don't want to go to the morality of the situation) I assume there is going to be a "standard " . But have a look at your everyday tech. Standards are not easy. There are still WiFi routers/repeaters that cannot talk to each other nicely, just to give an example. Usually in life critical systems you don't have interoperability issues because there is no interoperability. Huge fail-safe systems from a single vendor.

walrus1066 10y ago
I can see communication with other autonomous cars happening, but with humans is another question altogether. We enter the realms of 'general ai' here, which is way out of scope of our ML tools.
- ThomPete 10y ago
  Is that really true though? You don't use your general AI to see someone extending their hand in traffic ex. General AI is the ability to both drive car, score a girl, cook food, clean your room etc. I think you would be surprised how little general AI have to do with this.
  - walrus1066 10y ago
    Sure, not Turing test level AI, but the car needs not to just correctly interpret what the other human driver is communicating, it too needs to communicate back, sometimes assertively. Sometimes you need to actually talk to the other driver. Anecdote: I was driving down a long, narrow country road, lots of turns, space only for 1 car, land rover coming in opposite direction, and another car behind me. We had to verbally negotiate who reverses back 50m to let the others go past. I cannot think how an ML algo could resolve this situation, even if it could, how would it communicate it's intentions to the humans, when flashing your lights isn't enough?

walrus1066 10y ago

I can see communication with other autonomous cars happening, but with humans is another question altogether. We enter the realms of 'general ai' here, which is way out of scope of our ML tools.

ThomPete 10y ago
Is that really true though? You don't use your general AI to see someone extending their hand in traffic ex. General AI is the ability to both drive car, score a girl, cook food, clean your room etc. I think you would be surprised how little general AI have to do with this.
- walrus1066 10y ago
  Sure, not Turing test level AI, but the car needs not to just correctly interpret what the other human driver is communicating, it too needs to communicate back, sometimes assertively. Sometimes you need to actually talk to the other driver. Anecdote: I was driving down a long, narrow country road, lots of turns, space only for 1 car, land rover coming in opposite direction, and another car behind me. We had to verbally negotiate who reverses back 50m to let the others go past. I cannot think how an ML algo could resolve this situation, even if it could, how would it communicate it's intentions to the humans, when flashing your lights isn't enough?