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I think his research area (SLAM) might blind him a bit to the engineering side of things. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping is great if it works, but for so
by Eridrus 9y ago
I think his research area (SLAM) might blind him a bit to the engineering side of things. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping is great if it works, but for something with high enough value... you can just map it from the start, and it makes your problem much easier. Which seems to be the approach people are taking.
- ghaff 9y agoMapping does make things easier and it arguably jump-started the current wave of autonomous vehicle work. But then you have to move beyond a precise map of how the world is supposed to be to how the world actually is including all the unpredictable behaviors of humans in the space. Having listened to Leonard speak, his skepticism seems to mostly be around how you deal with all the things like left hand turns in busy traffic, police waving people around an accident, etc. that happen on a daily basis.
- Eridrus 9y agoI think that for a large enough benefit we will adapt how we interact with these systems. Before automobiles it was normal for people to walk in the middle of the street, but we adapted (some would argue this was a bad thing ofc). I don't think it's a prerequisite for autonomous systems to be the same as humans, the benefit is just too large for us to wait.