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Well, my optical sensors(i.e. eyes) provide me with enough information to discriminate a cat from a bag, so I suppose with enough processing we should be able t
by 01100011 8y ago
Well, my optical sensors(i.e. eyes) provide me with enough information to discriminate a cat from a bag, so I suppose with enough processing we should be able to do the same with a control system. Cars have an added advantage that their vision systems could work in lower light and non-optical wavelengths. I don't see any fundamental issues with getting self-driving cars working. It may not happen in 5 years, but it will happen.
- thanatropism 8y agoYes, but your machine learning algos are much much better.
- eddieplan9 8y agoAn intelligence animal being able to do something != "with enough processing we should be able to do the same with a control system".
- ddoolin 8y agoWhy not?
- pretendscholar 8y agoOne possible answer would be that we aren't intelligent enough to create such systems. I don't think that's true but its a possibility.
- majewsky 8y ago> we aren't intelligent enough to create such systems Evolution suggests that you can, in fact, create systems that are more intelligent than what came before them.
- mattnewport 8y agoEvolution achieves that in part by a callous disregard for individual lives. The intelligences that evolution has produced are built on an unimaginable pile of corpses. Even Uber doesn't seem quite as willing as mother nature to spend quite so many lives to achieve incremental improvements.
- xyhopguy 8y agoThe tough part about this line of reasoning is you can't tease apart the discriminatory power of human knowledge from human vision. How good does our expert system need to be? How good do our sensors need to be? I'm not so sure this is an easy to question to resolve
- wpietri 8y agoExactly. Children have decent hand-eye coordination as toddlers. By 3 or 4, they can drive toy cars; by 5 they're riding bikes. But it takes them another decade or more to have the knowledge and judgment needed to drive a car in traffic. And even then they're not great; teens have a crash rate something like 3x other drivers.
- thereisnospork 8y agoBecause of immaturity, not cognitive or physical capability. Kids start racing go karts as young as five - and that's a far more difficult, requiring fast reflexes, precise car control, and situational awareness. It's a far more challenging task than an average commute.
- chemicalnovae 8y agoNot really, racing carts is primarily about the ability to control the thing under very well defined conditions (read: much better than your average 3 lane highway with hundreds of other road users) with other road users with the exact same end goal.