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Waymo has never claimed completely general AI. Indeed, no serious researcher or company claims such a thing. The term "AI" has gained currency in the last few y
by joe_the_user 5y ago
Waymo has never claimed completely general AI. Indeed, no serious researcher or company claims such a thing. The term "AI" has gained currency in the last few years but it's just marketing or shorthand for machine learn usually based on deep neural networks.
Intelligent route planning to compensate for the deficits of our current perception tech stack is a good thing and allows greater reliability.
This is what Waymo is doing and has done from the start. But this approach itself has significant limitations as the video shows. You have to automate the route planning process also, remember.
- machinelearning 5y agoIn this context it is fairly clear what “AI” is referring to and it’s not used in the marketing sense. Also note that the AV system used by waymo is not only neural network based. There are many components that work together to create autonomy. In this context “AI” refers to the entirety of the autonomy stack. It has limitations but there is no evidence of there being a better alternative. Automating the route planning process is easier than behavior planning, path planning or perception.