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A waymo self-driving car is not made of flesh and bones but I have yet to see a waymo self-driving car that performs better than a dog at: rescuing humans, dete

• ithkuil 5y ago
  my point was just a crude attempt to dispel the myth that flesh has anything to do with efficiency at some task. What matters is design, and the immense research powers that nature has through eons of natural selection does an impressive job and doing things for which it has been "trained for" (hence your example).
• klmadfejno 5y ago
  > rescuing humans Vague and undefined, mostly a hardware problem, not an intelligence problem > detecting cancers and disease AI is a strong tool for detecting many cancers, and in some areas of research, just using the same olfactory data as dogs: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245530 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... > shepherding Again, not so much an intelligence problem, but a hardware problem. Nonetheless https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/stress-test-australian-study-finds-herding-sheep-via-drone-better-for-their-welfare https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/stress-test-au... > protecting family from threats In terms of ability to recognize and classify a threat, AI is clearly superior here. Dogs have terrible false positive rates.