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> AI is already as good as human drivers But the AI drives slowly and gets confused easily. Regular drivers routinely have to go around self-driving cars. Not

> AI is already as good as human drivers But the AI drives slowly and gets confused easily. Regular drivers routinely have to go around self-driving cars. Not to say they won't improve, but it seems like current AI is assistive to the point where it might be harmful when drivers rely on it in speeds and situations where they shouldn't. I'm sure it will keep improving, but I feel like this is one of those situations where the amount of data and training required, and the amount of iteration on the software required to handle edge cases is not impossible but is exceptionally difficult.

ajross 5y ago
> But the AI drives slowly and gets confused easily. Probably better to say that the AI drives slower than you would and gets confused differently. Real drivers die every day to terrible mistakes that look obvious in hindsight. Most of them probably thought AI was terrible too. The bar here is much lower than you think it is, and frankly existing automation has already crossed it.
visarga 5y ago
> the amount of iteration on the software required to handle edge cases is not impossible but is exceptionally difficult. If you want to fix this one exception (false positive) you will introduce unwanted false negatives. That's how precision and recall work, there's a trade-off. So I am not sure it's useful to fix it, how many times does this happen? Will fixing it introduce more frequent bugs?