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Are humans animals?

• ModernMech 5y ago
  When we're talking about the brain and its processing, planning, and decision-making abilities exhibited during driving, no. We are distinct from animals. We have the technology to build robots that mimic the capabilities of animals, from birds to fish to snakes, and now approaching dogs. Trying to do what humans do while driving with binocular cameras is far beyond our capabilities. Like I said, if you want to drive with just binocular cameras like a human, you'll need a human-level AI brain to go with it, and that's not coming any time soon. edit: I don't understand how this is a controversial statement...
  • shkkmo 5y ago
    Animals do just fine with more complex navigation challenges than driving a car. While we can 'mimic' various animal capabilities, I don't believe we are anywhere close to AGI with either a dog's level of intelligence, motor control or sensory integration.
    • ModernMech 5y ago
      > Animals do just fine with more complex navigation challenges than driving a car. Do you have any scenarios in mind? Driving is not only a navigation challenge, but a social challenge as well. Have you ever tried to navigate a 4 way stop when multiple cars get there at the same time?
      • shkkmo 5y ago
        The theory of mind problems involved in driving are huge and are primarily why I don't think you could teach an non-human animal to drive on streets / in traffic. But depth perception isn't really involved there so those theory of mind issues don't really have any bearing on the need for lidar for self driving cars. Clearly creating world models of sufficient accuracy for driving scale navigation challenges is possible (but potentially pretty hard) with just vision data.
      • tim333 5y ago
        Have you imagined building a birds nest using a helicopter or similar flying machine? Seems to me trickier than driving a car.