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Cruise has started aggressively scaling its fleet of driverless cars, that are currently taxiing people without a human driver.. I'm not sure if its some weird
by gmadsen 4y ago
Cruise has started aggressively scaling its fleet of driverless cars, that are currently taxiing people without a human driver..
I'm not sure if its some weird human psychology thing going on, but the amount of posts and emotional responses claiming that the current advances in AI are worthless is kind of crazy. AI is without a doubt going to change society, and I suppose that is scary, but we are only at the beginning.
- yowlingcat 4y agoWhy not put your money where your mouth is and start or invest in a company selling insurance to Cruise? I would personally feel reluctant to do so, because I think insuring the tail risk of a company like Cruise or really even Tesla (pertaining to FSD) is a fool's errand and not a positive ROI proposition. And I don't mean now, I mean until proven otherwise. There is no guarantee or even really proof points that the model AI works around even does a good enough job to account for edge case scenarios that account for most of the tail risk. If that is not the case, then the entire hypothesis around AI (which is that it is structurally more efficient than alternatives) really falls apart, doesn't it?
- JohnFen 4y agoI think that what you're seeing with people claiming the advances are worthless (which most people aren't) is really just a reaction to the equally crazy claims being made about the advances made by other people overhyping the advances. A sort of social counterbalance. As always, the truth is likely to be somewhere in the middle.
- boh 4y agoI don't know why a company that loses billions of dollars a year and is known for bizarre driving patterns is an example of AI success. Confidence in AI is a product of faith, a lack of confidence is a product of evidence.