> That car driving itself is not one big AI brain. > Instead of a whole toolchain of specialized models, all connected with normal code — such as models for co

> That car driving itself is not one big AI brain. > Instead of a whole toolchain of specialized models, all connected with normal code — such as models for computer vision to find and identify objects, predictive decision-making, anticipating the actions of others, or natural language processing for understanding voice commands — all of these specialized models are combined with tons of just normal code and logic that creates the end result — a car that can drive itself. Or, as I like to say it: what we now call "AI" actually refers to the "dumb" part (which does not mean easy or simple!) of the system. When we speak of an intelligent human driver, we do not mean that they are able to differentiate between a stop sign and a pigeon, or understand when their partner asks them to "please stop by the bakery on the way home" -- we mean that they know what decision to take based on this data in order to have the best trip possible. That is, we refer to the part done with "tons of normal code", as the article puts it. Needless to say, I am not impressed by the predictions of "AI singularity" and whatever other nonsense AI evangelists try to make us believe.