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> "If you tell it to do nothing else, or if you lose communications with it, it's going to do the last thing you told it to do, which is the definition of auton
by upon_drumhead 3y ago
> "If you tell it to do nothing else, or if you lose communications with it, it's going to do the last thing you told it to do, which is the definition of autonomy. It has no direct human control."
That’s not at all what I thought autonomy means.
- chaps 3y agoIt makes more sense if you think about it as, "it's in the last state that you put it in, and from here its state is up to it.".
- Groxx 3y agoThis implies that a brick on a gas pedal is autonomous driving. It might be technically correct, but hardly true to the intent.
- chaps 3y agoThe article is about "semi-autonomous", not "autonomous" driving. And looking up the history of driving automation, where "semi-autonomous" was a car driving on a track -- yeah, sounds about right and fully within intent's limits.
- hengheng 3y agoYeah, I guess my automatic wrist watch has gotten autonomous.
- chaps 3y agoWords are weird, aren't they.
- wyldfire 3y agoI guess it depends on the complexity of "tell" and what meaning it could decode from the telling. If "deliver the cargo safely over there" meant that it could, in inclement weather, decide "safely" was impossible and then negotiate with ground control to land at a new airport, that's fairly autonomous.
- 0xffff2 3y agoI agree, and I'm a researcher in the field. "Autonomy" implies decision making in the absence of external control/input. To me, that's very nearly the opposite of the quote.
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- seanmcdirmid 3y agoDoes autonomy imply sentience? Because a trained hawk can act autonomously but isn’t going to do anything very interesting without instructions.