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You can't ever fully stop wilful abuse of technology by end users (humans keep looking down at their smartphones) but you can mitigate the problem of complacenc

You can't ever fully stop wilful abuse of technology by end users (humans keep looking down at their smartphones) but you can mitigate the problem of complacency with increasingly better human monitoring. IMHO Tesla should be restricting FSD to vehicles where the car can visually monitor the driver's attention. Predictions of the future have always been poor, but ML/AI has thoroughly fucked up any prior intuitions we had around the rate of advancement. So many things progressing more rapidly than we thought possible, while others being an endless slog of local maxima after local maxima.

ghaff 3y ago
The local maxima associated with machine learning/deep learning (plus hardware acceleration) led a lot of people--even before generative AI--caused a lot of people to assume broader tasks couldn't be that hard. Especially given early successes that seemed pretty impressive. At one level, the state of self-driving cars is pretty impressive. On the other hand, it's nowhere ready to take little Sally to soccer practice by itself which is what a lot of people really wanted. At this point, even some relative skeptics like Rodney Brooks are probably looking overly optimistic in terms of timelines. I suspect that current approaches only take us so far and some other things from cognitive science and so forth will need to be pulled in.