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What happened was that VCs and marketers took over the conversation and the researchers and engineers who were shouting from day 1 about how unrealistic all the
by paxys 3y ago
What happened was that VCs and marketers took over the conversation and the researchers and engineers who were shouting from day 1 about how unrealistic all the "self driving cars by 2020" claims were were simply ignored by the general public. Even today I'd wager that >50% of the people actually working on the tech don't think level 5 autonomy is reachable in our lifetime.
- SpicyLemonZest 3y agoBut what concretely do they mean when they think that? I haven't seen many people argue that some law of physics prohibits level 5 autonomy, or that there's some known plan which will take 100 years to execute. It seems to me that, when someone says level 5 autonomy isn't reachable in our lifetime, they're thinking something along the lines of "it's a really hard problem and I don't currently see a way to make progress".