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I lost all respect to Gary Marcus when he in 2018 claimed that autonomous driving is decades away. Oh wait. I lost all respect to those hype-men who claimed it
by nabla9 3y ago
I lost all respect to Gary Marcus when he in 2018 claimed that autonomous driving is decades away.
Oh wait. I lost all respect to those hype-men who claimed it's just around the corner.
Before transformers, people claimed that you just need bigger neural network, not something new. It did not work.
Then came transformers, the new thing can again scale up better than previous era. Transformers have obvious limit: the computational complexity of self-attention module scales quadratically with the sequence length. We are trying to get partial fix with sparcity and linear tranformers and other techniques, but it gets harder at every turn.
We make progress, but "just scaling" is not working.
- Anotheroneagain 3y agoThere are robotaxis being tested in the west coast US and Wuhan, China.
- prasoonds 3y agoI’m not sure if I’m parsing your sentence right but surely you can’t be implying that autonomous driving isn’t possible or that it is some undermined time away? You can come down to SF and take a waymo today. It works great.
- mjburgess 3y agoNo one doubted you could take precise area scans of a city and create motorised robots on fixed routes.
- School-Cotton 3y agoActually, a lot of people doubted that you could ever do what Waymo is doing today in SF (and Phoenix, and probably other places).
- nabla9 3y agoNot anyone important.
- nabla9 3y agoThe context was SAE level 5 (Full Driving Automation) Level 5 vehicles do not require human attention―the “dynamic driving task” is eliminated. Level 5 cars won’t even have steering wheels or acceleration/braking pedals. They will be free from geofencing, able to go anywhere and do anything that an experienced human driver can do.