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I stumbled on the most hilarious cross-walk encounter between one of the these delivery bots and a Waymo in downtown phoenix.. it seems that neither was program
by seemaze 5mo ago
I stumbled on the most hilarious cross-walk encounter between one of the these delivery bots and a Waymo in downtown phoenix.. it seems that neither was programmed (probably rightfully so) to take the initiative in the situation, so what ensued was a painfully drawn out exchange of agentic deference.
- thaumasiotes 5mo agoInterestingly, the solution to this problem in humans is that all humans have different individual aggressiveness levels. That works pretty well, but I would guess it won't be one of the first things that robot fleet operators try.
- Marsymars 5mo agoMakes me think of https://www.thecut.com/2015/01/manslamming-manspreading-microaggressions.html https://www.thecut.com/2015/01/manslamming-manspreading-micr...
- globular-toast 5mo agoThe standard way to do it with machines is to use a bit of randomisation along with exponential backoff. It's been used for collision avoidance in network protocols for a long time.
- tanseydavid 5mo agoI'm vibe coding a "rock-paper-scissors" protocol for robots to be able to negotiate situations just such as this.
- xnx 5mo agoDelivery robots aren't programmed. They're all remotely controlled in real-time AFAIK.