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I wouldn't mind living in a world were all news stories are like this - "Something bad almost happened, but it didn't, because the algorithms took care of it".
by codeshaman 11y ago
I wouldn't mind living in a world were all news stories are like this - "Something bad almost happened, but it didn't, because the algorithms took care of it".
Back to the story, the article doesn't mention if the human drivers had to interfere to avoid collision. It would be quite pointless to have a self-driving car which you cannot trust and be always on the lookout to take over if it does something stupid.
- viraptor 11y agoAlgorithms preventing bad things? That was the whole premise of Minority Report, wasn't it?
- maxerickson 11y agoNo, Minority Report had psychics (the title comes from having 3 of them, so when one of them sees something different than the other 2, there is a "Minority Report").
- viraptor 11y agoIs 3 psychics really different than 3 algorithms? Safety critical software does get implemented sometimes in 2 different ways to cross-check sanity at runtime. Which does of course come up with issues like which side to trust and what to do if they disagree.
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