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Computers can never be as good as a human at recognising and reacting to risk in our almost infinitely variable streets....They can't be brilliant at reading the road and conditions, anticipating what might happen, recognising developing hazards and all the rest of it.
Says you. Seriously, why not? Every time this sort of issue comes up with regard to AI, it turns out that there isn't some mystical human-only power that computers are metaphysically incapable of reproducing, rather it's just that we haven't yet properly framed the problem and described the capability that is required to respond to it.
The idea that humans are absolutely optimised for driving is belied by the number of accidents and injuries caused by drivers despite our having largely segregated motor vehicels from squishy pedestrians. Part of robots advantage is that they don't have to be "creative" about driving because they adhere to road laws, which massively reduces the degree to which they have to respond to hazardous situations and the speed with which they have to do it.
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Part of robots advantage is that they don't have to be "creative" about driving because they adhere to road laws, which massively reduces the degree to which they have to respond to hazardous situations and the speed with which they have to do it.
Nah nobody would use them unless they drove at the limit, all the time, like a target, as in the tragic case above (38mph in a 35mph zone).
Yeah OK legislation
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Well, maybe not never, but...
Over the past few years, scientists, in a variety of ways, have tried to get a super computer to mimic the complexity and raw processing power of the human brain. According to biologists, the human brain has approximately 90 billion nerve cells which are linked together by, quite literally, trillions of connections called synapses. Taken together, this system of elaborate connections within the brain provides “hundreds of trillions of different pathways that brain signals travel through.”
In an effort to mimic this digitally, scientists a few years ago needed more than 82,000 processors running on one of the world’s fastest supercomputers to mimic just 1 second of a normal human’s brain activity.
More recently, a research study found that the human brain can hold 10 times as much information as previously thought. All told, scientists now believe that the capacity of the human brain is about a petabyte.
source: http://bgr.com/2016/02/27/power-of-the-human-brain-vs-super-computer/
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I can't see how they can do this. I don't buy the line that they will reduce the risk.
Computers can never be as good as a human at recognising and reacting to risk in our almost infinitely variable streets. Robots only work in strictly controlled environments and they are only as good as their programming and processing and can only work to the scenarios they have. They are shit at pattern recognition, language ability, abstraction, creative thought, 3d processing, anticipation, imagination and so many of the other thought processes that make up the main part of driving safely.
Robots are brilliant at making the car work, but that's only 10% of driving. They can't be brilliant at reading the road and conditions, anticipating what might happen, recognising developing hazards and all the rest of it. If driverless cars are to become a safe everyday reality it will have to be on strictly controlled roads away from pedestrians, cyclists, etc. That basically means banning cycling on the road, introducing jaywalking laws, etc.