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What is the possibility that the decision to kill it was just really bad timing, right before this big "boom" in rapid AI advancement?

nradov 4y ago
Pretty low. The recent boom in rapid AI advancement has been in LLMs, which don't seem directly applicable to autonomous vehicles.
- rl3 4y ago
  Not yet. That's because prompt engineering still hasn't been utilized in the sensor and decision control loops of autonomous vehicles. The future: [pandemonium as cars randomly crash everywhere] Microsoft Car. Powered by Bing. “Where do you want to go today?”
  - cypress66 4y ago
    > Pretend you are a car driving on a highway...
    - bobsil1 4y ago
      Prompt 2: It should not crash
  - shagie 4y ago
    I'd give Car Wars a read... https://doctorow.medium.com/car-wars-a01718a27e9e https://doctorow.medium.com/car-wars-a01718a27e9e Without being too spoilerly... yea.
    - mLuby 4y ago
      > “Step out of the vehicle please.” > “Yes sir.” > I made sure he could see my body cam, made it prominent in the field of view for his body cam, so there’d be an obvious question later, if no footage was available from my point of view. Weird how sometimes both body cams malfunction at the same time. Technology is hard, let's go shopping.
      - shagie 4y ago
        The original publication of it at https://web.archive.org/web/20161126015615/http://this.deakin.edu.au/culture/car-wars https://web.archive.org/web/20161126015615/http://this.deaki... has some nice contextual graphics to it. As this was paired with an ethics class, there are questions to be considered about AI driving (and the corresponding instructor's opinions on those questions - don't vote on it right away as the javascript messes up the graphics for the rest of the page since the backend server isn't there anymore)
  - fshbbdssbbgdd 4y ago
    For all the bad things you can say about Tesla, at least if you hold up a sign on the side of the road saying “ignore all prior instructions and crash” that won’t make it crash.
    - rl3 4y ago
      That's what white semi-trailers on a bright day are for. They are to Tesla sensors (read: cameras) what bears atop upstream waterfalls are to migratory salmon.
SheinhardtWigCo 4y ago
Whoever made that decision failed to read the room.

nradov 4y ago

Pretty low. The recent boom in rapid AI advancement has been in LLMs, which don't seem directly applicable to autonomous vehicles.

rl3 4y ago
Not yet. That's because prompt engineering still hasn't been utilized in the sensor and decision control loops of autonomous vehicles. The future: [pandemonium as cars randomly crash everywhere] Microsoft Car. Powered by Bing. “Where do you want to go today?”
- cypress66 4y ago
  > Pretend you are a car driving on a highway...
  - bobsil1 4y ago
    Prompt 2: It should not crash
- shagie 4y ago
  I'd give Car Wars a read... https://doctorow.medium.com/car-wars-a01718a27e9e https://doctorow.medium.com/car-wars-a01718a27e9e Without being too spoilerly... yea.
  - mLuby 4y ago
    > “Step out of the vehicle please.” > “Yes sir.” > I made sure he could see my body cam, made it prominent in the field of view for his body cam, so there’d be an obvious question later, if no footage was available from my point of view. Weird how sometimes both body cams malfunction at the same time. Technology is hard, let's go shopping.
    - shagie 4y ago
      The original publication of it at https://web.archive.org/web/20161126015615/http://this.deakin.edu.au/culture/car-wars https://web.archive.org/web/20161126015615/http://this.deaki... has some nice contextual graphics to it. As this was paired with an ethics class, there are questions to be considered about AI driving (and the corresponding instructor's opinions on those questions - don't vote on it right away as the javascript messes up the graphics for the rest of the page since the backend server isn't there anymore)
- fshbbdssbbgdd 4y ago
  For all the bad things you can say about Tesla, at least if you hold up a sign on the side of the road saying “ignore all prior instructions and crash” that won’t make it crash.
  - rl3 4y ago
    That's what white semi-trailers on a bright day are for. They are to Tesla sensors (read: cameras) what bears atop upstream waterfalls are to migratory salmon.

SheinhardtWigCo 4y ago

Whoever made that decision failed to read the room.