Comment on Waymo raises massive $16 billion round at $126 billion valuation, plans expansion to 20+ cities
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 days ago
They’re trying to seize the moment, after yet another Musk debacle with self-driving taxis/cars.
Yes, Waymos are probably a little better than whatever Musk did.
Very recently I saw an article where they experimented with the AIs that steer these things: it’s basically enough to hold a sign that tells it what to do, to tell it what to do.
It’s artificial alright but certainly not intelligent enough and shouldn’t have been let loose on the public for at least another ten years. Fuck.
I saw an article where they experimented with the AIs that steer these things: it’s basically enough to hold a sign that tells it what to do
So it is able to follow directions from traffic signs when it sees them…IDK, seems more intelligent than a significant portion of human drivers out there /s
So they’re basically following the early Elon Musk playbook: Look like the good guys, by being slightly less bad than your enemies.
I’d like to think society won’t fall for the same trick again.
Link to that experiment? It sounds a bit far fetched, I feel like they aren’t using something based on an LLM.
Chozo@fedia.io 1 day ago
Even with the recent struck child, Waymos are still light years ahead of human drivers in terms of safety. Honestly, the faster we can replace human drivers, the better. Almost all traffic collisions are caused by human error, remove that and the roads will be the safest they've been since horse-drawn carriages first entered the scene.
dustyData@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I can get you one better. There won’t be car accidents if there aren’t any cars. Car free cities, or walkable cities are preferable. We don’t need safer drivers, we need more public transport.
Apology for hitting kids is wild. An expansion of services will only raise frequency of accidents.