Yes, and that is what is so troubling about this. It is incapable of knowing the difference between an inanimate object and a human being. There's nobody inside the box to even care that something just happened. That's why we need actual "artificial intelligence" and not just this "pseudo-intelligence" they're pushing on us. Sadly there's no telling if or when we'll ever be able to create actual 'AI', but it's clear enough to me that this ain't it.
The word I think you're looking for is 'intuition', and these machines, aside from having no actual cognitive ability and no actual awareness, are completely and totally incapable of anything even resembling 'intuition'.
15 pedestrians are killed every day by human drivers in the US alone.
So what? We're not talking about 'human drivers' we're talking about your Savoir the Self Driving Car that's supposed to be so goddamned wonderful, and it just killed a human being. That's what's on trial here. I don't give a flying fuck about how many people are killed by human operated cars every day. You fanbois keep trotting out how fucking safe SDCs are supposed to be, yet here's a case where with all the hundreds of millions of dollars invested in developing them, all the media hype, all the cheerleading by fanbois like you, touting how much SAFER it's going to be, yet right out of the gate here's someone dead. Your SDCs don't have real AI, they're 'pseudo-intelligent' at best, the approach to this is all wrong, the technology is being RUSHED and PUSHED on us, and this is the predictable result: someone is dead because of it. Won't be the last person dead because of it, either. I just wonder how many people are going to have to die before someone in authority says "enough is enough" and puts a stop to it.
Will SDCs someday be a helpful tool for humans? Maybe. But we need actual Artificial Intelligence, not the 'pseudo-intelligence' they keep trotting out and CALLING "AI". It needs to be able to actually think, like we do and be aware like we are. That day is not today.
"Prognostication". And the answer to your question, essentially, is "zero". These pseudo-intelligent machines have no consciousness, no ability to actually 'think', and don't know the difference between a living being and an inanimate object -- or the significance of a living being.
Sure it does. It supposedly is watching in all directions all the time and supposedly has a reaction time better than a human. But there is no 'mind' in there; it's a 'pseudo-intelligence', it can't think, it doesn't know the difference between a living being and an inanimate object -- because it has no capacity to think.
What a coincidence that it just happens to be a SDC that just happens to kill a pedestrian! What are the odds of that happening?
Were there any tire marks indicating the car tried to swerve or brake to even try to miss the pedestrian? Or did it just roll right over her like she wasn't even there?
A human driver, valuing the life of a fellow human being (or any other living creature for that matter) would at least try to not hit them, even if that meant swerving into a stationary object (parked car, lamppost, etc) or having to brake so hard they were struck from behind by another vehicle. Did any of these things happen? Or did it just digitally shrug and keep going? The answer to these questions matters greatly. These so-called 'self driving cars', with their 'pseudo-intelligence' (I will not use the term 'artificial intelligence' because it is not accurate, there is no 'intelligence' in there) are, supposedly, watching in all directions all the time and supposedly has a reaction time better than a human driver; sure doesn't look like it from here.
Big deal. Don't modern GPUs have thousands of processor cores? For that matter, aren't there microcontrollers that have been on the market for years now that are a complete SoC, with peripherals like ethernet, wifi, and bluetooth?
Oh, no. I'd still be working, and so would you. So we could get 95% of our income taxed, to pay the freeloaders. Meanwhile The Rich will weasel out of of paying anything. So will corporations. So once again The Poor will be paying to support The Poor, and we'll all be told to be grateful for it. UBI WILL NOT WORK!
What the actual fuck makes you think the people you're referring to aren't going to find some handy way to weasel out of handing over their wealth? IT WILL NOT WORK!
I'm a born-and-raised American citizen, was not Republican OR Democrat in November 2016, and I didn't want EITHER ONE OF THEM; what does that make me, you drunk sonofabitch?
No, if you are for UBI, you are bad at math and also can't see past the end of your own nose. Seriously: Do the math for 300,000,000 people. It would bankrupt the country in ONE YEAR. Also, I'm convinced that crime and other social problems would get worse, not better.
Note I didn't say they'd get away with that shit, but that is what they'd like to see happen. We have extremists in our midst who are not Muslim; believe it.
So far as the ACA being repealed: they can and are chipping away at it. De-funding it is all it'll take, or an EO to the IRS to not enforce the Individual Mandate, and it all falls apart.
That isn't just Trump, it's Pence and all the other Dominionists. If you have a 'pre-existing medical condition', then obviously you haven't lived your life according to God's Word, and he's punishing you, therefore you don't deserve the help of good Christian organizations; after all why should they defy God's Judgement of you?:p
Eating too much. Eating garbage food (mainly: too much sugar, too much carbohydrate overall, too much 'bad' fats, not enough 'good' fats, not enough whole vegetables and fruits). Not enough (quality) sleep. Not enough exercise (for most people, it seems: no exercise whatsoever). Smoking (including, more recently, vaping). In other words: poor lifestyle choices, and all the things we've all been told for decade upon decade, falling on apparently deaf ears, because nobody wants to actually change anything, and there's always excuses why not.</uncomfortable_truth>
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Yes, and that is what is so troubling about this. It is incapable of knowing the difference between an inanimate object and a human being. There's nobody inside the box to even care that something just happened. That's why we need actual "artificial intelligence" and not just this "pseudo-intelligence" they're pushing on us. Sadly there's no telling if or when we'll ever be able to create actual 'AI', but it's clear enough to me that this ain't it.
The word I think you're looking for is 'intuition', and these machines, aside from having no actual cognitive ability and no actual awareness, are completely and totally incapable of anything even resembling 'intuition'.
15 pedestrians are killed every day by human drivers in the US alone.
So what? We're not talking about 'human drivers' we're talking about your Savoir the Self Driving Car that's supposed to be so goddamned wonderful, and it just killed a human being. That's what's on trial here. I don't give a flying fuck about how many people are killed by human operated cars every day. You fanbois keep trotting out how fucking safe SDCs are supposed to be, yet here's a case where with all the hundreds of millions of dollars invested in developing them, all the media hype, all the cheerleading by fanbois like you, touting how much SAFER it's going to be, yet right out of the gate here's someone dead. Your SDCs don't have real AI, they're 'pseudo-intelligent' at best, the approach to this is all wrong, the technology is being RUSHED and PUSHED on us, and this is the predictable result: someone is dead because of it. Won't be the last person dead because of it, either. I just wonder how many people are going to have to die before someone in authority says "enough is enough" and puts a stop to it.
Will SDCs someday be a helpful tool for humans? Maybe. But we need actual Artificial Intelligence, not the 'pseudo-intelligence' they keep trotting out and CALLING "AI". It needs to be able to actually think, like we do and be aware like we are. That day is not today.
How much pronostication does AI do?
"Prognostication". And the answer to your question, essentially, is "zero". These pseudo-intelligent machines have no consciousness, no ability to actually 'think', and don't know the difference between a living being and an inanimate object -- or the significance of a living being.
Sure it does. It supposedly is watching in all directions all the time and supposedly has a reaction time better than a human. But there is no 'mind' in there; it's a 'pseudo-intelligence', it can't think, it doesn't know the difference between a living being and an inanimate object -- because it has no capacity to think.
What a coincidence that it just happens to be a SDC that just happens to kill a pedestrian! What are the odds of that happening?
Were there any tire marks indicating the car tried to swerve or brake to even try to miss the pedestrian? Or did it just roll right over her like she wasn't even there?
A human driver, valuing the life of a fellow human being (or any other living creature for that matter) would at least try to not hit them, even if that meant swerving into a stationary object (parked car, lamppost, etc) or having to brake so hard they were struck from behind by another vehicle. Did any of these things happen? Or did it just digitally shrug and keep going? The answer to these questions matters greatly. These so-called 'self driving cars', with their 'pseudo-intelligence' (I will not use the term 'artificial intelligence' because it is not accurate, there is no 'intelligence' in there) are, supposedly, watching in all directions all the time and supposedly has a reaction time better than a human driver; sure doesn't look like it from here.
What we have currently is incorrectly named "AI"; Neal Stephenson has a better term for it: "pseudo-intelligence".
You forgot to end your comment with "</sarcasm>"
..will it run Crysis?
Big deal. Don't modern GPUs have thousands of processor cores? For that matter, aren't there microcontrollers that have been on the market for years now that are a complete SoC, with peripherals like ethernet, wifi, and bluetooth?
Go eat your soy, wingnut.
When 95% of the jobs are gone
You're a complete wingnut. You must be upset over the aluminum tarriff, it'll make your hats so much more expensive for you.
Oh, no. I'd still be working, and so would you. So we could get 95% of our income taxed, to pay the freeloaders. Meanwhile The Rich will weasel out of of paying anything. So will corporations. So once again The Poor will be paying to support The Poor, and we'll all be told to be grateful for it. UBI WILL NOT WORK!
Screw you.
What the actual fuck makes you think the people you're referring to aren't going to find some handy way to weasel out of handing over their wealth? IT WILL NOT WORK!
I'm a born-and-raised American citizen, was not Republican OR Democrat in November 2016, and I didn't want EITHER ONE OF THEM; what does that make me, you drunk sonofabitch?
No, if you are for UBI, you are bad at math and also can't see past the end of your own nose. Seriously: Do the math for 300,000,000 people. It would bankrupt the country in ONE YEAR. Also, I'm convinced that crime and other social problems would get worse, not better.
Giving people handouts never fixes anything, it just makes things worse, fix the goddamned economy so people can earn a decent living instead!
WILL.
NOT.
WORK.
That would require these machines to be capable of actual cognition, which they absolutely are not. They're pseudo-intelligence, not actual 'AI'.
Note I didn't say they'd get away with that shit, but that is what they'd like to see happen. We have extremists in our midst who are not Muslim; believe it.
So far as the ACA being repealed: they can and are chipping away at it. De-funding it is all it'll take, or an EO to the IRS to not enforce the Individual Mandate, and it all falls apart.
Hear, hear.
"Any other medical care" has your data protected by federal law, data collected by some program like this has no such protections.
That isn't just Trump, it's Pence and all the other Dominionists. If you have a 'pre-existing medical condition', then obviously you haven't lived your life according to God's Word, and he's punishing you, therefore you don't deserve the help of good Christian organizations; after all why should they defy God's Judgement of you? :p
Eating too much. Eating garbage food (mainly: too much sugar, too much carbohydrate overall, too much 'bad' fats, not enough 'good' fats, not enough whole vegetables and fruits). Not enough (quality) sleep. Not enough exercise (for most people, it seems: no exercise whatsoever). Smoking (including, more recently, vaping). In other words: poor lifestyle choices, and all the things we've all been told for decade upon decade, falling on apparently deaf ears, because nobody wants to actually change anything, and there's always excuses why not.</uncomfortable_truth>
"bread and circuses"