Actually, a good point.. I didnt think he had any chance to win. My wallet is $400 lighter because of that (to many bets).

One of the greatest disappointments I will have is not being able to teach my son how to drive Manual Transmission. I dont own one, and dont know anyone that does anymore.. My previous car was a G35 6-Speed, which was a pain to find.. I gave up on my new car, and got a Automatic (First one I have owned since I learned…

I’ll take a read.. But my guess is it falls into the real of a Non-General AI. There are plenty of examples of narrow field AI’s out there (Siri, Alexa, Tesla, Deep Blue, AlphaGo, etc, etc..) but none that are General AI.

Thank you for such a poignant and well thought out response.

I understand how they work, exactly how they work. I was dumbing it down given we are not on technical blog. It doesnt change anything.

30 Successful years in the industry tells me different. How long have you been working in the Industry?

Yep, I did revise my statement a bit.. I’m 40+, so, my lifetime is different then everyone elses. Lets say 30-40 years. I dont believe you will see it in that time period.

46%, sure, but the other 90 million that didnt vote are just as culpable as the people who voted for him. Off topic, but I, like you, get pissed off at the same thing..

If a machine was doing that, it would actually be infinetly easier then making a Autonomous car.

Faster? No way.. slower, yes way. Like Fusion energy.. perpetually around the corner. 

Fair enough.. But he still represented a lot of Americans and what there view was/is. I think it’s repugnant, and hes a asshole, but 50% of the country doesnt agree with me.

Nope. Even if you threw a billion dollars at making a single car, as a one off, you still couldn’t do it. The technology doesn’t exist, and no one is building it (yet) because no one knows how.

Yep, good point.

Oh sure, if we are talking about Humans taking over when the car runs into a problem, thats not 40 years away. We could probably do that in the next 10 years. On the highway in even less time (Tesla is pretty close).

Was dumbing it down a bit - I know how they work.

No, we dont use a ‘If X then do Y’. We take into account a ton of variables before we make any decision, even if that is subconciously. Thats where reasoning and thought come in, something a machine cant do. When you drive, you are making a shit load of decisions each second as to what you are going to do (Accelerate,…

Sure, I can buy that.. If you build something like that, it can work. I havent seen anyone talking about doing that tho.. :)

What AI? The AI you are talking about is a General AI and doesnt exist yet, and no one is building one because no one knows how.

It was an example. A human being would never do something like that was my point, not because its against any rule sets, but because it doesn’t make any sense to do it. A computer (right now) has no concept of that. There are literally millions of examples that would be a computer into a quandary of what to do, and…

This is where the nuance comes in from being in the industry. The computers you had 40 years ago are no different then the computers you have today. Yes, the architecture has changed a bit, and chips have gotten faster, smaller, cheaper, etc.. but fundamentally computers still act exactly the way they did in the 70s.