Yes, but can it drive a motor home?

[Jim]

The world we live in, and the opportunities that are coming our way.

 

[Kevin D Pem]

You're question is can it drive a motorhome???

 

[Jim]

You're question is can it drive a motorhome???

Yes, but I wasn't serious Kevin. I know, as do you, that if it can't, it's only a matter of time before it will. And when it's all over and done, it'll do a better job that most of us.

 

[Boat Bum]

but would it brake for wildlife?

 

[Rollin Ollen]

but would it brake for wildlife?

If, or when, this becomes possible, I would expect the machine to have better sensory perception (visual and audio ) than a human plus quicker reaction times. As for being able to recognize an animal or object, Google Lens has come a long way.

 

[Boat Bum]

How would it handle a morality decision whether to hit a squirrel or swerve and potentially create a more fatal situation? So many nuances.

 

[redbaron]

Mine is on the way---Ill let you know how well it can drive ---Ooops misread the price--kids are still cheaper, since I already have them.

 

[Rollin Ollen]

How would it handle a morality decision whether to hit a squirrel or swerve and potentially create a more fatal situation? So many nuances.

I guess that would depend on how it was programmed. If I were the programmer, then it would be squirrel squished as my wife says I have no compassion. If it were she, then I'm afraid there probably would be no such thing as a bug spattered windshield.

 

[fishslayer]

Sorry, not putting our lives in the hands of AI that has a disclaimer on accuracy

 

[Jim]

I will soon be opening an "options" or "add on" list of goodies that you can purchase for your robot. But first, I guess it's fair to say that this thing does has some issues that concern me.

• It moves like it’s constantly trying not to fart.
• The black knit suit makes it look like a ninja who got hired by Best Buy.
• Every scene screams: “This robot absolutely knows your Wi-Fi password.”
• It folds laundry with the confidence of a teenager being watched by his mother.
• The smile-less face somehow says, “I have seen your browser history, Jim.”

But that said, please bookmark this page for interesting and possibly useful upgrades.

Jim

 

[Kevin D Pem]

I was just thinking! Why do want a robot to drive your MH? talk Elon into selling that option to newmar.

 

[Rollin Ollen]

I was just thinking! Why do want a robot to drive your MH? talk Elon into selling that option to newmar.

I can honestly say that I'm not looking forward to this type of automation. I don't care how smart they might get but they are still subject to mechanical/electrical failure. I know when I'm not feeling well enough to drive or operate machinery. I can't see A I developing these senses.

 

[Holdmybeer]

What made the news some months back was an autonomously driven taxi in a school zone striking a child who had darted out from between parked cars onto the roadway. What didn't make the news was that the vehicles sensors had detected the child and had immediately braked only knocking the child down. What else didn't make the news was that a human driver's reaction time would have been exponentially slower, likely seriously injuring the child or worse. These autonomous systems aren't perfect but the reason they're advancing exponentially is they don't make the same mistake twice. When they do make a mistake the error and the corrective action/update ( self-learning) occurs in every model. Although in the case of the taxi striking the child it wasn't a mistake, it was a demonstration of why autonomously driven vehicles are safer than human drivers.
When Alpha Go beat the worlds best human Go players and as Alpha Fold solved the protein folding puzzle they were both only achieved when the AI was allowed to self learn. In the Alpha Go scenario the model was cut loose to play itself, processing trillions of possible moves and counter moves impossible for any human to match.
However, the scary food for thought could be if you provide AI the means for example to solve global warming or end all wars or stop human trafficking or solve the mass shooting epidemic in America, Occam's Razor would say just remove the lowest common denominator.

 

[Underboss]

Will it get road rage?

 

[fishslayer]

And when it decides the solution is to get rid of us....did you not see SKYNET in Terminator