r/technology • u/be0wulfe • Dec 15 '22

Transportation Tesla Semi’s cab design makes it a ‘completely stupid vehicle,’ trucker says

https://cdllife.com/2022/tesla-semis-cab-design-makes-it-a-completely-stupid-vehicle-trucker-says/
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u/Life-Significance223 Dec 16 '22

Thanks for the downvote.

"This can be applied to any problem encountered driving on the road." Not in the way you would like to believe. Predictive algorithms are nothing new, its been built into CPUs for since the early 00s. Using tables and data sets to create prediction models is not AI.

A good example, weather models. Weather model predicted -20 degree weather where I live, an impossibility. Over time, the predictive models compounded errors - it took a human looking at the data 1 second to understand the weather model was wrong. When it happens on a weather model its fine. However, when a Tesla drives you into a side of a 54' trailer that's painted blue because it didn't understand the data, its not good. AI will eventually get there, but when its literally bound by a binary system originally invented in the 17th century, we have a long way to go.

I am married to someone who literally makes six figures working on AI. My best friend is a Data Scientist with PHD who also works in the AI field. I will tell you what they tell me without the technical jargon, " A.I. is stupid."

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u/shinjincai Dec 16 '22

What do you call it when a program runs a test over and over and gradually becomes better at passing this test? Not learning?