Goalposts

Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2021 Novembergenewitch

About adversarial image attacks and whether self-driving cars are really coming soon.

I'll be more inclined to start believing that self driving / autonomous vehicles are actually "coming soon" when the federal government decrees it is illegal to wear clothing with certain markings/colors. No red octogons, no reflective red and white parts, no yellow vertical stripes, etc.

I don't think that "cause an air to fail to stop" is the correct threat to address, I think "making AI stop and therefore cause traffic" is.

Wake me up when I can have any two arbitrary addresses as start and end points and a machine or computer can drive me between them, 24/7/365 - barring road closures or whatever.

A self-driving car can drive someone between any two addresses, at any time of day, all year round.

Has this happened?

Yes 25 (19%)Not sure 18 (14%)No 90 (68%)

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