About whether progress in AI and self-driving has stalled, under a story on Uber's losses.
Has this happened?
Yes 51 (53%)Not sure 13 (14%)No 32 (33%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About whether progress in AI and self-driving has stalled, under a story on Uber's losses.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Modern ML/AI became a fully accepted, mature part of the "production software engineering world", it's a solid career choice, from everything that can be predicted right now. Existing, non-startup companies are using ML/AI to solve real problems and its buzzword powers are shrinking every day.
But regarding autonomous driving, there seems to be stagnation. We now got cars that can "autonomously drive in most conditions but required a driver at the wheel at all times" for many years now. Tesla FSD updates seem to be incremental at best. Is there any company left still planning 100% autonomous taxis that can get drunk people home? I don't think so. And that would be the fucking holy grail of the transportation business. There are about 18 million taxi drivers in the world and most of them would lose their job, saving customers and companies billions.