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

2023 Decembertim333

About Tesla's history of full self-driving promises and whether only edge cases remain.

I'm not sure it is down to edge cases. It's more like they are a fundamental AI breakthrough away until it can understand say that that thing must be a fire truck although it doesn't look the same as the previous ones seen.

I mean alternatively you can take the Waymo approach with loads of sensors and pre mapped routes but Musk seems to be banking on almost human level AI and we aren't there yet.

A self-driving AI recognizes a vehicle as a fire truck even though it looks unlike any it has seen.

Has this happened?

Yes 28 (26%)Not sure 52 (49%)No 26 (25%)

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