Musk: Tesla’s Self Driving AI will Soon Have “Chat GPT Moment”

May 17, 2023

Crazy bastard is pulling levers at the world’s most influential tech and media companies. At the moment, all we can do is hang on.

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8 Responses to “Musk: Tesla’s Self Driving AI will Soon Have “Chat GPT Moment””

jimbills Says:

May 17, 2023 at 4:50 pm
The problem technically is “edge cases”, or the unexpected – a traffic cone in the road, a cow that won’t move, so on. Rare on an everyday basis, but they happen often enough, and the vehicle has no idea what to do. They’ve gotten cars ‘almost’ all the way there, it’s just that humans are still better at handling the unexpected, and the unexpected appears to be much more difficult for these companies to solve.

It might be that AGI (or closer to it) is needed instead of just ChatGPT level AI, but this opens a whopper of a can of worms.

Musk has said every year since about 2019 that self-driving is a year or so away:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/27/how-self-driving-cars-got-stuck-in-the-slow-lane

But, he and others are in the business of technological hype. They get better share returns by overpromising.

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- jimbills Says:
  
  May 17, 2023 at 5:27 pm
  AI specialist commented on this exact topic a few months ago:
  https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/future-perfect/23622120/elon-musk-solve-ai-chatgpt-wrong
  
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  - rhymeswithgoalie Says:
    
    May 18, 2023 at 6:52 pm
    From linked reference on hallucinations:
    https://cybernews.com/tech/chatgpts-bard-ai-answers-hallucination/
    
    The solution heavily depends on a specific AI model. However, tactics used by researchers often include focusing the AI on validated data, thus ensuring the quality of the training data.
    
    AI scientists fine-tune artificial intelligence using validated data, training the AI to be more robust against unrealistic inputs, and creating a feedback loop by having human evaluators review the outputs generated by the AI system.
    
    Will such an AI reject the possibility of a “black swan” because it hadn’t seen one before?
    
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- rhymeswithgoalie Says:
  
  May 18, 2023 at 6:42 pm
  I call the Tesla add-on the Full Drunk Driving feature.
  
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James W. Crissman Says:

May 17, 2023 at 5:02 pm
We have a Tesla Y. I paid $8K for the full self driving program. Absolutely the worst money I ever spent. It hits the brakes while passing semis and fails to stop at stop signs–even T-intersections. I don’t trust it or use it at all. Other than that, it’s a great car.

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- rhymeswithgoalie Says:
  
  May 18, 2023 at 6:53 pm
  I paid $8K for the full self driving program.
  
  Did Elon at least give you a blue check mark?
  
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  - James W. Crissman Says:
    
    May 18, 2023 at 10:04 pm
    I hear there is a bumper sticker (must get one) that says “I bought it before I knew who he was.”
    
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John Oneill Says:

May 18, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Tony Seba claims full self-driving will crash car ownership, and transform city transport. Instead of streets jammed with commuters, we’d have streets jammed with robotaxis going both ways, full and empty. Or will they all be down in the tunnels Musk’s digging ? (sarc)

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