Around 1968 I read about the concept of creating a driverless car.
Now it's 39 years later and they still can't.
If I remember correctly, around 1979-80 I remember reading or hearing
about androids walking around and doing jobs around the year 2000.
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From a previous post:
But I am
not the first to point out that "AI" is a moving target. As soon as a milestone is actually
achieved, it ceases to be "AI".
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Maybe I don't understand what is being said here. Either a car can drive
itself or it can't, and it can't.
(By the way I'm still waiting for my flying car.)
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The driverless car is an emerging family of technologies, ultimately aimed at a full "taxi-like" experience for car users, but without a driver. Together with alternative propulsion, it is seen as the main technological advance in car technology by 2020. These projects are also referred to as an autopilot, autonomous vehicle, auto-drive car, or automated guided vehicle (AGV).
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Sure, decade after next. Whatever the decade we're in.
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Though the vision of a fully autonomous vehicle is clear, it would be such an upheaval in technology and lifestyle that few dare contemplate a 'Big Bang' new technology that would simply do it. From a scientific/engineering point of view, this looks like a case of an AI-complete problem, meaning that it is so complex that it can only be solved completely by a program that has human-level intelligence.
The social challenge is in getting people to trust the car, getting legislators to permit the car onto the public roads, and untangling the legal issues of liability for any mishaps with no person in charge.
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After reading what I just found...
"...getting legislators to permit the car onto the public roads, and untangling the legal issues of liability for any mishaps with no person in charge."
I just don't see it in our lifetimes.
Has it ever been determined how much processing power is needed
to run an android, that can understand a little English (and therefore maybe
hold down a job)?
I wouldn't call "Make me a hamburger." or any of the
100 or so other common phrases heard in a restaurant a moving AI
target. It's not like the thing has to know all of the English language.
It's not like the thing has to adapt. There are certain fixed steps to making
a burger. I don't know about the AI field, so I am somewhat curious as to
how many gates (or transistors) they say they need. If they don't know
this, they are totally in the dark.
From a previous post:
"The better the computing hardware, the less
understanding you need to build an AI."
-Stephen