Reply to post: Re: Reasonable defaults - instinctive swerve

Remember the Uber self-driving car that killed a woman crossing the street? The AI had no clue about jaywalkers

David Roberts

Re: Reasonable defaults - instinctive swerve

The instinctive swerve when encountering a fast moving unclassified object is more or less built into humans.

I assume is is part of the evolutionary threat model.

Advanced driving includes learning not to swerve to avoid a squirrel in the road which then results in hitting a vehicle in the other lane or a pedestrian beside the road. Or ending up in a ditch.

I wonder if the programmers were aware of this and compensated too much?

Nah.

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