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Re: Prediction

Yesterday I was driving around town and a few scattered leaves blew across the road. I considered how an AI would manage navigating these and the following thoughts came to mind: its "sensitivity"would be lowered by its engineers to avoid the car from stopping or braking for every leaf that crossed its path, resulting in the fatal accident in Las Vegas where a woman was run over by an AV (autonomous vehicle) or it would brake or swerve every time it picked up a leaf on its LiDAR.

To me this seems an unworkable situation because these AV's have no real sense of the world (including the physics of leaves, leaflets or plastic bottles that blow across roads).

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