So much for the idea that self-driving cars are hitting walls.
They are not hitting obstacles nearly as much as human drivers. Yes, Waymo cars only drive in some areas that are fully mapped, they use all kinds of sensors, and they have required a decade of data collection,
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Waymo Self-Driving Cars Outperform Humans on Road Safety
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Tech Giants Battle for AI Assistant Distribution Dominance
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Grok in X
My AI in Snap
Meta AI in Raybans
ChatGPT hardware in R&D The war for AI assistants has crossed the threshold of fighting on capabilities and everyone is staging for an all out battle for distribution -
Elon Musk Unveils Grok AI Bot With Sarcasm and X Data Access
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Elon Musk unveils new #AI bot ‘Grok,’ says it will have sarcasm and access to X information https://
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Tesla Driver Assist Not True Autonomous Driving Technology
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Tesla is not running driverless cars; they are running driver assist. The human assisting is in the car. (not up on want comma is currently doing.)
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OpenAI DevDay Features Questioned Against Startup Innovations
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"OpenAI DevDay could be the biggest AI event of 2023." Hmm. Why do you think so? None of them are new. They are just some features other startups are doing.
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Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Get AI Multimodal Vision Capabilities
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Somehow missed that Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have "Meta AI" (Llama 2?) Controlling the device & asking it questions like ChatGPT is the obvious thing, but this form factor is perfect for vision once Meta AI goes multimodal. It knows exactly what you're looking at.
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Grok emerges as strong OpenAI competitor benefiting consumers
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I absolutely believe Grōk will be a strong competitor to OpenAI. The main winner here is us, the commons, the end consumer. We will have so many powerful tools to pick from.
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Scaling Remote AI Intervention: Feasibility and Hand-Tweaking Challenges
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I look forward to disclosure about how much remote intervention they are doing; and wonder whether what they do can be quickly and feasibly scaled to new locations; I hear there is an enormous amount of hand tweaking. I agree they are probably in the lead.
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True Autonomy in Vehicles: Current Limitations and Requirements
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as of today I am not sure there are any “autonomous vehicles” at scale (excluding monorails etc). If you need a checkin once an hour that’s “vast majority” but not truly autonomous. and if you can’t run without guaranteed cell service, that’s not autonomous, either.
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Cruise’s Safety Claims Questioned: Remote Assist Dependency Exposed
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1. Cruise’s omission was massive; every claim about their putative safety has to be rethought.
2. More will come out about how dependent they were on remote assist
3. What they have is likely too dependent on data transmission to work on highways or at scale. 4. No further