Matt Great perspective. I agree with it. But, the industry is experiencing more problems than they care to admit to with autonomous-driving technologies. Currently, it's almost tram-like in its requirement for guiding infrastructure to navigate by. It's a critical dependence on networked infrastructure, maybe even the IoT.
For a moment then, let's assume a global perspective, including all developing economies in it as well. Are these excluded from AGI empowerment? They usually are. Should they be? I think not. Are there only poor persons in developed economies? Surely not! For me, the true test of autonomous driving would be the ability for passenger vehicles (public transporters) to navigate in Africa's town-to-city routes and other developing cities all over the world. In other words, it's going to ultimately become even more expensive and exclusive than self-drive vehicles would. Restrictive travel without the liberty driving skills currently bring. That would defeat the prime objective of benefiting society economically via AGI, which is the major selling point to most disruptive technologies. It will make things better for general society! It hardly ever does. Is there enough competency here to actually address such a domain constructively? Who would benefit financially from the IP shared? Not politics then per se, but simple sociology. We need to let researcher-contributors know whats in it for them. That's a reality of what motivates our species, and high achievers. Rob ________________________________ From: Matt Mahoney via AGI <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 02 August 2018 11:46 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Reality On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 3:43 PM Steve Richfield via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > Should we be: > > 1. hiring otherwise-homeless people to drive cars, or > 2. have computers drive our cars and tax the computers to support the > homeless, or > 3. ignore what technology is doing to our society and just let Darwin do his > ugly thing to the homeless? Again with the politics? Self driving cars will reduce traffic accidents. It will also make ride sharing more affordable, which will make it more practical to not own a car, which will reduce the demand for parking space, which will reduce land costs, which will make it slightly more affordable for the homeless to have a place to live. It won't eliminate the restrictive zoning laws that drive up home prices, but that's not a topic for this list. -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T56889bf27bc7ed87-M957e8bcafbde61e67cb4aaac Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
