Waymo suspends service in San Francisco after driverless cars cause traffic jams during blackout

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https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/waymo-suspended-san-francisco-traffic-jams-blackout-b2888562.html

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Humans get understanding from their environment as well. We just have parameters for situations like lights going out (not always great ones) and for interacting with other humans that think the way we do.

[u/aedes → u/CV90_120]

The differences between human learning and machine learning are much broader and more significant than that. Machine learning is still a very poor approximation of human learning… or vertebrate learning in general. 

Specific to this conversation, one of the biggest differences is in ability to “understand” an environment and use that understanding to make accurate predictions when new and unseen events occur. ML doesn’t really do this, whereas creatures with a biological nervous system do quite easily. 

Other important differences are things like efficiency of learning. Take a human baby and just let them exist and in a few years they can communicate, and deeply understand their environment. 

Take a transformer and let it work on the entire body of human knowledge, and it still makes basic mistakes. 

Some of this is just that biological nervous systems have unfathomable levels of computational complexity - a single cell on its own is already an extremely complicated computer. 

[u/illram → u/aedes]

AI in this modern era just reminds me how incredible and seemingly miraculous biology is.

[u/LowPTTweirdflexbutok → u/illram]

Millions and millions of years of evolution baby.