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0 pointsRetric2y ago0 comments

Yea, Eliza is a far worse chat bot than ChatGPT…

More seriously AI has made lots of things better, it’s really the hype cycle that’s disappointing. More FPS in games just isn’t as exciting as self driving cars. But by the time you can buy a level 5 self driving car the technology will be pedestrian.

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lfnoise2y ago

When COVID hit, my American Airlines flight got canceled and when I went online to ask about getting credit, I got connected to a bot. When I asked to be connected to a real person instead of a bot, the person came online and said: "My name is Eliza. How can I help you today?" At this point, I was very skeptical, but she was indeed a person.

pjerem2y ago

"Sorry Eliza, can I speak to your manager ?" "Sure" "Oh, hello, I'm Hal. Eliza told me you want to get credit ? ! I'm afraid I can't do that."

sparrowInHand2y ago

Open the purse, HAL

chx2y ago

An L5 self driving car is decades away. The needle hasn't moved on that one.

Nothing we have currently moves closer to that. Just doing more of the same of the current models will not get you there.

xyproto2y ago

If a city banned all manually driven cars and allowed only self driving cars, the number of car-related deaths would drop to almost nothing. Goods could also be transported more efficiently. The technology to achive this exists right now, L5 or not. The only thing stopping citites from doing this is the cost that inhabitants will have in connection with selling or switching our their car. And all the complaining. But lives would be saved, and the city would be safer and more efficient.

pjerem2y ago

Cities will not need to do that. In Europe they are gradually banning cars as a whole from city centers an you are right, it saves lives. And it also makes those cities more livable.

When I say gradually, it's an euphemism, it's an _extremely_ slow process, but it's the global tendency here.

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Dylan168072y ago

I'm not sure how relevant that argument is.

You could have said the same thing 40 years ago.

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p1esk2y ago

Don't we have self-driving cars operating as taxicabs today in SF?

fragmede2y ago

Cruise is currently operating self-driving "taxi" service between the hours of 9pm and 5:30 am throughout the city to members of the general public who've waited on the wait-list. Waymo is too, in Phoenix, and supposedly SF too, but I don't know anybody personally of the general public in SF that has ridden one.

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lfnoise2y ago

pjerem2y ago

"Sorry Eliza, can I speak to your manager ?" "Sure" "Oh, hello, I'm Hal. Eliza told me you want to get credit ? ! I'm afraid I can't do that."

sparrowInHand2y ago

Open the purse, HAL

chx2y ago

An L5 self driving car is decades away. The needle hasn't moved on that one.

Nothing we have currently moves closer to that. Just doing more of the same of the current models will not get you there.

xyproto2y ago

pjerem2y ago

Cities will not need to do that. In Europe they are gradually banning cars as a whole from city centers an you are right, it saves lives. And it also makes those cities more livable.

When I say gradually, it's an euphemism, it's an _extremely_ slow process, but it's the global tendency here.

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Dylan168072y ago

I'm not sure how relevant that argument is.

You could have said the same thing 40 years ago.

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p1esk2y ago

Don't we have self-driving cars operating as taxicabs today in SF?

fragmede2y ago

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