Comment Re:What about Google driverless car? (Score 1) 603
The worst part is that Google wants to build a driverless car. Flight pilots have been trained to react to emergencies in a calm manner and they have time to do so while in air. Neither is true for cars. People will panic when something goes wrong, and there won't be any time to react to them. Your life (and others life) will be completely dependent on the AI, and lets face it, there will be bugs.. Google isn't exactly known for bug free products. Hell, even NASA has bugs and they use billions so that there wouldn't be any. I just think it's a really bad idea and Google is being irresponsible and malicious with such project. Of course they will also hide some "we are not responsible for accidents in any way" under some clause. Let me just say that somewhere in the future we will be hearing how Google killed some innocent people and children.
You clearly have no idea about what you're talking about.
I watched a few lectures from ai-class.com, and turns out the car has already been built and is safe upto a very high degree. The car that is currently used has already traveled several thousand miles on its own (exact number in the video below)
What you are missing is the advanced computer vision techniques that are discovered cannot be used in the air, because everything is fucking blue. On the road, computer vision techniques can used to identify objects (which is covered to some extent in ai-class.com). Also we have the added advantage of using GPS when driving on road (I am not sure what is the airborne equivalent of GPS)
Plus you can't see the difference between a bunch of people who wrote code because they wanted to pay their bills vs a dedicated bunch of people who are doing it just because they are passionate about AI (Thrun and his colleagues)
I strongly suggest you to have a look at (the entire video before you be judgemental): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqDvbguZsAA before you comment something related to how much current AI technology sucks.