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Comment I can believe to an extent (Score 1) 241

I've travelled with them a few times and have found the rides to be good albeit a bit pricey (objectively an Uber at half the cost gets me from A to B just the same). The issue with the claim is they do extensive, continuous mapping of the environments they work in, and those environments are relatively controlled (mine have all been in SF, and has included a Freeway trip to SFO). I have profound doubts we'll get the fidelity of mapping done on all roads. And having observed them mapping in London in preparation for their rollout here, its obvious London presents a much tougher nut to crack than the grid-system US cities its been used in so far. It was amusing seeing it get utterly gummed up in Soho - because in Soho we stand outside pubs and the kerb is more of a suggestion than a reality.

Comment I don't really get the disconnect (Score 1) 60

So many features are being built that no one cares about - what committee sat down and waved through crosswords being part of the browser? Why not integrate Stockfish and have a Chess app too? Or alternatively... make the browser better for, and I know this is absolute heresy, browsing?

Comment Long term might be good (Score 3, Insightful) 160

All this chat about the vulnerabilities they exploit - we can either let it happen and actually improve the defenses based on what is learned, or we can "cry ban" and pretend stuff that clearly may be vulnerable is invulnerable. I think ultimately it would be better to uncover the flaws, and rectify them than work on a belief-we-doubt because AI's have demonstrated flaws in things we wish to pretend are pristine and perfect.

Comment Re:Making Money Fixing AI Code (Score 1) 81

No, you decided to throw a reference that required interpretation, hoping the reader was aware of Rummy and his views on information. Fortunately I was, and you can't test a negative case you don't know about, that's why it's an unknown unknown. If I were a known unknown, there are lots of tests.

Comment Re:Making Money Fixing AI Code (Score 1) 81

Unknown unknowns are part of the bet unfortunately - DD is done reasonably rapidly, things do get missed naturally - usually it's a synergy category error in retrospective analysis. But given it's a blend of people, technology, culture in org - and these can't be neatly tied with a bow like coding. You can go and read your AI's code and correct it, an acquisition or disposal doesn't have such surety - judgement is needed. And that judgement sometimes does fail.

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