Return to trombonista's garage

7 Views
No Comments
No Likes
Published on 13 November 2015

I agree with your problem of calling computers intelligent. However, AI or artificial intelligence is coming and in fact almost here. Now that they have had a number of significant breakthroughs with quantum computers, they will get faster by factors of 10 instead of 2. Then there are the interesting experiments made with organic computers whereby they will actually grow in size and numbers of connections. Those are a way off buy my point is that there is so much more than ordinary processing going on out there. But I still think that there is too much of a gap between computing power and the problems that abstract choices bring to the table for AV's to be safe and reliably used. Plus there is the Geneva convention that says that all vehicles need to have a driver. Then again, London has driverless trains on the underground so that argument is wasted. The one and only way that any politician would risk their position when signing off on the legislation allowing these things in the road is if they were confined to an AV only roadway. That would be the only way the public could be kept safe. My God, I sound like the driver of a horse and cart complaining about horseless carriages now. That genuinely scares me. Have I become a short sighted, myopic naysayer? Nah. It was just a nanosecond phase I went through. I'm alright now. Kill the b******* I say! I mean keep those pesky little AV's off the roads.