I agree that they are not now, but your implication is that they would never be good enough.
No! That not what I meant. I'm a big fan of
Ray Kurzweil and his Singularity theory. So eventually there would be AGIs that are smarter then humans. He predicts that computers would exceed human intelligence at around 2030. I think first systems will be commercialized around 2025.
But ten years earlier or 30 years later, doesn't matter, eventually AGI would be around.
Speaking of the devil, Ray was hired by Google recently too...
I was merely pointing out the state of the art of driverless cars is pretty amazing now.
Yes. I totally agree. It was even more amazing in 2005 to listen to Sebastian of how they did their driverless car that driven in the real world... Without humans inside. And his vision of much safer automotive future.
The very important point that ~30.000 Americans die each year in car crashes. And that driverless cars could dramatically reduce that number, among other benefits. 30k bodybags is 30 times
more then America ever lost in Iraq War in a single year. But Iraq was the thing everyone was talking about, on the other hand car crashes were barely on the radar of society.
Why does speech recognition even matter?
Because object recognition is a
MUCH harder task then speech recognition. And to drive safely AI would need to recognize as in example I mentioned: is that a piece of plastic or a human child?
ASR while being much simpler task, is much more commercially developed. Millions of people use technologies from Microsoft, Google, Nuance, iFlytek daily. But it still works far from perfect.
Do you want to yell at Kitt?
Sorry, my English prevents me from understanding this probably cultural reference. But I will try to Google it...
If you show me where I said such a thing I will apologize for being wrong, hang my head in shame, and turn in my security badge forever.
Upps, my apologies. I was being wrong.
BTW, Elon's take on driverless cars: they would come into reality as gradual extantion of active safety features. Please check video, not text here:
Elon Musk interviewed at USA Today (at around 1:35).
When driving north on I-5 from SeaTac area, setting the cruise to 60 in the Model S is far less efficient than manually maintaining a 55-65 range. At least in my experience.
