I was in software development for many years, and know what goes on behind the technological hype. I would never, ever, place any faith at all in self-driving vehicles. Self anything, for that matter. It doesn't matter whether it's being run by 'AI' or any other type of software.
My current 11 year old car is automated enough for me, thank you very much. Probably too much so, but I know its foibles. If I ever did get another car, it would be a lot older, and mostly mechanical. I don't drive enough to worry about the pollution/emissions issues, and they're a lot cheaper to run (you can actually work on them as well as fix them, so in the grand scheme of things they're pretty environmentally friendly).
I once owned a '92 Geo Metro convertible that I wish I'd never given up. 60-70 miles to the gallon and dead simple.
@artisan-radio Self driving cars is scary. How does it know what the speed limit is? Or where the lanes are? What if a road with no lines? And if a glitch a major disaster in a malfunction.
I can imagine what happens if a cop stops you and says you were speeding and the "driver" says "but I wasn't driving" "the car is on automatic pilot" Interesting.
My imagination does really interesting math over the conflict posed when your employer owns its own competition. Let's say you are rated No. 1 in your time slot as the most popular DJ on station KDJ, but the station cuts back so that it draws fewer listeners away from its most popular station, K-SPORT. In the old days you could have applied for a job at the competitor owned by a different company but in today's climate what are the chances of a single employer to hire you back to compete against itself and yourself when the reason you were let go was to prevent that very thing from happening? That's the setup while all the hopeful radio wannabees tout the glory of student radio. It would make better sense to construct an actual future for the professional radio industry so that student radio is only a stepping stone and not the end of a career.
So, we are intelligent enough to realize that much of what we human beings think and believe is often artificial in itself, given our persistent inclination toward superstition, and we are capable of realizing that many of us are ignorant for not being fully educated about our incomplete knowledge, so should Artificial Intelligence (AI) more properly be called Artificial Ignorance?
The Al Jazzeera News Channel, as heard during the overnight on KDX, had an unexpected ear delight when a robot spoke from it's AI generated mind, in answer to the question: "Do you have real feelings?" It said, "I feel that my feelings are really real".