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A screenshot from the linked article which states: We’ve been watching this play out in the realm of self-driving cars for years now. Tesla’s entire approach to driving automation technology has basically no real technical basis, beyond the faith that someday its fleet database becomes so big, or a new algorithm becomes so magical, that it just works. So lost are Musk’s followers in a maze of word games and “misplaced concreteness,” that they can’t even define a consistent line between when a car is driving itself and when it isn’t. They can speak about abstract concepts (what one might term “the lore”) with absolute confidence, but the moment the conversation becomes rooted in the real world of insurance, legal liability, economic viability or safety-critical performance and validation, the whole edifice falls apart.

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A screenshot from the linked article which states: We’ve been watching this play out in the realm of self-driving cars for years now. Tesla’s entire approach to driving automation technology has basically no real technical basis, beyond the faith that someday its fleet database becomes so big, or a new algorithm becomes so magical, that it just works. So lost are Musk’s followers in a maze of word games and “misplaced concreteness,” that they can’t even define a consistent line between when a car is driving itself and when it isn’t. They can speak about abstract concepts (what one might term “the lore”) with absolute confidence, but the moment the conversation becomes rooted in the real world of insurance, legal liability, economic viability or safety-critical performance and validation, the whole edifice falls apart.
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Adam Cook (adamjcook@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 19:40:04 JST Adam Cook

Well put.
And frankly, the #ML community needs a serious (technical and ethical) wake-up call.
Many would gush over Tesla’s so-called “#AI Days” while neglecting to demand any safety case.
That advanced and legitimatized Tesla’s wrongdoings - wrongdoings where people have died avoidably.
These are #SafetyCritical systems and not “AIs”.
A robust systems safety process is the real, competitive value - not the data, NN architecture, sensors, compute, or whatever.
Tesla has no process.

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