My Top 10 Predictions Are On-Target: Status of AI Self-Driving Cars

Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider

I made some predictions about AI self-driving cars for this year of 2019, doing so at the end of 2018. So far, I’m right on-target. Here are those predictions.

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Achieving true AI self-driving cars will be a crucial evidentiary application of AI for two major reasons.

First, if AI can be developed and deployed for a real-world complex human-based task such as driving a car, it would mean that the field of AI has made tremendous strides and likely a large number of other kinds of hard problems can also be handled via AI. Thus, the driving of a car is merely an exemplar that has forced AI to move forward sufficiently to take on an extremely challenging task that heretofore only cognitively aware humans could do.

Second, the aspect that we would no longer presumably need humans to drive a car and that the driving of a car could entirely be done by an AI system means that the nature of driving and the mobility by society will be radically altered.

The rub is whether we’ll get there without a great deal of torment and hand-wringing, and the other key factor involves the timing of when this will all come to fruition.