By: tonycpsu
What's to stop BMW, Porsche, or Ferrari from selling a car with a douchebag AI option that purposely ignores other vehicles and forces them to compute an optimum solution that involves getting out of...
View ArticleBy: drjimmy11
What if the bus driver is a child molester though? What if he's a child molester on his way to support the troops?
View ArticleBy: humanfont
I think that there are expectations and assumptions about how a computer driving system would perform that are inconsistent with computable outcomes. The calculations required to create a highly...
View ArticleBy: symbioid
I'm not sure that two professions that are gonna be on the B-Ship should have anything to do with building machines with conscience. Especially considering the specific professions they are in.
View ArticleBy: It's Raining Florence Henderson
She's a little douche coupe - you don't know what I've bot...
View ArticleBy: RonButNotStupid
The autonomous vehicles (presumably just those on the same stretch of road, but maybe later all the cars in a city) are working together to find a single optimal solution, which makes the whole system...
View ArticleBy: localroger
...of anyone saying that "ethics don't belong" in some area of human endeavor. Nobody is saying that. We're saying ethics don't belong in some area of machine endeavor. The most important thing you can...
View ArticleBy: srboisvert
The great thing about having self-driving cars is that our hands will be free. For handguns!
View ArticleBy: localroger
but it seems to me knowing weights is helpful in predicting what the road will look like in the very near future. Well sure, more information is always better. But the original conjecture was that it...
View ArticleBy: arsey
but also with the possibility of machines making their own moral progress, bringing them past our own limited early-twenty-first century idea of morality. holy shit what a terrible idea. they would...
View ArticleBy: JimInLoganSquare
I just thought of another interesting set of questions. Would auto-piloted vehicles be programmed to refuse to operate in dangerous conditions, such as a blizzard or ice storm? How dangerous would it...
View ArticleBy: JimInLoganSquare
I thought the premise of the problem was that the bus has a human driver who makes a mistake and veers right into the path of the driverless vehicle. This was my first thought when I read the example...
View ArticleBy: tonycpsu
The main way weight would be useful in predictive accident avoidance is figuring out where the vehicles will go in a crash you can anticipate should you need to avoid them later yourself. Knowing the...
View ArticleBy: DU
Always be very suspicious of anyone saying that "ethics don't belong" in some area of human endeavor.
View ArticleBy: Kevin Street
"Didn't we already create autonomous high frequency trading bots that dominate much of our financial services transactions without any regard for morality or ethics? It seems the die is cast." But...
View ArticleBy: localroger
Lagniappe: When I'm not posting here or writing weird unpublishable novels about this very topic, I work for a scale company. So dealing with heavy things is kind of what I do. For practical purposes...
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