During a recent Tesla earnings call, Mr. Musk, who has struggled with questions about his company’s financial losses and concerns about the quality of its vehicles, chastised the news media for not focusing on the deaths that autonomous technology could prevent — a remarkable stance from someone who has repeated warned the world that A.I. is a danger to humanity.
The reporter is being pretty disingenuous with the opinion they are injecting here. There is a huge gap between a general (super intelligent) AI, and a self-driving car, which is more-or-less a bunch of narrow AI's strung together. Self-driving cars do have the potential to save an enormous number of lives by being far less likely to get into a car accident than your average human driver. In 2916, 37,500 Americans died in car accidents (that's not including the accidents that led to maiming or less severe injuries). If the autonomous cars are only 10% safer than the average American, they could save about 3,000 people per year [0].
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 25.4 ms ] threadThe reporter is being pretty disingenuous with the opinion they are injecting here. There is a huge gap between a general (super intelligent) AI, and a self-driving car, which is more-or-less a bunch of narrow AI's strung together. Self-driving cars do have the potential to save an enormous number of lives by being far less likely to get into a car accident than your average human driver. In 2916, 37,500 Americans died in car accidents (that's not including the accidents that led to maiming or less severe injuries). If the autonomous cars are only 10% safer than the average American, they could save about 3,000 people per year [0].
[0] https://www.wired.com/story/self-driving-cars-rand-report/