Yet self-driving cars are already competitive with human drivers, safety-wise, given responsible engineering and deployment practices.
Like medicine, self-driving is more of a seemingly-unsolvable political problem than a seemingly-unsolvable technical one. It's not entirely clear how we'll get there from here, but it will be solved. Would you put money on humans still driving themselves around 25-50 years from now? I wouldn't.
These stories about AI failures are similar to calling for banning radiation therapy machines because of the Therac-25. We can point and laugh at things like the labeling screwup that pjdesno mentioned -- and we should! -- but such cases are not a sound basis for policymaking.
> Yet self-driving cars are already competitive with human drivers, safety-wise, given responsible engineering and deployment practices.
Are they? Self driving cars only operate in a much safer subset of conditions that humans do. They have remote operators who will take over if a situation arises outside of the normal operating parameters. That or they will just pull over and stop.
I've never been in a self-driving car myself, but your position verges on moon-landing denial. They most certainly do exist, and have for a while.
Yes, they still need human backup on occasion, usually to deal with illegal situations caused by other humans. That's definitely the hard part, since it can't be handwaved away as a "simple" technical problem.
AI in radiology faces no such challenges, other than legal and ethical access to training data and clinical trials. Which admittedly can't be handwaved away either.
Like medicine, self-driving is more of a seemingly-unsolvable political problem than a seemingly-unsolvable technical one. It's not entirely clear how we'll get there from here, but it will be solved. Would you put money on humans still driving themselves around 25-50 years from now? I wouldn't.
These stories about AI failures are similar to calling for banning radiation therapy machines because of the Therac-25. We can point and laugh at things like the labeling screwup that pjdesno mentioned -- and we should! -- but such cases are not a sound basis for policymaking.