I've been having fun playing Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (2016).
In it the player controls a team of stealthy assassins in real time who coordinate to infiltrate heavily guarded Shogunate fortresses. The characters and voice acting are quite well done.
The gameplay is very tricky and fickle but I guess it's fun because yesterday I downloaded the expansion with a bunch of new level to sneak around in.
The first summer after COVID I was bitten by 3 different dogs in 3 separate incidents. I went 48 years without ever getting bitten by a dog until that one season.
With a cursory glance at Tesla's hardware the rest of the self driving car industry quickly surmised that it was at the time nowhere near sufficient to to deliver L4 autonomy, and that's before sensor modalities entered the equation. Karpathy was either BSing for money, or he actually believed the hype. Either way it was a bad look.
> it was at the time nowhere near sufficient to to deliver L4 autonomy
It still isn't. Show me a video based only vision system that's even L3. Current systems like Waymo are using video, radar, and lidar. Even lidar isn't enough. Each of them provides a different benefit. I mean radar can even do something humans can't, see in fog, why would you not want radar? And I mean at that time Tesla was using 1.2MP cameras...
Truth is what they did was impressive, but given their constraints, but the constraints were self-imposed and unnecessary. So it's more impressive in the way that it is impressive when someone that was shot crawled their way to the hospital. Still impressive even if they shot themselves, but it sure does make you feel a little different...
The original Autopilot team had some great talent. Elon fired them and then sued them because they wouldn't shut up about Lidar. Elon couldn't say "Every new Tesla is FSD ready" if every new Tesla needed Lidar for that to be true, that was the constraint.
The Woz was on TV in an interview saying he bought 2 Model 3s, one for himself and one he could put to work after the robotaxi update. Regular everyday suckers too were taking on crippling debt to buy Teslas because their cars were gonna pay for themselves after the magical update.
>The original Autopilot team had some great talent. Elon fired them and then sued them because they wouldn't shut up about Lidar.
OK, so then why didn't Karpathy also leave in protest? Unless he also supported Elon's decision in which case he's complicit and just as responsible as ELon.
Karpathy didn't leave in protest because he was the guy hired to replace the protesters. His job was to be a credible technical authority on ML backstopping the sales pitch that Full Self-driving could be achieved on Tesla's hardware.
Well then, if he chose to be the fall guy and trade his honor and credibility in exchange for Elon's money and Tesla's prestige at the time while the going was good, why the defense for him now?
I would say that poverty is a relative concept, and because technology tends to increase the gap between the wealthiest and poorest persons it ultimately has the effect of creating more poverty. Today You and a million of your closest friends together aren't even worth as much as the single wealthiest dude, that's how broke you all are. Nobody was so broke that they were worth less than a millionth of a person 10k years ago.
Another way to think about it: Technology has increased the number of people. There was a human population bottleneck about 900,000 years ago, and the breeding population was reduced to only a few thousand people. So all the world's assets were divided between them. Now all the world's assets are divided between 8 billion people, which means less wealth per person, and more poverty.
As a technologist here's what's especially impoverishing: You don't get to be the guy who came up with the lightbulb or the mass produced automobile, or the theory of relativity. Ford, Edison and Einstein took that from you. They took it from everybody. We have a lot of forgetting to do before before any human being alive can carry with them as much potential as pre-Edison humanity had, and we're lesser for it.
And of course, Artificial light and gasoline powered locomotion have done nothing to alleviate suffering and death, these are dominant and inescapable components of being alive, as true for modern humans as it was for the neolithic ones. All glory is fleeting.
So you measure wealth only relatively? If you are the same as everyone else, even if you are all starving to death that is better than being the poorest person in a society but living in a house and having plenty of food and being physically safe?
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