interesting that Waymo could do uninterrupted trips back in 2013, wonder what took them so long to expand? regulation? tailend of driving optimization issues?
noticed one of the slides had a cross over 'AGI 2027'... ai-2027.com :)
Eh, he ran Teslas self driving division and put them into a direction that is never going to fully work.
What they should have done is a) trained a neural net to represent sequence of frames into a physical environment, and b)leveraged Mu Zero, so that self driving system basically builds out parallel simulations into the future, and does a search on the best course of action to take.
Because thats pretty much what makes humans great drivers. We don't need to know what a cone is - we internally compute that something that is an object on the road that we are driving towards is going to result in a negative outcome when we collide with it.
The counter argument is that you can't zoom in and fix a specific bug in this mode of operation. Everything is mashed together in the same neural net process. They needed to ensure safety, so testing was crucial. It is harder to test an end-to-end system than its individual parts.