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Discourse around AI and self driving cars has always existed in a very silly fictional world
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Same with military drones as far as anyone is aware, although in that case everything is classified so nobody knows for sure
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There is absolutely no reason to change that
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Real question: What will a self driving car actually do - swerve to a lane that it has less data about or keep course and brake hard? I would keep the advantage of data because who knows if there is a cliff? False question here reveals more about ethics of people than cars. twitter.com/wef/status/105…
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No. People are certainly looking at neural net trained control algorithms. I would assume for safety critical applications there would be some old school limit parameters etc., but not really my field so can't tell.
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I'm a bit more familiar with what happens on the air than on the ground, but, it's complicated. I don't see control theory going away any time soon,
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but we do see a growing interest in using it within a simplex architecture where the classic controls only kick in when an ml algorithm tries to do something that lies outside the envelope of safe actions
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This gives you the flexibility to optimize for secondary metrics like comfort or efficiency without sacrificing provable end to end safety
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Source: it's my PhD dissertation, albeit my work is the proofs side and just leaves a hole open where the ML can go
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