[LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

[Jim Birch]

BRD wrote:


> Do you suppose Tesla will be required to make their source code
> available for scrutiny if things get to court?


Do you suppose that anyone could understand it?  A multilayer neural
network is essentially a black box.  Presumably Tesla's cars have a bunch
of virtual neural networks in their system.  It's the training that makes
this kind of system work.  It might be possible to assess quality of the
training applied to the system but analysis in the old sense is not going
to work.

We are increasingly in a world where the relationships between inputs and
outputs are beyond humans.  A human needs to chunk complex inputs down to a
handful of variables.  This is not necessary for a machine.  This allows
new classes of problems to be tackled but some traditional touchstones no
longer apply.  Robots will have top level designers and trainers but not
"if X do Y" programmers in the traditional sense.  Also, according to
Asimov: psychologists.

Jim