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Alex Roy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
215 total appearances

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Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

because some human drivers are great and some roads are very hard.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

But this is, you know, this is in motion already.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

And if you look at the progress over 10 years, it's extraordinary.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

Frankly, I'm stunned that anyone even debates this at this point.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

It's certainly the case of Waymo.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

Other companies remains to be seen.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

Of course.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

I mean, look, there are a hundred deaths a day to human drivers, human error.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

And, you know, people focus on these fairly, I mean, almost always insignificant incidents that occur with these autonomous vehicles.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

And Waymo, you know, nothing, when a vehicle is in motion, no vehicle is perfect.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

But Waymo is by far the best actor here doing extraordinary work and demonstrating this every day.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

Now, for every incident, there is development in the back end to mitigate and eliminate that incident happening again.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

I mean, the logic here against this technology is so absurd.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

People forget commercial aviation is less than 100 years old as we know it.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

They were extraordinary disasters.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

It had absolutely no effect on the growth of commercial aviation.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

Autonomous vehicles out of the gate, and Waymo certainly, are already orders of magnitude better than the majority of human drivers.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

And so to suggest that because after 15 years they're not 100% perfect,

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

shows a profound lack of seriousness in how technologies evolve and get deployed.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges

The rate at which they're improving is so extraordinary.