Andrew Miller

And because it's an inhuman thing where we're used to only having human activity, it does weird us out.

It does make us nervous.

So regulators, I think, are responding to that.

And to Waymo's credit and Zoox's credit, they're moving slowly and carefully to avoid sparking concern that we've unleashed robots on our streets that are unaccountable.

They don't want us to think about it that way.

So the thing to say about that is just like other kinds of sophisticated AI systems, data is what it needs.

I can only speculate that the Santa Monica incident happened because it was insufficiently aware that at this particular time of day near a school, it should be behaving even more cautiously than normal.

Well, it knows that now.

So we'll have fewer incidents like this.

Every month that passes, the data sets of all these companies get richer.

These sorts of incidents should get fewer, which is another reason why I approve of the strategy of going slow and being humble and being safe, because that's how we win.

That's how we thread this needle.

Oh, absolutely.

I mean, you can find videos on YouTube, if you've got the stomach for it, of Tesla, because they've got the most sophisticated driver assist systems where it's just moving along in the lane, then does a hard left and goes right off through opposing traffic, but right off the road.

And you struggle in vain to know what possibly encouraged it to do that.

Yeah.

So it does happen.

Just like hallucinations with chat GPT, they're getting better all the time, but it's not perfect.

So again, if I was a regulator, I would say, given this scenario, if you're going to operate in public spaces, you had certainly better stand 100% behind it because otherwise it'd be irresponsible.

It's interesting because it does scramble traditional Democrat, Republican, right-left lines.