Driverless cars worse at detecting children and darker-skinned pedestrians say scientists - eviltoast

Driverless cars worse at detecting children and darker-skinned pedestrians say scientists::Researchers call for tighter regulations following major age and race-based discrepancies in AI autonomous systems.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Elon’s bullshit aside, they are leading self driving and the company with most data to train machine learning models on, by FAR.

    Their self driving challenges are not a result of data acquisition, adding LIDAR to the mix would not be helpful. Pedestrian detection is not the big unsolved problem this article makes it sound like.

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      1 year ago

      If the latest FSD update is anything to go buy, they won’t be a leader for much longer if every release makes it worse.