{"id":179128,"date":"2018-05-08T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/08\/well-this-is-profoundly-not-reassuring\/"},"modified":"2018-05-08T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T23:48:00","slug":"well-this-is-profoundly-not-reassuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/08\/well-this-is-profoundly-not-reassuring\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, this is Profoundly NOT Reassuring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the robot Uber than ran down and killed a pedestrian <a href=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/uber-self-driving-car-detected-pedestrian-killed-in-cra-1825834016\">saw the woman, but ignored her, because it had been programmed to<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, Uber&#8217;s self-driving software is so crappy and has so many false positives that it was programmed to ignore actual human beings.<\/p>\n<p>Uber is still Uber:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Uber has concluded the likely reason why one of its self-driving cars fatally struck a pedestrian earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/uber-finds-deadly-accident-likely-caused-by-software-set-to-ignore-objects-on-road?eu=edBeZqbMtTtnFcjCY60Zuw&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=sg&amp;utm_campaign=article_email\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to tech outlet <i>The Information<\/i><\/a>.  The car\u2019s software recognized the victim, Elaine Herzberg, standing in  the middle of the road, but decided it didn\u2019t need to react right away,  the outlet reported, citing two unnamed people briefed on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The reason, according to the publication, was how the car\u2019s software was \u201ctuned.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Here\u2019s more from <i>The Information<\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Like other autonomous vehicle systems, Uber\u2019s software has the ability to ignore \u201cfalse positives,\u201d or objects in its path that wouldn\u2019t actually be a problem for the vehicle, such as a plastic bag floating over a road. In this case, Uber executives believe the company\u2019s system was tuned so that it reacted less to such objects. But the tuning went too far, and the car didn\u2019t react fast enough, one of these people said. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me translate this into English:&nbsp; Uber put a 4000 pound death machine on the road with software that was incapable of determining the difference between a plastic bag and a human being.<\/p>\n<p>This is not just reprehensible, it might very well be criminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the robot Uber than ran down and killed a pedestrian saw the woman, but ignored her, because it had been programmed to. Basically, Uber&#8217;s self-driving software is so crappy and has so many false positives that it was programmed to ignore actual human beings. Uber is still Uber: Uber has concluded the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[618,473,365,395,364],"class_list":["post-179128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-auto-industry","tag-business","tag-computer","tag-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}