China has a long history of siding with vehicles running people over.
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Not sure if you're referring to tianmen or the fun Chinese practice of double tap
This never happened
- PRC
Person crosses street when they shouldn't.
Car lightly taps them and stops.
Person is not injured.
Person is stupid.
I think regulation is important, but this isn't news.
TBF, the car is stupid to, not because of this just in general AI is stupid, if it was a human in the car we would just say he was angry but with AI we know it wasnβt angry and made a mistake, it happened to catch the mistake before it killed somebody but that mistake is in the programming of every single car of that type in the world, letting of a small problem like this is equal to saying itβs legal, since it will be a nation wide bug that is allowed.
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Whether or not to run over the pedestrian is a pretty complex situation.
what was the social credit score of the pedestrian?
To be fair, you have to have a pretty high IQ to run over a pedestrian
Right?
I saw "in a complex situation" and thought "what's complex? Person in road = stop"
Well yes and no.
First off, ignoring the pitfalls of AI:
There is the issue at the core of the Trolley problem. Do you preserve the life of a loved one or several strangers?
This translates to: if you know the options when you're driving are:
- Drive over a cliff / into a semi / other guaranteed lethal thing for you and everyone in the car.
- Hit a stranger but you won't die.
What do you choose as a person?
Then, we have the issue of how to program a self diving car on that same problem. Does it value all life equally, or is it weighted to save the life of the immediate customer over all others?
Lastly, and really the likely core problem, is that modern AI aren't capable of full self driving, and the current core architecture will always have a knowledge gap, regardless of the size of the model. They can, 99% of the time, only do things that are in their data models. So if they don't recognize a human or obstacle, in all of the myriad forms we can take and move as, they will ignore it. The remaining 1% is hallucinations that end up being randomly beneficial. But, particularly for driving, if it's not in the model they can't do it.
We are not talking about a "what if" situation where it has to make a moral choice. We aren't talking about a car that decided to hit a person instead of a crowd. Unless this vehicle had no brakes, it doesn't matter.
It's a simple "if person, then stop" not "if person, stop unless the light is green"
A normal, rational human doesn't need a complex algorithm to decide to stop if little Stacy runs into the road after a ball at a zebra/crosswalk/intersection.
The ONLY consideration is "did they have enough time/space to avoid hitting the person"
The problem is:
Define person.
A normal rational person does have a complex algorithm for stopping in that situation. Trick is that the calculation is subconscious, so we don't think it is complex.
Hell even just recognizing a human is so complex we have problems with it. It's why we can see faces in inanimate objects, and also why the uncanny valley is a thing.
I agree that stopping for people is of the utmost importance. Cars exist for transportation, and roads exist to move people, not cars. The problem is that from a software pov, ensuring you can define a person 100% of the time is still a post- doctorate research level issue. Self driving cars are not ready for open use yet, and anyone saying they are is either delusional or lying.
Person in road = stopβ
i recommend trying https://www.moralmachine.net/ and answering 13 questions to get some bigger picture. it will take you no more than 10 minutes.
you may find out that the problem is not as simple as 4 word soundbite.
In this weekβs Science magazine, a group of computer scientists and psychologists explain how they conducted six online surveys of United States residents last year between June and November that asked people how they believed autonomous vehicles should behave. The researchers found that respondents generally thought self-driving cars should be programmed to make decisions for the greatest good.
Sort of. Through a series of quizzes that present unpalatable options that amount to saving or sacrificing yourself β and the lives of fellow passengers who may be family members β to spare others, the researchers, not surprisingly, found that people would rather stay alive.
same link: https://archive.is/osWB7
Can you swerve without hitting a person? Then swerve, else stay. This means that the car will act predictable and in the long run that is safer for everyone.
can you not enter the road in front of incoming vehicle while ignoring the red light? if you can, then don't. that means that pedestrians will act predictably and in the long run it will be safer for everyone.
Is every scenario on that site a case of brake failure? As a presumably electric vehicle it should be able to use regenerative breaking to stop or slow, or even rub against the guardrails in the side in each instance I saw
There's also no accounting for probabilities or magnitude of harm, any attempt to warm anyone, or the plethora of bad decisions required to put the car going what must be highway speeds down a city stroad with a sudden, undetectable complete brake system failure.
This "experiment" is pure, unadulterated propaganda.
Oh, and that's not even accounting for the intersection of this concept and negative externalities. If you're picking an "AI" driving system for your car, do you pick the socially responsible one, or the one that prioritizes your well-being as the owner? What choice do you think most people pick in this instance?
"here, take these extremely specific made up scenarios that PROVE I AM RIGHT UNEQUIVOCALLY except for the fact that all of them are edge cases, do not represent any of the actual fatalities we have seen and in no way are any of them representative of the case that sparked the whole discussion"
I think I'll skip the "Ai is always good and you're just too stupid to get why it should be allowed to kill people" website.
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Interesting link, thanks. I find this example pretty dumb though. There is a pedestrian crossing street on zebra crossing. Car should, oh I donβt know, stop?
Nevermind, read the description, car has a break problem. In that case try to cause least damage like any normal driver would.
Maybe it could scrape against the barriers to slow down without such a sudden stop for the passenger. IRL itβd depend on how well theyβre lined up.
car is broken and cannot stop. otherwise it could just stop in every single one of the presented scenarios and the "moral dilemma" would be pretty boring
90% of the Sophie's choice hand wringing about this is just nonsense anyway. The scenarios are contrived, exceedingly unlikely, and the entire premise that you can even predict outcomes in these panic scenarios simply does not resemble any real moral framework which actually exists. A self driving car which attempts to predict chaotic probabilities of occupant safety is just as likely to get it wrong and do more damage.
Yes, the meta ethics are interesting, but the idea that this is any more actionable than trolley problems is silly.
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The car should be programmed to self-destruct or take out the passengers always. This is the only way it can counter its self-serving bias or conflict of interests. The bonus is that there are fewer deadly machines on the face of the planet and fewer people interested in collateral damage.
Teaching robots to do "collateral damage" would be an excellent path to the Terminator universe.
Make this upfront and clear for all users of these "robotaxis".
Now the moral conflict becomes very clear: profit vs life. Choose.
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Isnβt China the place where they make sure your dead when they hit you? Backing up running over you multiple times.
It's not that bad anymore.
Why is social media options any factor in this discussion?
It's beneficial to know what the general public thinks about issues?
I don't think "posts on social media" is a good indicator for what the public thinks anymore, if ever. The amount and reach of bot or bought accounts are disturbingly high.
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Reading the comments I get the impression that most people didn't actually read the article, which says that a woman was barely touched and not injured by a self-driving car while crossing the street with a red light.
There barely is "news" here, as the car correctly halted as soon as possible after noticing the pedestrian unforeseeable move, so let alone sides to take.
I am perfectly aware that self-driving technology still has numerous problems corroborated by the incidents reported from time to time, but if anything this article seems a proof that these cars will at least not crush to death the first pedestrian that does a funky move.
Why read the article when I can repeat lies and make tired jokes about social credit scores because China bad?
The car has perfect social credit, the 'human' failed to yield at a crosswalk once in 2003.
You do the math, idiotic westerners suck with our superior inverse-logic.
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