What if Your Waymo or Tesla Hallucinates?
Self-driving cars can still make mistakes, sometimes with frightening consequences. On “Interesting Times,” the author Andrew Miller joins the columnist Ross Douthat to discuss the inhuman errors these cars sometimes make, and whether they can be hacked.
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new video loaded: What if Your Waymo or Tesla Hallucinates?transcriptBacktranscriptWhat if Your Waymo or Tesla Hallucinates?Self-driving cars can still make mistakes, sometimes with frightening consequences. On “Interesting Times,” the author Andrew Miller joins the columnist Ross Douthat to discuss the inhuman errors these cars sometimes make, and whether they can be hacked.Is there a self-driving car equivalent of a ChatGPT hallucination. Like, are there scenarios where the car just does something and you don’t know why it did it. Oh, absolutely.
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