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Self-Driving Gullibility
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Why is it that we’re willingly fooled by some people? Usually it’s some charismatic leader, or someone who provides something that fills us with great hope — yes, that sounds rather cult-like, doesn’t it?
Example: Elon Musk, that great showman / Twitterer-in-chief, has consumers and investors alike eating out of his hands with promises that are just around the corner or that never materialize. Such as fully autonomous driving on the Tesla Model 3, which we now find will not be happening (not to mention that Tesla’s are Level 2 autonomous, not Level 5, as indicated).
We think we’re intelligent, but plenty of us have been taken in by confidence artists of one sort or another “It couldn’t happen to me,” you say. Well, it most likely does in one way or another. It’s just part of human nature. William James wrote: “No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance.”
More on this topic on Episode 52 of The Full Monty podcast.
Artificial Intelligence / Autonomous
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