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Tarzanrock

(1,250 posts)
15. Artificial Intelligence is not "Hype."
Sun Feb 16, 2025, 05:45 PM
Feb 2025

I'm in Los Angeles. I see Waymo robotaxis -- autonomous, driverless vehicles operating safely on the streets of Los Angeles every day. In fact, I see them several times each day. These are "facts" not nonsensical hyperbole:

Waymo is currently delivering more than 150,000 autonomous rides per week in Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Just a few months ago, the firm was only completing about 50,000 rides per week – meaning it’s tripled its ride volume in just a few months.
Waymo has plans to expand to 10 new cities in 2025, including Las Vegas, San Diego, Atlanta, Austin, and Miami. Plus, the company has partnered with Uber to autonomously deliver food through Uber Eats in select locations, including Phoenix.
Late last year, Elon Musk unveiled the Cybercab and Cybervan, two fully autonomous vehicles – without steering wheels – that Musk sees as the future of Tesla. In fact, perhaps even more exciting, Tesla plans to launch its own robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in just a few months!
Soon, there will be autonomous, driverless 18 wheeled tractor-trailor trucks operating on the Interstate Highways carrying freight from city to city.
I'm a laywer and I'm in the law business -- all legal document review software platforms now incorporate some version of A.I. into their programming. The use of A.I. in Law, Medicine and Engineering (just to name a few professions) has been exponentially growing and markedly so over the past several years. It will soon grow exponentially with the advent of newer and faster semiconductor chips the likes of which Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor and AMD are now imagining, designing and creating. The advent of the third decade of the 21st Century (only 5 years away) will be nothing like the world today!

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Absolutely! SheltieLover Feb 2025 #1
It is also an aesthetic mr715 Feb 2025 #2
All I want for AI dweller Feb 2025 #3
Full-self driving is very close to fruition. I agree with the rest Ken Mosul Feb 2025 #4
FSD may be amazing, but there isn't a single person Bluetus Feb 2025 #7
I am involved in AI Henry203 Feb 2025 #5
Mind-blowing and actually working are two completely different things Bluetus Feb 2025 #9
It is funny that you mention that Henry203 Feb 2025 #10
Again, I agree it can be amazing. That's not the same as being brilliant. Bluetus Feb 2025 #11
You don't know what you are talking about Henry203 Feb 2025 #12
What's your point? Bluetus Feb 2025 #19
You really don't get it Henry203 Feb 2025 #40
I get your point but it also has a lot of real world applications. Quixote1818 Feb 2025 #6
AI generated songs and yt video narrations are something I can't stand yaesu Feb 2025 #8
Hype Maninacan Feb 2025 #13
AI has massive scientific, medical, and military research potential. Hanzzy72 Feb 2025 #14
Key word: "potential" Bluetus Feb 2025 #20
Artificial Intelligence is not "Hype." Tarzanrock Feb 2025 #15
And Waymo is 5 years ahead of Tesla because Bluetus Feb 2025 #21
The state of the art in AI is advancing almost daily-- no technology has moved forward this quickly andym Feb 2025 #16
By +/- 2030 a lot of Americans quite likely will be the owners of Tarzanrock Feb 2025 #17
I'm skeptical JoseBalow Feb 2025 #31
A few thoughts from an 87 year old........ BarbD Feb 2025 #18
Of course it is. That is why models trained on Twitter conversations Bluetus Feb 2025 #23
"...end up behaving like Putin's bots." Norrrm Feb 2025 #34
Could not disagree with you more. Yavin4 Feb 2025 #22
Kindly tell me what AI system exists today Bluetus Feb 2025 #24
That is something that AI could be trained to do in the very near future. Yavin4 Feb 2025 #26
Fine. In that case, the FAA should write a bid spec Bluetus Feb 2025 #28
You keep conflating Musk with AI Yavin4 Feb 2025 #29
If people want to roll the dice with their own money on the hopes of the next great AI app Bluetus Feb 2025 #33
AI in the medical field jeffreyi Feb 2025 #25
Many possibilities. It would be great to see pharmacies Bluetus Feb 2025 #37
Sky Net is very near to being a reality...When the AI has nukes we will obey.... wcmagumba Feb 2025 #27
I got involved with AI in the late 80s Jarqui Feb 2025 #30
Precisely. All the big buzzwords go this way. Bluetus Feb 2025 #36
Even these claims of AI Jarqui Feb 2025 #39
"AI" is a really general topic, tbh. Oneironaut Feb 2025 #32
AI is at the DotCom stage of development: overhyped underdelivered. DotCom gave way to DotBust about a quarter artemisia1 Feb 2025 #35
It's not there yet Johnny2X2X Feb 2025 #38
You may be giving "croporate planning" too much credit Bluetus Feb 2025 #41
I use perplexity and Claude and I'm amazed how good they are at responding... DSandra Feb 2025 #42
Indeed. Some AI tools are time-savers Bluetus Feb 2025 #43
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