Too Long; Didn't Read
This <a href="http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2018/09/24/trolling-the-ai/" target="_blank">particular episode of CommitStrip</a> pretty much represents the popular take on AI. Mind you, “popular take” is, as usual, <em>not</em> the same as “realistic”. After all, <a href="https://dieswaytoofast.blogspot.com/2018/08/deep-learning-and-security.html" target="_blank">when you’re designing robust systems, one of the very first things you’ll do is correct for signs that are missing, misplaced, or mis-identified</a>, and if/when self-driving cars actually make their way into the real world, one of the things that they <em>will</em> be is robust against errors at multiple levels.<br>Heck, that’s pretty much the way <strong>humans</strong> work — our vision is pretty seriously fallible, but we correlate a lot of <em>other</em> information to make sure that we don’t f**k up!