In 2018, an Uber car in autonomous mode struck and killed a woman pushing her bicycle across a highway near Phoenix, Arizona.
When asked about this tragic accident, tech CEOs often frown in irritation and say, “It was just an isolated accident.”
But this accident, along with many others (thank God, less fatal), shows that algorithms aren’t infallible. But if both people and machines make mistakes, why do we need pricey algorithms when we already have 8 billion people?
Read more in my latest newsletter.
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