Geoff Hinton Wants Computers to Think More Like Brains
<i>&gt;With self-driving cars, I think people kind of accept that now. That even if you don’t quite know how a self-driving car does it all, if it has a lot fewer accidents than a person-driven car then it’s a good thing.</i><p>Unless there is a condition in the environment that causes a systemic failure involving large number of self-driving cars at the same time. This happens all the time with other types of software. People shouldn&#x27;t assume that machine-learned models are magically different and ignore all common-sense rules we apply to safety-critical applications. In your daily job, would you be willing to bet your entire car on a black box piece of code that seems reliable, because it worked most of the time in the past?<p>Also, recall that flash crash of the stock market. Imagine something like that, but with lots of cars on a highway. If you don&#x27;t understand &quot;how a self-driving car does it&quot;, you are unlikely to install appropriate safeguards.<p>PS: Please don&#x27;t insult your intelligence by replying that we don&#x27;t understand how people drive either, so it makes any opaque self-driving software okay.