While things are getting absurd with OpenAI, I just was confronted with AI driving a car. Yes, Waymo.<\/p>\n
So I\u2019m a the light behind it. The light turns green, we go, super smooth. At the end of the next street, there\u2019s a stop. The Waymo stops for quite some time even though there\u2019s no traffic.<\/p>\n
There is. A pedestrian is jogging on the sidewalk and about to cross the street. I then notice that the Waymo has a pedestrian sign lit up on its roof. Smart. The car had seen him, in the dark, far before any human eyes could see him.<\/p>\n
We then go on and the Waymo keeps its distance with the car in front of us. I pass them both. The Waymo was waiting for that lame human being driver to scoot over. It then smoothly accelerates and come next to me. Windows down.<\/p>\n
The Waymo has no driver in the driver\u2019s seat. Not the first time that I see that, but for the first time, it\u2019s next to me.<\/p>\n
A CAR DRIVING SMOOTHLY IN TRAFFIC WITHOUT A DAMN DRIVER AT THE WHEEL. THE WHEEL TURNS BY ITSELF. YO<\/p>\n
It\u2019s incredible because even though I know it, knew it<\/em>, seeing it happening in front of you is exhilarating. I\u2014<\/p>\n And yes, passengers in the back. An older black couple looking like they\u2019ve been doing this since 1963, blas\u00e9 AF. Of course!<\/p>\n Far or close, the now is surreal and<\/em> very real. Seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While things are getting absurd with OpenAI, I just was confronted with AI driving a car. Yes, Waymo. So I\u2019m a the light behind it. The light turns green, we go, super smooth. At the end of the next street, there\u2019s a stop. The Waymo stops for quite some time even though there\u2019s no traffic. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4753,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions\/4753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}