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gatorling t1_iwd2dfd wrote

Reply to comment by nbond3040 in Waymo’s driverless taxis keep making incremental progress, while others flounder by AdmiralKurita

How is this different than what Waymo is doing. Waymos vision is universal autonomous driving. They are laser focused on creating an autonomous driver, not a car.

Tesla is interested in making an autonomous driving a feature for their car...and Tesla is an EV company. They gave up LIDAR and are intentionally hamstringing their sensor suite for ???? Reasons.

In the end autonomous driving is mostly a computer science (arguably a machine learning) problem.. and Google is all in on machine learning. From having another bet (deep mind) that is 100% focused on novel ML techniques to having a large, influential division focused mostly on NLP and understanding(Brain, headed by Jeff Dean) to creating their own silicon and super computers that do nothing but train ML models(TPU which win a bunch of MLPerf benchmarks).

So how is Tesla going to beat Google at this? Google has transformed into a ML company.. And Google is now the only company running autonomous car service without restriction in the public domain. Meanwhile Tesla is under safety investigations

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login_not_taken t1_iweicpn wrote

Google was always an ML company, that's literally how Search works.

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gatorling t1_iweipms wrote

This is not true. Google was always an information retrieval company, the pivot to an AI company happened with the founding of brain. Although search uses ML today, the first iteration clearly did not.

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