Rebecca Solnit

Foreword

By Edo Segal

The sentence that rearranged everything was not about artificial intelligence. It was about driving.

Rebecca Solnit pointed out that driverless cars are called autonomous vehicles, but driving is not an autonomous activity. It is a cooperative social activity. The person behind the wheel communicates with other people on the road through eye contact, through gesture, through the thousand micro-negotiations that allow millions of strangers to share asphalt without killing each other in numbers far greater than they do.

Remove the human from the car, and you do not get a more efficient driver. You get something that cannot make eye contact.

I read that and the ground shifted. Not about cars. About everything I had been building.

The entire premise of the AI acceleration I describe