So Mercedes is taking a stance in this debate. In the future, when buying one of these cars, you should be aware you are making a certain moral choice.

Hotz is trying to out-smart Elon Musk. Fascinating battle.

That is the question asked in this article. And I agree with the author that the decision was probably not wrong. If the decision leading to that accident was taken by a human, we would probably excuse him/her.

We believe that Tesla’s electric cars run the most daring on-line machine learning experiment being conducted today. But in this article, which is about Goldman Sachs visiting the Tesla factory, it seems Elon Musk has grown a little more skeptical about machine learning. This is what is being said in the article: “Goldman came out of the meeting feeling that…

To answer the question in the title right away: yes in my opinion they do. Theories from Philosophy come to their rescue. The first is the theory of the double effect. Another theory that springs to mind is Clark and Chalmers’ extended mind theory: surely we would not want to give the FBI access to…

A fascinating interview with George Hotz: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driving-car/ He does remarkable things. Final edit, as the story behind this post continues to unroll: Tesla’s reaction. Hotz has a different approach to ‘programming how to drive’ than (according to him) others that try to achieve the same. What he does has strong connections with epistemological theories on ‘knowing how’. Basically, what…

Yet another of Elon Musk’s great initiatives. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/ In my opinion the risks of AI are exaggerated by several people. But Musk now has the right perspective: indeed, there is a danger in outsourcing responsibilities to machines. Not because they will develop into malicious evil artificial minds that will eventually intend to destroy us, but,…

As is pointed out in this article. Good that the article makes a distinction between serial and parallel autonomy. Another remarkable piece of information is how much Toyota is investing in Artificial Intelligence: 1 Billion.. Good news for our students AI?

This is quite a good article on autonomous cars and ethics that I apparently had missed (it is from 2014). In the mean time the first experiences with Tesla’s real life machine learning experiment are reported in various places. I am not convinced though that what is happening is actually on-line learning rather then of-line…

Tesla motors last week updated the software in its fleet of electric cars thereby equipping thousands of already opperative cars with ‘auto pilot’ capabilities. Autopilot is at its core a machine learning algorithm that uses information from all the cars in the fleet. Thereby Tesla created a big life machine learning network. Every car learns…