Artificial Intelligence & Education: Tesla vs Waymo

[August1991]

Tesla and Waymo have self-driving cars on the road. These cars rely on AI to decide what to do.

If I understand properly, here's the difference:

-Tesla has zillions of vehicles on the road (self-driving or otherwise) and collects a huge amount of data from all vehicles to try to train/predict what is best to do.

-Waymo has far fewer vehicles on the road but its software engineers/AI focus on what works.

if you're curious, here's the link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08228

Or to understand better, you can google: waymo scale laws 

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Education?

The two methods intrigue me. Around the world, most countries have about 1 in 6 people educating others.

Second question:

If we had Artificial Intelligence in 1890, how would it have responded to the dilemma of the Michelson-Morley experiment?

Heck, if Artificial Intelligence had existed in 1630, would we have discovered calculus?

Edited June 21, 2025 by August1991

[Michael Hardner]

7 hours ago, August1991 said:

 

Heck, if Artificial Intelligence had existed in 1630, would we have discovered calculus?

My statistics Prof used to say that you could use linear regression to come up with a flawed formula for the area of a square. 

The idea being that absolute truth is out there, and approximations and game theory will never get you there. 

The counterpoint to that, now, is that humans do not live on a theoretical two-dimensional plane. They live in a real world. 

I find it impossible to imagine that A I will develop a Picasso, Chuck Berry, Joni Mitchell, Captain Beefheart, Basquiat, Laurie Anderson, Leonard Cohen

Edited June 21, 2025 by Michael Hardner

[User]

Here is the difference:

Tesla is trying to sell electric cars. It's a bonus that they're also innovating to make them self-driving.