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Old 08-11-2023, 10:08 PM
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Hold on to your Robotaxi butts! SF just expanded the robotaxi service to all across the city 24/7 for GM’s Cruise and Google Spin off Waymo’s autonomous vehicles. Both have been operating in limited fashion for a year or so now, mostly out in the sunset, but now we get to see what happens when they wander downtown.

Cruise and Waymo approved to operate robotaxi services in San Francisco despite safety concerns | NBC news

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People Are Having Sex in Robotaxis. Nobody Is Talking About It
SF Standard As autonomous vehicles become increasingly popular in San Francisco, some riders are wondering just how far they can push the vehicles’ limits—especially with no front-seat driver or chaperone to discourage them from questionable behavior.

For some, that’s a welcome invitation to test the autonomous vehicles’ limits. Megan, a woman in her 20s, took her first robotaxi ride on a recent late-night excursion. It was also her first time having sex in a driverless vehicle.
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Listen. Just because Silicon Valley tech bros were delivered by stork and spawn in test tubes, doesn't mean normal humans stop having sex anytime or anywhere.
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This was just a test of their capabilities.

San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged as a long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill - Los Angeles Times
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Do robotaxis drive better than humans? This S.F. driverless car company [Waymo] says yes | SFChronicle [readerview viewable]
SFChronIn San Francisco, driverless Waymo taxis were involved in crashes resulting in any injury or property damage reported — regardless of who was at fault — at a rate of 0.6 crashes per 1 million miles compared to human drivers’ rate of 5.55, the [Waymo funded] study found.

In the last few months I've had a couple experiences with completely empty Waymos that were downright humanish, in one the magic robot was the only one at the intersection and just started to move as I stepped out into the crosswalk across from it while two other cars pulled up to the multi way stop at the same time. It quickly stopped, recalculated, waited its turn and then went as soon as it could. In another a person was standing partly in the road waiting for the bus, the robot slowed down as if to let them cross, then realized they weren't crossing and lightly sped up while giving the person some room as it drove by. It's surreal to see what feels like such fluid changes to the situation while looking at four empty seats.
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GPT based WritableAI app gives students advice and helps teachers score papers, training students to write in ways the chatbot likes. It also claims it can detect when a chatbot might have been used to write the paper.

On one hand this seems like one of those dead internet loops, on the other if AI videos have taught me anything it's that we should be just as worried the AI will recognize fresh students as mines for novel content to be assimilated before breaking them.

Some teachers are now using ChatGPT to grade papers | Ars Technica
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The way these systems are normally built, the AI isn't capable of learning from the things it's run against, because they instantiate an AI, run it against a thing, get a result, and drop it. There's no training/reinforcement on the production data.
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