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Martial Hebert on Why Self-Driving Cars Took So Long and What Everyone Got Wrong About AI
Self-driving cars were supposed to be everywhere by now.
They are not.
And the reason is not what most people think.
In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Martial Hebert, Dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, about the reality behind decades of robotics and AI development.
Martial has spent more than 40 years at the Robotics Institute and worked on some of the earliest autonomous vehicle systems. From that perspective, the story is not about technology failing.
It is about expectations being wrong.
The core technology for self-driving cars has…
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