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Vegas64

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  1. For all the fun we have about how there aren’t any real or good applications of AI and it’s all fugazi, I was listening to something that startled me. self-driving à la Waymo is a slam dunk grand slam AI story from every angle you look. Self driving only took off after all the neural AI discoveries and advancements of LiDAR and sensors to feed data for foundational models to process. Most of us are familiar because we live or spend significant time in Austin (or SF), but as it starts to roll out nationally and globally the world will appreciate it. - CDC statistics cite over 40k deaths in USA a year or 120 a day due to vehicle crashes operated by people. - adjusted for city street driving, apples to apples, Waymo is 91% safer then people driving . You can understand why if you’ve driven the last 10 years with the advent of the smartphone and the epidemic of distracted driving. Heck someone on one of the AI threads posted while driving on CarPlay. - and this isnt just a small data set. Waymo has millions of miles driven. - 91% reduction in accidents is a massive cash savings. CDC put out a report on Medical costs and cost estimates of lives lost is $470bn a year (2022). 91% reduction and reducing crashes 10x is $420bn a year. That is nuts. - It was relatively cheap for an AI investment too. 15bn investment to get this to this point. $15bn is a fraction of what foundational AGI models have burned. $15bn is 1 year of Ubers profits. It’s 1 month of Google profits.
  2. There is a reason people who look and talk and live like me are enjoying Mamdani in NYC.
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