On one hand I understand that it is a monumental advance in technology.
On the other hand a computer can recognize a unique face from pretty far.
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Our current advancements in AI have been way overblown. Basically companies are hyping it up because they need investments to make it exist in the first place. They want us to think that we currently have the technology to start letting computers think through problems for us, but we’re actually still just feeding them tons of data and programming them to respond based on the data. This technology can do so many amazing things, but it’s not actually thinking or assessing its environment in any meaningful way.
Those self-driving cars you see videos of are actually loaded with tons of information added by the programmers about its surroundings. Basically it is told where the traffic signs, traffic lights, intersections, and etc are. So they are making some rudimentary decisions based on what it observes as it drives, but it’s helped Along by tons of manual work which wouldn’t be feasible beyond the small area of testing.
So to directly answer your question, self-driving cars are hard to make because we aren’t actually able to create computers that can analyze their environment and make decisions for themselves to that level. When you learn to drive you might feel like it’s kind of an art form and a weird dance between people and the rules of the road. It’s the kind of thing that humans are able to pick up, but it’s completely incalculable to robots at this time.
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