• Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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    9 days ago

    A woman was killed by a self driving car because she walked her bicycle across the road. The car hadn’t been programmed to understand what a person walking a bicycle is. Its AI switched between classifying her as a pedestrian, cyclist, and “unknown”. It couldn’t tell whether to slow down, and then it hit her. The engineers forgot to add a category, and someone died.