Is it time to give up driving?
https://www.understandingai.org/p/human-drivers-are-to-blame-for-most
Human drivers are to blame for most serious Waymo collisions
… driverless Waymo taxis have been involved in fewer than one injury-causing crash for every million miles of driving—a much better rate than a typical human driver.
On Thursday, Waymo released a new website to help the public put statistics like this in perspective. Waymo estimates that typical drivers in San Francisco and Phoenix—Waymo’s two biggest markets—would have caused 64 crashes over those 22 million miles. So Waymo vehicles get into injury-causing crashes less than one-third as often, per mile, as human-driven vehicles.
Waymo claims an even more dramatic improvement for crashes serious enough to trigger an airbag. Driverless Waymos have experienced just five crashes like that, and Waymo estimates that typical human drivers in Phoenix and San Francisco would have experienced 31 airbag crashes over 22 million miles. That implies driverless Waymos are one-sixth as likely as human drivers to experience this type of crash.
The new data comes at a critical time for Waymo, which is rapidly scaling up its robotaxi service. A year ago, Waymo was providing 10,000 rides per week. Last month, Waymo announced it was providing 100,000 rides per week. We can expect more growth in the coming months.
Law moves like a pendulum. (Too far or not far enough.)
Utah Social Media Restrictions Likely Violate First Amendment, Judge Rules
… “The court recognizes the state's earnest desire to protect young people from the novel challenges associated with social media use,” Shelby wrote.
“But owing to the First Amendment's paramount place in our democratic system, even well-intentioned legislation that regulates speech based on content must satisfy a tremendously high level of constitutional scrutiny,” he continued, adding that Utah officials hadn't shown that the law's restrictions were constitutional.
Utah's law, passed earlier this year, would have required platforms to limit the ability of minors under 18 to communicate with users who aren't “connected” to the minor -- which essentially means within that minor's network. That restriction could only have been lifted by parents.
Reading all that public data manually would take hundreds of years, but automating it is a problem?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170
Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option
Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry.
The company does not offer Australians an opt out option like it does in the EU, because it has not been required to do so under privacy law.
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