Reply to post: Re: 6.3% eh?

Microsoft: Our AI speech recognition mangles your words the least

inmypjs Silver badge

Re: 6.3% eh?

"I don't care whether it's a person, another car or a tree."

I care about not jamming on the brakes and having someone tail end me for the sake of a plastic bag blowing across the road or a tin can that looks much bigger on radar.

I care about it not even trying to interpret subtle clues about the future actions of pedestrians and other road users. Will it see a football as a threat? What about a kid that is about to run into the road after it?

Will it see horse shit on the road and take it as an indication there could be a couple of people on horses around the next corner? (an observation and interpretation I have correctly made on more than one occasion). Will it be even surer because it observed the horse shit was still steaming?

The amount of information a competent driver can collect and what can be interpreted from it is simply huge compared to recognising speech. Just look at the data rates 8kb/s for speech, how much all round stereo vision do you get in that?

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