Survey

“…Model 3 owner experienced 'several worrying instances of phantom braking’. AI-possession? Hallucination? Pareidolia? Confabulation? Data intoxication? Samples poisoning? The road without ODDs is only paved with good intentions (and big bad wolves) .."

“… Not only for Security, but for Safety, too. This is likely to be a subject of further investigation especially for the Safety Of The Intended Functions. Not only LLMs makes weird mistakes, but all Machine Learning/Deep Learning -based applications. Hallucination/confabulation is not restricted to language but extends to perception and object recognition (just think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia ). We expect significant advantages by advanced ML/DL explainability models.."

“…Summary for you, so you don’t have to ask ChatGPT (who might be biased): ‘trustworthy’ AI is really too much for the plebs, but we still appreciate the idea that robocars do not ram into children at school or presidential motorcades by unintended behaviour or by hacking.."

“... in an endless flurry of predictable and boring announcements from the irreconcilable camps of AI doomers and AI daredevils, a truly unexpected turns of events: a moderately controversial EU Regulation gets a recommendation from US to become as fiercely controversial as the California bill SB 1047."

“…'If PowerPoint is the universal language businesses use to talk to one another, their internal monologue is Excel’, Banks wrote. And if Word is the specification tool, the end of engineering civilisation is nigh."

“…the plot thickens… and, sadly, it’s not a Netflix series. It’s the same company that in the nineties retorted to Microsoft that they could not rush out products at the same pace as planes cannot reboot on the fly."

“……turns out that a fully autonomous vehicle is more complex than an internet-connected mobile phone."

“…even Titans Bite the Dust."

“…In all fairness, still more likely to be killed by shrapnel from good ol’ zombie airbags than being rolled over by shiny new autonomous hitcars."

“……do you remember how Total Recall was launched in 1990? ‘Get ready for the ride of your life.’… Nearly so!"

“…quite a damning report, for all the fuss on Automotive CyberSecurity: 'Mozilla concluded that of all the types of products covered by its Privacy Not Included project, cars are the worst'."

“…maybe, just maybe, there should be more concern for passengers riding on thin ice."

“……The Software is (h)eating up the World."

“…if you think Software Quality is costly, try Software Rubbishness."

“ ..'It is considered the first algorithm that takes into account all 20 ethics recommendations of the EU Commission’. Somebody might be understandably skeptical about to the use of ‘ethics’ in engineering, however, we cannot forget that the whole of functional safety rests on the precarious definition of what a ‘reasonable’ risk is."

“…although enshrined as a mandatory requirement in international functional safety standards for all sectors, sadly, many people see 'Safety culture' as a bureaucratic blah blah needed to appease the safety assessors, rather than a commitment to a challenging ‘modus operandi’ from top management to single workers."

“..'I think a company like Volkswagen should be focusing more on their core knowledge base, which is developing and building cars. Not software.’ So the software it’s eating up the car, too (but one can’t have the cake and eat it)."

“..'the company is spending on the car project roughly $1 billion annually’. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Costliest Vanity Project of Them All?"

“..'Buyers should permanently disable the vehicle by removing the motor controller’, CPSF said. There are recalls, and there is Total Recall."

"..it truly seems that the blend of AI and EV makes up the hottest industrial sector of the moment. Actually hotter and more dangerous than the Prohibition Era."

"..The hardware is great, but the software is still missing.’ Is this the current decade’s curse?"