adamjcook

@adamjcook@mastodon.social

Engineer focused on #Robotics, #ControlSystems, #SystemsSafety, #Manufacturing and #Simulation. #ManufacturingOpen Contributor. #Purdue Engineering alum. Living in #Detroit. He/Him.
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adamjcook, (edited ) to chicago

I was at Pride all weekend while visiting with my wife (videos and photos soon!), so I missed this Drama concerning that erupted.

Ok.

Let us, again, all put on our hats and take a look at the situation here as I understand it.

Below is the video that kicked the beehive between Tesla defenders and detractors on "what really happened?".

This clearly chaotic video was taken from a larger drive sequence in which FSD Beta was active.

🧵👇

adamjcook, to random

Here is the Hard Truth about software.

If it…

Looks like this; and
Has apps like this; and
Has pop-up notifications like this; and
Has widgets like this; and
Has distracting color palettes like this; and
Has small font sizes like this; and
Entertains people like this…

it is unsafe.

Full stop.

I could care less what consumers want. Consumers cannot appreciate systems safety. Regulators and systems safety experts should be making the calls.

adamjcook, to fediverse

Which app (preferably for macOS) supports thread composing (I can write an entire thread "off-line" and then publish it all at once)?

I have tried @ivory and @MonaApp so far... neither seem to support it.

Killer feature from that I really need.

With support for image and video attachments.

adamjcook, to ChatGPT

Another day, another dangerous video.

You know, I have been following Tesla's FSD Beta program for a very long time.

Back around 2015 or so, the mantra was that the FSD Beta was on the cusp of an "AlphaGo" moment.

But, is old news now.

is white hot.

Let's explore why a system capable of partial driving automation (like FSD Beta) and automated driving systems more broadly are decidedly not at all like ChatGPT.

https://youtu.be/4zcqVc37Jcw

adamjcook, to random

Alright.

Here we have another clip showing some highly-questionable automated vehicle behavior (the automated vehicle proceeds through a marked crosswalk where a pedestrian has already entered).

Let's put our caps on and take a look here...

A FSD Beta-active Tesla vehicle is traveling along a two-lane, urban roadway at roughly 24 miles per hour. At about 3 seconds into the video, the automated vehicle encounters a marked pedestrian crosswalk with a sign in the middle of it that indicates that it is California State Law that vehicles yield to pedestrians in an active crosswalk. The FSD Beta-active vehicle does not apparently do so (or react much) while a pedestrian is nearly half-way through the crosswalk.

adamjcook, to random

Oh memories.

Taking a break from 's Hate Train on the Hellsite to recall this series of Tweets from a few years ago.

While under-appreciated then and now, the Tweet thread by Musk posted below contains an extremely damning admission and it displays the considerable blind spot associated with remotely updating systems without oversight.

Musk has no clue what he admitted to here, but systems safety experts do.

adamjcook, to random

Ok. So recently, had published an "Impact Report" which contained a slide presenting some "data" that their and products "enhance safety".

And one article and one Twitter thread caught my eye in scrutinizing these numbers.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2023/04/26/tesla-again-paints-a-very-misleading-story-with-their-crash-data/

https://twitter.com/NoahGoodall/status/1651323363099553793

While the analyses and arguments in this article and thread are not necessarily wrong, there are more fundamental issues here that need to be surfaced in my view... so let's take a look.

adamjcook, to twitter

Interesting.

It appears that is now "locked down" such that one cannot even view Tweets or user accounts without logging in first.

Not sure if this is an intentional change on Twitter's part or if they just broke something.

adamjcook, to twitter

So, if it was not the case before, now that seems to be walled off for good...

How can the and, say, The White House (as a two random examples) continue to remain solely on social media platforms that are inaccessible to millions of unregistered users?

Those exclusively on the , an open platform, are being actively denied public services, official policy announcements and timely emergency alerts.

Wondering if there is a legal argument here.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-unregistered-users-account-tweets

adamjcook, to random

Back in my hometown!

First time since 2018.

adamjcook, to random

At minimum, needs a train between the Detroit Metro Airport and Downtown.

Come on now.

This was last weekend.

Waited over 2 hours for a bus at the airport.

I am patient, but this should not happen.

Bus service cannot hope to (even remotely) satisfy a region the size of the Detroit Metro.

It simply cannot.

Not sure how many are coming in out-of-town for the this weekend, but the Draft next year is going to be a disaster from a transportation perspective.

adamjcook, to random

I have to say, it has really been a disappointing time under the #Biden Administration for #RoadwaySafety - after having so much promise initially.

I do not know what the issues are here, but President Biden should ask Secretary #Buttigieg for his resignation.

Sure, former Secretary Elaine Chao was ideologically worse than Buttigieg, but they are both virtually identical in ineffectiveness.

That is unacceptable.

Sad to say, but here we are.

adamjcook, to TeslaMotors

This is a lie. is lying here.

At no time, are vehicles capable of “driving themselves” - only capable of the illusion that they are, which Musk exploits.

This is a common Musk Lie, made in the interest of selling Tesla vehicles and pricey add-ons.

People have died under this lie and will continue to do so, completely avoidably.

Let’s explore the underlying foundations of this lie and why it is so dangerous.

🧵

adamjcook, to random

Story time, from long ago.

This is a story about competitiveness in the US.

About the Manufacturing USA initiative.

About the MxD innovation center in (formerly known as DMDII).

And, about my frustrations that have festered for some time.

Out of respect for some of the people that I know personally that were employed there (who I will not name), this is a story that I had kept to myself for some time.

But now it is time to share, for a variety of reasons.

adamjcook, to random

In , all week.

First blush… reminds me of a mini-.

It’s on the move though, just like Detroit.

More photos and videos soon.

adamjcook, (edited ) to ai

I will say it again...

I do not recall an open letter with thousands of prominent signatories, a hastily-assembled White House Task Force and a big Senate hearing for automated driving systems.

You know... systems that are masquerading as that have killed people and have the capacity to readily cause immediate injury and death.

We have an unregulated Wild West out there on that.

No, no.

Let's sound the alarm over a goddamned chatbot.

adamjcook, (edited ) to random

Hmm. Interesting article.

@samabuelsamid, who I generally agree with, offers some thoughts.

@mimsical, who I also generally agree with, is mentioned in passing.

And, well, I have typically agreed less with Timothy Lee's thoughts over the years (particularly on -related topics), but this article is reasonable enough.

But let's crack it open and take a look at a few things that I think are iffy.

🧵👇

https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-death-of-self-driving-cars-is

adamjcook, to animals

So... last year during June's heatwave, when my wife and I were getting ready to leave for , a tiny that was living under a nearby industrial trash compactor found us.

We cleaned him all up, took him to the vet and because we already have two babies of our own... my wife's co-worker who had recently lost her cat baby adopted him.

His new parents named him "Cheeto".

Here he is at his first vet checkup.

1.5 lbs.

5 weeks (est.)

adamjcook, to random

At some point, someone needs to do a investigative report on how many historic, vacant (but viable) buildings were demolished and condemned to surface parking lots in Downtown in the service of a shallow, one-time Super Bowl (2006) event…

adamjcook, to ai

So, a couple of things here.

Firstly, we seem to be in some sort of arms race in " safety statements" nowadays.

Or more like a race to the bottom.

The continued perpetuation of the actually harmful Train aside... what is even the point of this?

They did not even bother to write a letter.

Secondly, very hard to take this statement seriously given that personalities like , Sam Harris, Chris Anderson and Grimes have signed it.

https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk

adamjcook, (edited ) to threads

does not seemingly support on images at launch (h/t to @mmasnick's post on Threads pointing that out).

And that is pretty damn unacceptable.

adamjcook, to random

No, because "flying cars" have never remotely made financial sense - particularly with the concerns which are almost always hand-waved away by the startups.

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/manufacturing/does-detroit-city-airport-have-future-flying-cars

adamjcook, to tesla

Interesting moves in the changing space lately (in the US and in Canada).

It sure would have been nice for the US to mandate some open charging standard years ago, but it seems that everyone is coalescing around 's so-called NCAS "standard".

Right now, it seems to me that NCAS is not actually a standard, but rather, an open specification.

Hopefully, this gets on an independent standards track.

Closed standards are bad for consumers.

https://news.gm.com/newsroom.detail.html/Pages/news/us/en/2023/jun/0608-gm.html

adamjcook, to detroit

Oh. Cool!

Well. I missed the meeting. 🥴

But it looks like the three buildings next to the Harvard Square Centre Building (which is currently undergoing renovation into residential units) on Broadway Avenue might soon undergo their own "renovation".

That little area of could sure use a boost... and it looks like it just might be happening.

adamjcook, to random

One of the major misconceptions with systems is that they are an "AI".

But they are not.

They are systems.

Such systems carry additional burdens that are foreign to more consumer/business-level systems - in particular, the need to exhaustively quantify "the unseen" through objective analysis.

It is something that, most notably, fails to recognize with respect to their program, likely by design.

Let's explore two examples.

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